Photos US and South Korean Forces

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US Marine Stretcher Bearers carry a wounded Marine from the front lines to a forward aid station, in Korea, circa August 1950.
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Elements of the 1st Marine Division cross the Han River near Haengju, during the advance from Inchonon on September 21, 1950.
VT(A)-4 Water Buffalo "Little Lulu" on the left and other LVT(A)-5s
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Members of the 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers receive gift parcels from home. Bren gunner Private Duncan Smith glances over his shoulder to make sure he is not left out of the distribution of parcels to his "B" Company friends. Presenting the parcels is Corporal Bob Kelly and from left to right are: Private Bob Grieve, Lance Corporal Arnold Bennett and Private Bill Stevenson. 1951-52
(Photo source - © IWM MH 31508)
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Marine Dwayne L. Boice (Kansas City), 3rd Battalion 5th US Marines, burns out a weapons emplacement.
North Korean gunpit, Wolmi-do island, Inchon.15 September 1950.
“After we got to Korea, I was a bazooka gunner (like a rocket launcher — knocks out tanks) and a flamer-thrower operator.” “They picked the littlest guy to carry the meanest weapons because they’re harder to hit, they make a smaller target. Your life expectancy for a flame-thrower operator was two minutes!” I asked if he knew that fact. He chuckled, “Nooo…not ‘til after I got hit! That’s a very dangerous position. That’s where I got hit – the first time in Inchon, I was carrying a flame-thrower. I didn’t use the bazooka over there at all, it was mainly the flame-thrower.” I asked if he chose to be a flame-thrower, he emphatically replied, “Hell no I didn’t! You don’t have a say-so. Unless you refuse – then you’ll be court-martialed. When I first got hit, I was hit in my left leg! It was very painful and it knocked me down, and when I got up, I felt something running down my leg, I wasn’t sure if it was urine or blood. Low and behold it was blood.
They got me aboard a ship and got me all patched up in September 1950. I was on the ship about week and a half when the ship went up to Won Son, up the Yalu River. By then winter set it, and by the time we got to where we wanted to go, the temperature was 20 to 30 below. That’s when I got hit again! It was around the first of December. That was a bad hit — that’s the one that knocked out two inches from my leg — and it was the same leg!”I was curious how it knocked out two inches from his leg. He explained, “I was hit by three machine gun bullets. The bottom bone and top bone of my leg were pulled together to mend — they were going to let it mend, grow back, break it again and put a metal plate in it — but by then I was in a Navy hospital in Great Lakes, Illinois. I was in a body cast for 10 months. It was ‘terrible! I was 20 years old and had nothing to do but read books. It was a spica cast that went from my waste all the way down my left leg and halfway down my right leg. I finally got to come home after 30 days, and then I was discharged.”
For both of his injuries that my father endured during the war, he received two separate purple hearts.
(By courtesy of his Korean adopted daughter MeeSun Boice)
Dwayne L. Boice, 81, of Kansas City, Kansas passed away February 22, 2012.
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"With her brother on the back a war weary Korean girl trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea. June 9,1951."
Maj R. V. Spencer, USAF. Keywords: Korean War. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
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Men of the 5th and 7th regiments, U.S. 1st Marine Division rest on the road during their withdrawal from the Chosin Reservoir area in North Korea, December 1950.
(Photo courtesy of National Archives And Records Administration)
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Three U.S. Marines, wearing full packs, fire from behind a barricade during the battle of Seoul, Korea on September 29, 1950.
On the front of the building overlooking the battleground are pictures of Premier Joseph Stalin and Kim Il Sung, premier and commander in chief of the North Korean Army.
The liberation of Seoul was celebrated with the return of South Korean President Syngman Rhee and U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur, appearing together at a noontime ceremony to mark the return of the government to the capital, which had been seized by the People's Army of North Korea in June.
General MacArthur declared to the crowd, "By the grace of a merciful Providence, our forces, fighting under the standard of that greatest home and inspiration of mankind, the United Nations, have liberated this ancient city of Seoul."; at the same time, choosing to liberate Seoul rather than cutting off the escape of the North Koreans from Pusan, allowed 30,000 enemy troops to flee back across the border.
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US Marines running past the body of an enemy soldier on the Korean Peninsula, September 1950.
Photographer - David Douglas Duncan
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The Christmas spirit is well in evidence on the Korean front as Seventh Division GIs spell out a snowy holiday message to the folks at home, Dec 1952.

 

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Three F9F-2 Panthers of Fighter Squadron 721, fly over the carrier USS 'Boxer' (CV-21) underway off Korea ca. August 1951

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Soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Division carry wounded comrades away from the front line at Heartbreak Ridge in 1951.
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22 June 1952 "Face of War." Private Heath Matthews (aged 19) of 'C' Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, awaiting medical aid after a night patrol near Hill 166. Heath Matthews enlisted in the Canadian Army Special Force for service in Korea shortly after the outbreak of war in 1950. He was 18 years old at the time. Private Matthews served in Korea with Charles Company, 1st Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment (1 RCR) during 1952 – 1953. While acting as a signaller, Heath Matthews participated in a company-sized fighting patrol on the night of 21 – 22 June 1952. The action was a raid against a Chinese position near Hill 166, west of the Jamestown Line. As the objective was neared the patrol was caught in a devastating enemy mortar barrage. Two Canadians were killed and several wounded. Hit in the face by shrapnel, Heath Matthews was one of the wounded. On the morning of 22 June as a wounded member of the Charles Company patrol waited outside a front line bunker to receive medical treatment, Sergeant Paul E. Tomelin, an army photographer of the No. 25 Canadian Public Relations Unit, snapped a highly evocative photo of this dazed and wounded soldier. Tomelin’s photograph would become the iconic picture of the Canadian involvement in the Korean War and would subsequently be dubbed as “The Face of War”. Of this now famous photograph one future reviewer would comment, “Among the hundreds of outstanding photographs in this presentation is one from the Korean conflict entitled The Face of War. Taken by Paul Tomelin, it’s a black and white portrait of a Canadian soldier just after a night raid on the enemy. Private Heath Matthews’ face is covered in blood as he awaits medical attention for his superficial lacerations. The blood, combined with the weary and astonished expression on the young soldier’s face, effectively portrays the terror of war. Looking at such a poignant image, one cannot help but feel a certain degree of admiration for the photographer himself.”

HEATH BOWNESS MATTHEWS, 1932 – 2013
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A U.S. Marine (right) orders captured North Koreans to keep their hands up on September 20, 1950. In the background is one of the tanks which came ashore in the assault at Inchon.

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American soldiers/marines take protection behind a stone wall on the Korean front near the Choyang River in North Korea in June of 1951.
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duck hunter camo in Korean war use less than WWII!,use in marine only?

 

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Members of the 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers receive gift parcels from home. Bren gunner Private Duncan Smith glances over his shoulder to make sure he is not left out of the distribution of parcels to his "B" Company friends. Presenting the parcels is Corporal Bob Kelly and from left to right are: Private Bob Grieve, Lance Corporal Arnold Bennett and Private Bill Stevenson. 1951-52
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No hero sleeves on display there. RSM must have them whipped!

 

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"Thousand yard stare"
Survivors of “B” Coy, 1 Royal Canadian Regiment.
(possibly after combat on Hill 355 - 40 kilometres north of Seoul, October 1952.
George Metcalf Archival Collection - Canadian War Museum - CWM 20020045-1759
(Colourised today by Doug)