Photos US and South Korean Forces

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Two separate MASH surgical teams work on casualties suffered in the heavy fighting along the west-central front in Korea. 14th July 1952 (Getty Images)

 

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Colonel Rolf Kaijser of Karlstad, Sweden (right), Commanding Officer of the Swedish Hospital, Pusan, Korea, visiting patients of the United Nations forces at the hospital.

 

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Lt Marie Louise de Lille, a Belgian nurse, dresses the wounds of a Greek soldier, Anagno Stopoulos Kons, at No 4 US Field Hospital.

 

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Surgeon Commander Pratt surveys patients gathered outside the surgery at a tented hospital on the island of Peangnyong Do, off Korea.

 

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Park Chong Hee, a Korean school girl, presents flowers to Corporal Clarence E Shockley, 7th Cavalry Regiment, while Dr Louis Van Boomel, UN Civil Assistance Command, Colonel L B Hanson, Commanding Officer, 4th Field Hospital, EUSAK, and Mayor Huh Ok, of Taegu, look on at the 4th Field Hospital in Korea.

 

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Sergeant Robert Dianda (left) checks the medical record of Chinese prisoner of war Kung Tin Hsing, while Private First Class Buddy Foote (right), Pharmacist, checks the prisoner's respiration, at the 629th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, 8th US Army, near Chunchon, Korea.

 

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Dragoslav M Protitch, Principal Director of UN Department of Security Council Affairs, shakes hands with Sold Savim Sertoic, a Turkish soldier who is recovering from his wounds at the Swedish hospital in Pusan.

 

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Chaplain (Major) Julian S Ellenburg, Protestant Chaplain at the Tokyo Army Hospital, Japan, talks with Greek patients. Left to right: Private Panaciotis Neliotis, a Greek nurse, Private S Sakairi and Sergeant Kostas Kavcakis.

 

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Park Chong Hee, a Korean school girl, presents flowers to Cpl Clarence E Shockley, US 7th Cavalry Regt, while Dr Louis Van Boomel, UN Civil Assistance Command, Col LB Hanson, Commanding Officer, 4th Field Hospital, EUSAK, and Mayor Huh Ok, of Taegu, look on at the 4th Field Hospital in Korea. (IWM)

 

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Captain Herta H E Spatzker (right), nurse with the 22nd Evacuation Hospital, 8th US Army, presents a $300 contribution for a new children's hospital to Captain (Dr) Giulio J Barbero, surgeon at the 21st Evacuation Hospital, 8th Army. The new children's hospital was to be located near the Happy Mountain Orphanage, Pusan, Korea. (IWM)

Left to right: Dr Kim Chin Kyung, Director of the new hospital; Captain Barbero; Lee Sook Kyung, Chief Nurse of the Children's Hospital; and Captain Spatzker.

 

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Sgt Earl Chandler, 8138th US Army Unit Hospital Trains, gives emergency treatment to a Korean labourer in the supply car, Korea. (IWM)

 

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US Navy crewmen clear the flight deck of snow, before fresh operations. USS Essex, off the Korean coast. January 1952 (Getty Images)

 

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A 16-inch salvo from the USS Missouri at Chong Jin, Korea, in effort to cut Northern Korean communications. Chong Jin is only 39 miles from the border of China. 21st October 1950

 

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An F4U-4B Corsair of fighter Sqn VF-113 Stingers flies over US ships at Inchon, Korea, on 15 Sep 1950. VF-113 was assigned to Carrier Air Group Eleven (CVG-11) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea (CV-47). The pilot is James Victor Rowney, the operations and maintenance officer of CVG-11. The battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) is visible below the Corsair.

 

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A US Navy F2H-2 Banshee fighter of VF 172 Night Owls, Carrier Air Group (CvG) 5, being brought up to the flight deck of USS Essex (CV-9). Korean waters, 25th August 1951.

 

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A Grumman F9F-2 Panther of Fighter Sqn VF-71, US Navy, piloted by Lt RP Yeatman, has just fired the HVAR rockets under the wings (hence the smoke) and also dropped the left 113 kg (250 lb) bomb, visible just to the right of the centre of the bridge. Korea, November 1952.

Note: VF-71 was assigned to Carrier Air Group Seven (CVG-7) aboard the US aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31), which was deployed to Korea from 20th May 1952 to 8th January 1953. VF-71 had the tail code "L-1XX" during that deployment.

 

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US Marine Corps HRS-1 helicopters from Tspt Sqn HMR-161 launching from the US escort carrier USS Sicily (CVE-118) during Operation Marlex-5 off the west coast of Korea in the Inchon area, Korea. 1st September 1952. (IWM)

Note: This was the first time that Marine Corps landing forces had moved from ship to shore by helicopter. The HRS-1 nearest to the camera is USN BuNo 127798. Sicily´s Sikorsky HO3S plane guard helicopter is visible aft of the carrier.

 

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A US Navy F9F Panther attached to the USS Bon Homme Richard (CV 31) flies over Task Force 77. Off the coast of Korea,

Note: The aircraft carriers visible are the USS Bon Homme Richard, USS Essex (CV-9) and the USS Princeton.

 

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US Navy Corsair fighters prepare to take off from the deck of the USS PHILIPPINE SEA (CV-47) of Navy Task Force 77, operating off the southwest coast of Korea. September 1950.

 

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A patrol of 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment.