Korean War Photography
530 photographs with background descriptions, of Korean War activities archived on CD-ROM. Photographs taken by photographers in the Army Signal Corps, Department of the Navy, Office of the Chief Signal Officer, United States Marine Corps, and the Department of the Air Force. Images are taken from color and black and white prints, negatives, and transparencies.
Chaplain Kenny Lynch conducts services north of Hwachon, Korea, for men of 31st Regiment.
June 9th, 1951. With her brother on her back a war weary Korean girl tiredly trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea.
Inchon Invasion, September 1950 First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, USMC, leads the 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines over the seawall on the northern side of Red Beach, as the second assault wave lands, 15 September 1950. Wooden scaling ladders are in use to facilitate disembarkation from the LCVP that brought these men to the shore. Lt. Lopez was killed in action within a few minutes, while assaulting a North Korean bunker.
U.S. Marines engaged in street fighting during the liberation of Seoul, circa late September 1950. Note M-1 rifles and Browning Automatic Rifles carried by the Marines, dead Koreans in the street, and M-4 "Sherman" tanks in the distance.
530 photographs with background descriptions, of Korean War activities archived on CD-ROM. Photographs taken by photographers in the Army Signal Corps, Department of the Navy, Office of the Chief Signal Officer, United States Marine Corps, and the Department of the Air Force. Images are taken from color and black and white prints, negatives, and transparencies.
Chaplain Kenny Lynch conducts services north of Hwachon, Korea, for men of 31st Regiment.
June 9th, 1951. With her brother on her back a war weary Korean girl tiredly trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea.
Inchon Invasion, September 1950 First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, USMC, leads the 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines over the seawall on the northern side of Red Beach, as the second assault wave lands, 15 September 1950. Wooden scaling ladders are in use to facilitate disembarkation from the LCVP that brought these men to the shore. Lt. Lopez was killed in action within a few minutes, while assaulting a North Korean bunker.
U.S. Marines engaged in street fighting during the liberation of Seoul, circa late September 1950. Note M-1 rifles and Browning Automatic Rifles carried by the Marines, dead Koreans in the street, and M-4 "Sherman" tanks in the distance.