Photos US and South Korean Forces

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M26 Pershing tanks used in indirect fire support role

 

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Sikorsky H-5 performing aeromedical evacuation

 

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Douglas AD-4 Skyraider attack planes of U.S. Marine Corps attack squadron VMA-251 Thunderbolts at Pyongtaek airfield (K-6), South Korea. Although this unit only saw action in the last 2 weeks of the Korean War they nonetheless flew 310 combat sorties. Photo taken in the winter after the war.

 

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Wreckage of F-86A Sabre (FU-334 / 49-1334) after being bombed by Po-2 biplane on 17 June 1951

 

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A Lockheed F-80C-10-LO 'Shooting Star' of the 80th Fighter-bomber Squadron, 8th Fighter-Bomber Group

 

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Vought F4U-4B Corsairs of Marine fighter squadron VMF-214 Black Sheep on the escort carrier USS Sicily (CVE-118) in 1950.

 

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2nd Platoon, Easy-Two-Five, 1stMarDiv, August 1950, Pusan Perimeter, Sth Korea

 

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M4A3 Sherman with its weapons removed used as a loudspeaker tank to broadcast propaganda

 

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Demolition charges destroy Hungnam port facilities and remaining U.N. supplies at the conclusion of evacuation operations. The U.S. Navy high-speed transport USS Begor (APD-127) and a motor launch are standing by offshore. December 24, 1950.

 

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A 81mm mortar crew of the 5th RCT, 25th Inf Div, fire illum rounds in the Masan area. Clockwise: Cpl Orville Waldeman (St Clair Shores, MI) Pfc Carl Cannon (Kinsman, OH) Pfc Reginal Palmer (Roxbury, MA) and Lt James B. Moore Jr (Miami, FL) kneeling: Pfc Oakley Vanalstyn (Buffalo, NY)

Troops of the 24th Infantry Regiment move to the Masan battleground during the Battle of Haman. September 1950. Despite the desegregation of the U.S. armed forces in 1948 by Executive Order 9981, the 24th Infantry remained predominantly African–American.

 

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A B-26B Invader of the 8th Bomb Squadron, 3rd Bomb Group, over North Korea, circa February 1951. This aircraft was shot down by flak on February 17, 1951.

 

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USAF attacking railroads south of Wonsan on the eastern coast of North Korea (1950)

An M32B1A1 recovery vehicle backing up into a ditch after passing a bridge on the road to Hamhung. November 1950.

 

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1st Marine Division troops accompanied by an M26 Pershing tank during their breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in late 1950

 

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Aircraft carrier USS Leyte (CV-32) and the Gearing-class destroyer USS Henderson (DD-785) being refueled off Korea. Late 1950.

 

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An USAF F-80 attacks North Korean vehicles in the open. 1950

 

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A USMC M4A3 105 on Wŏlmi-do island, September 15th, 1950

 

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Vought F4U-4 Corsairs of VMA 312 on board the light carrier USS Bataan (CVL-29). Bataan deployed three times during the war, in 1951, 1952, and 1953. In total she earned 13 Battle Stars, 6 in World War II and 7 in Korea.

 

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Crew of an M24 tank along the Naktong River front. On the ground is Pfc. Rudolph Dotts, gunner (center); Pvt. Maynard Linaweaver, cannoneer; and on top is Pfc. Hugh Goodwin, tank commander. All are members of the 24th Reconnaissance, 24th Division. (August 1950)

 

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2nd Infantry Division elements move through a mountain pass south of Wonju, January 1951.

Private First Class Julias Van Den Stock of Company A, 32nd Regimental Combat Team, US 7th Infantry Division, with captured Chinese DP light machine gun and RPG-43 grenade on Hill 902, near Ip-Tong, Korea, 25 April 1951.

 

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GIs from the 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division bringing Chinese prisoners to the rear on Pork Chop Hill (Hill 255) near Sinhyeon-ri, South Korea on the 38th parallel sometime in 1953. The Chinese belong to either the 67th or 141st Divisions.