Photos US and South Korean Forces

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Grumman F9F Panthers of VF-111 Sundowners on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain (CVA 39), Hong Kong harbor, 1953.

 

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F4U-4 Corsair fighter of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-212 aboard USS Badoeng Strait, off Korea, 1952

 

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M19 Twin 40mm Gun Motor Carriage with standard M28 1-ton ammunition trailer, Korea, summer 1950

 

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M-40 155mm GMCs of Battery B, 937th Field Artillery Battalion, providing fire support to U.S. Army 25th Infantry Division, Munema, Korea. 26 November, 1951

 

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June 1951, 3 soldiers of the US Army's 7th Infantry Division interview Korean civilians. Note on the M1 Carbine is a pylofoam cover used during World War II most famously during the D Day landings in Normandy France.

 

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The Army's 2nd Infantry Division upon arrival at Busan Korea late July 1950, This was the first American unit to directly reach the area from stateside after North Korean forces invaded and pushed UN forces back

 

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Willys jeep of the Ethiopian Kagnew battalion in Korea. c 1952/53.

 

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Two Canadian Snipers with scoped .303 Lee Enfield No 4s aim their rifles in Korea circa 1951.

 

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Soldiers with the US 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division in a dug-in position on a hill during the Korean War - early 1951
Note M1C Sniper, M1 Garands, M1/M2 Carbines, M1917 MG, M20 recoilless rifle, captured PPS-43 SMGs, and captured Mosin-Nagant carbine

 

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That's a great series of Korean war photos, thanks for posting!!

 

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USS Missouri BB-63 firing her 16” guns at positions near Chŏngjin North Korea, 39 miles from China's border, in an effort to cut North Korean communications - October 21, 1950
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USAF B-29 Superfortresses of the U.S. Far East Air Forces rain tons of high demolition bombs on a strategic military target of the Chinese Communists in North Korea on January 18, 1951

 

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A US sergeant is seen having a shoe shine by a South Korean boy after his arrival in the town of Pusan, 1950

 

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A F4U-4 Corsair flies over United States ships at Inchon, Korea, on 15 September 1950. The bombardment had ended while the landings were just getting underway. The battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) is visible below the Corsair.

 

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A burning T34-85, destroyed by US Marines, north of Inchon, Sept 1950

 

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'Long Toms' target enemy positions in Gangwon Province, Korea. May 1951

 

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F-86E tops up