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Picture of the Day: North Korean Surrender

» by October 5th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (2)

A U.S. Marine tank follows a line of prisoners of war down a village street. September 26, 1950. S. Sgt. John Babyak, Jr. (Marine Corps)Via IMCOM Flickr Page.   more »

Picture of Day: Reenacting the Nakdong River Battle

» by September 29th, 2011 at 1:03 pm » Comments (16)

Soldiers dressed in the clothes of South Korea and North Korea engage in hand-to-hand fighting as they re-enact one of historical crucial battles of the 1950-53 Korean War along the ...more »

Picture of the Day: 61st Anniversary of the Incheon Landing

» by September 15th, 2011 at 12:48 pm » Comments (7)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="488" caption="Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez of the Marine Corps is shown scaling a seawall after landing on Red Beach. Minutes after this photo was taken, Lopez was killed ...more »

Picture of the Day: A Bitter Winter

» by September 14th, 2011 at 12:46 pm » Comments (2)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="385" caption="Bitter cold, Bitter fight. While units of the U.S. Far East Air Force's Combat Cargo Command made an all-out effort to aid embattled units of the ...more »

Picture of the Day: Orphan Airlift During the Korean War

» by September 13th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (10)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Airlift of Mercy. This truckload of children--part of 1,000 Korean orphans, being unloaded at an airfield in Korea for air evacuation by planes of the U.S. ...more »

Picture of the Day: Reconstructing Freedom Bridge During the Korean War

» by August 22nd, 2011 at 12:53 pm » Comments (1)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="404" caption="Members of Co "C", 84th Engineer Const Bn, US 8th Army, lower a 40 foot steel pile used for bent cap into water to be power ...more »

Picture of the Day: Reconstructing the Han River Bridge During the Korean War

» by August 21st, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (5)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Lt Gen James A. Van Fleet, CG US 8th Army, and LTC Barber, 453rd Eng Const Bn, 8th US Army, are amoung the first men riding ...more »

Picture of the Day: First Train Across the Han River

» by August 20th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Dr. Syngman Rhee, President, ROK, and Mrs. Rhee (foreground) with Non-commissioned officers of the 62nd Engineets and train crew members in front of the first locomotive ...more »

Korean War Veteran Receives His Medals After 60 Year Wait

» by August 13th, 2011 at 4:57 pm » Comments (6)

Congratulations to this gentlemen after being awarded his Korean War medals after all these years: More than half a century after he was wounded in the Korean War, Francisco Oliveras-Padilla wrapped ...more »

US Proposes Talks To Recover Korean War Remains In North Korea

» by August 8th, 2011 at 5:16 pm » Comments (8)

Here we go again with the remains of Korean War veterans in North Korea: The U.S. military has proposed talks with North Korea on resuming recovery of the remains of thousands ...more »

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