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14. A Corsair shepherds part of the armada assembled for the Inchon
invasion on September 15, 1950, the world’s last great amphibious
landing. (U.S. Navy photo.)
16. Four LSTs unload on the beach at Inchon as marines gather equipment to
move rapidly inland on September 15, 1950. Landing ships were stuck in the
deep mud flats between one high tide and the next. (U.S. Navy photo.)
17. The commander of the 1st Marine Division, Major General Oliver P. Smith
(left), discussing action immediately after Inchon landing, September 15,
1950, with his boss, army Major General Edward M. Almond, X Corps
commander. At right is Major General Field Harris, commander of the marine
air wing that provided close support to attacking units. (Defense Department
photo, Marine Corps.)
18. General Douglas MacArthur (in leather jacket) and an entourage of press
and brass examine bodies of North Korean soldiers at advanced
marine positions east of Inchon on September 17, 1950. The marine
in camouflage helmet holds a Russian-made submachine gun known
to Americans as a burp gun. (U.S. Army photo.)
20. A marine infantryman keeps cover as he looks over the Han river
valley near Seoul four days after the flanking movement against
Inchon. (U.S. Navy photo.)
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22. A marine tank supports South Korean soldiers guarding North Korean
prisoners captured in the assault on Seoul, September, 1950. (U.S. Marine
Corps photo.)
23. U.S. 7th Division infantry wait as an army M4A3 Sherman tank clears
a gap in a barricade during the street-by-street North Korean defense of
Seoul in September, 1950. (U.S. Army photo.)
24. Breakout from the Pusan Perimeter: Koreans move back to their homes
at Waegwan as U.S. infantrymen advance after the fleeing North Koreans.
Soldier in foreground is carrying a Browning Automatic Rifle. (U.S. Army
photo.)
25. The legacy of war: 1st Cavalry Division troops move on north in
the fall of 1950, leaving a shattered Korean village behind. (U.S.
Army photo.)
26. When a single vehicle moved on one of the narrow dirt roads that
served as practically the only arteries in Korea, it usually raised a
column of dust. When convoys such as this passed with artillery prime
movers and trucks, the dust cloud could be choking. (U.S. Army
photo.)
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36. Marines in the retreat from the Changjin (Chosin) reservoir halt
while leading elements clear a Chinese roadblock. (Defense
Department photo.)
38. The marine and army retreat from the Changjin (Chosin) reservoir in
December, 1950, occurred in temperatures around zero degrees Fahrenheit.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo.)
39. Marines reclaimed all their dead on the retreat from Changjin (Chosin)
reservoir. Infiltrating Chinese soldiers stripped clothing from some of the
bodies. (U.S. Marine Corps photo.)
40. This sixteen-foot hole was blown by Chinese soldiers in the single road
from Changjin (Chosin) reservoir to the sea. Bridge sections dropped by air
permitted this gap to be spanned and men and equipment to get out. (U.S.
Marine Corps photo.)
41. These are some of the 385 able-bodied survivors of the 2,500 army 7th
Division men caught in a series of Chinese ambushes along the eastern shore
of the Changjin (Chosin) reservoir in late November, 1950. (U.S. Marine
Corps photo.)
45. Infantry of the 19th Regiment, 24th Division, retreat ten miles
south of Seoul on January 3, 1951. (U.S. Army photo.)
46. An American F-80 jet attacks North Korean vehicles in the open.
The F-80 was armed with six .50-caliber machine guns and could
carry rockets and bombs. (U.S. Air Force photo.)
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50. Infantry of the 25th Division advance in central Korea in late March, 1951.
(U.S. Army photo.)
52. Chinese soldiers captured near Hwachon reservoir in central Korea await
shipment at 24th Division headquarters. (U.S. Army photo.)
55. A battery of 155mm Long Tom rifles fire north of Seoul in May,
1951, as United Nations troops move up behind withdrawing
Chinese. (U.S. Army photo.)
58. To protect against American artillery fire and air attacks, the
Chinese and North Koreans created deep underground tunnels,
rooms and bunkers nearly impervious to all but direct hits by heavy
-caliber weapons. These Chinese soldiers are armed with “potato
masher” grenades. (Eastphoto.)
59. An American F-80 Shooting Star stands on its wing tip in June,
1951, to avoid smoke from an earlier aerial attack against a
communist-held hilltop. (U.S. Air Force photo.)
60. Men of the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division, climb a steep
slope on Bloody Ridge on September 5, 1951. This regiment
suffered severe casualties in this and the subsequent Heartbreak
Ridge battles. (U.S. Army photo.)
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68. A Fifth Air Force F-51 Mustang drops napalm jellied gasoline
tanks on an industrial target in North Korea in August, 1951. (U.S.
Air Force photo.)
69. As the Korean War went on, American air power methodically
demolished virtually everything in North Korea having any military
significance whatsoever. Here supply warehouses at the east-coast
port of Wonsan are bombed in July, 1951.
72. General Mark W. Clark, Far East commander, signs the Korean
armistice agreement on July 27, 1953, after two years of
negotiation, during which hundreds of thousands of men were
killed and wounded in continued hostilities. (U.S. Navy photo.)
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