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“This is the best picture I made in Korea of civilians — a family running down stairs, a father holding a baby, tanks firing away. Those tanks are taking fire from North Koreans right down the street!”
Marine Capt. Francis “Ike” Fenton ponders his fate and the fate of his men after being told that his company is nearly out of ammunition, Korea, 1950 - DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN - Life Magazine
“Koreans huddle in the street amid rubble and debris after fighting in Seoul, September 1950.”
David Douglas Duncan, Korea, 1950
The retreat from the Changjin Reservoir.
A young boy leading an old, blind man past battered buildings during the Korean War. Photograph by John Dominis. Seoul, South Korea, March 1951.
U.N. forces fighting in the streets of Seoul during September, 1950.
“British Royal Marines Commandos, put ashore by a U.S. naval vessel deep in the heart of North Korea, plant demolition charges along an enemy rail track on April 13, 1951 near Songjin, South Korea during a daring daylight raid. About 100 yards of the vital Chinese Communist rail line were destroyed within a few miles of two enemy divisions.”
“Marine Sgt. William T. Hathaway of Danville, Virginia, looks over the wreckage of Hanjung, Korea, Dec. 20, 1950, before the withdrawal from that city by U.N. forces now compressed into the Hungnam beachhead in northeast Korea.”
“Two American soldiers line up a 3.5 rocket launcher bazooka along the battlefront somewhere in Korea.
July 24, 1950.
