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Crewmen use flight deck tractors with power brooms to sweep snow from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge (CV-45), during operations off Korea, circa early 1951. A Vought F4U-5N Corsair of Composite Squadron 3 (VC-3), Det. A "Blue Nemesis" is parked in the foreground.
Also visible in the photo is a Douglas AD-4N Skyraider of VC-4 Det.4 "Night Hecklers" and a Sikorsky HO3S-1 of Helicopter Utility Squadron 1 (HU-1), Det. A "Pacific Fleet Angels." These squadrons were assigned to Carrier Air Group 2 (CVG-2) aboard the Valley Forge for a deployment to Korea from December 6, 1950 to May 26, 1951.
Also visible in the photo is a Douglas AD-4N Skyraider of VC-4 Det.4 "Night Hecklers" and a Sikorsky HO3S-1 of Helicopter Utility Squadron 1 (HU-1), Det. A "Pacific Fleet Angels." These squadrons were assigned to Carrier Air Group 2 (CVG-2) aboard the Valley Forge for a deployment to Korea from December 6, 1950 to May 26, 1951.
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A U.S. Army artist's illustration of the Battle of Chipyong-ni
"In February of 1951, the 23d Infantry Combat Team of the 2d Infantry Division, with attached French and Dutch units, while moving forward to attack in advance of the Eighth Army, was cut off and surrounded by overwhelming forces of Chinese Reds in the narrow Korean valley of Chipyong-ni.
The Reds occupied the commanding ridges, while the American commander, Colonel Paul Freeman, isolated far in advance of the general battle line, used a ring of lower hills within the valley itself for his defensive perimeter. For more than three days in near freezing weather the defenders held these positions.
The action pictured is on the fourth day when an American armored unit broke through from the south. At this time the valiant 23d Infantry Combat Team smashed out of the perimeter at the lower end of the valley to break the encirclement, and with its units and most of its equipment intact, rejoined the Eighth Army.
General Matthew B. Ridgway in his official report to a Joint Session of Congress said of this action: "These American fighting men with their French comrades in arms measured up in every way to the battle conduct of the finest troops America or France has produced throughout their national existence."
"In February of 1951, the 23d Infantry Combat Team of the 2d Infantry Division, with attached French and Dutch units, while moving forward to attack in advance of the Eighth Army, was cut off and surrounded by overwhelming forces of Chinese Reds in the narrow Korean valley of Chipyong-ni.
The Reds occupied the commanding ridges, while the American commander, Colonel Paul Freeman, isolated far in advance of the general battle line, used a ring of lower hills within the valley itself for his defensive perimeter. For more than three days in near freezing weather the defenders held these positions.
The action pictured is on the fourth day when an American armored unit broke through from the south. At this time the valiant 23d Infantry Combat Team smashed out of the perimeter at the lower end of the valley to break the encirclement, and with its units and most of its equipment intact, rejoined the Eighth Army.
General Matthew B. Ridgway in his official report to a Joint Session of Congress said of this action: "These American fighting men with their French comrades in arms measured up in every way to the battle conduct of the finest troops America or France has produced throughout their national existence."
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Elements of the US 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion, part of the 2nd Infantry Division, fighting a rear-guard action at Kuni-ri, part of the Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River, November/December 1950
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Corporal Tony Viator of New Iberia, Louisiana, member of the Division Headquarters, 24th Infantry Division, waits for orders to board a C-47 plane bound for Korea at Ashiya Air Force Base in Japan, 1950.
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