KOREAN WAR PHOTO-DOCUMENTARY Preface Click Thumbnail For Wider-Angle Annotated Photo (These annotated views will open in new windows, so as not to require re-loading of this page) B.L. Kortegaard

Fighting Vehicles

Navy KW Photos

Aussie KW Photos

Pusan

Inchon

KW TimeLine

China

Stalemate

PUSAN PERIMETER BATTLE South to the Naktong, North to theYalu - Roy E. Appleman Army Overview Version of this phase
Map of Korea Korean Terrain	Invasion Map NK Invades - 6/25/50	East Central Asia Map Pusan, 7/50, UN Entry port
Exhausted ROKs - 7/1/50	Lambs To The Slaughter	ROK wounded - 7/28/50
34th Infantry, 7/6/50	19th Infantry at Taepyong-ni	Bombed Out T34s
5th Marines Mount Out	ROKs Moving Up	155 Howitzers in Battery
Death From The Skies	Bowling Alley - 8/21/50	Marines at the Naktong
WIA, 8/50	Rescue under fire	Navy Corpsmen at work
Bombed Out T34's	Hill 99, 9/2/50	M-46 Patton - 90mm HV
T34 Burns from M-26 Hit	31 Days On The Line	M-24 Chaffees at Masan
Another Murdered GI	One of the Murderers?	More Murdered Civilians
Captured NK Weapons	Sanctuary for murderers?	76mm Self Propelled Guns

INVASION OF INCHON Other Korean War Photos of 1950 Army Overview Version of this phase
The Fighting Wantuck	Inchon - Assault on Wolmi-do	Marines mop up Wolmi
Wolmi-do Gunpit	Securing the causeway	Red Beach under fire
To A Posthumous MOH	Red Beach Captured	1st Marines Hit Blue Beach
MacArthur and a few Marines	T34s on the Road to Seoul	1st Marines take Yongdungpo
On the road to Seoul	Return to the Han, 9/50	Rescue Under Heavy Fire
Seoul, Captured NK Barricade	Rescue under sniper fire	Clearing a tunnel
Anti-Sniper Action	The Men	The Cost

CHINA STRIKES Task Force Faith Ebb and Flow - Billy C. Mossman Army Overview Version of this phase
ROKs cross the 38th	Wonsan Harbor, 9/50	China crosses the Yalu
British Troops in pursuit	Danish Hospital Ship	Airborne Trapped
Kumchon Pocket	Pyongyang, October 19	First into Hyesanjin
The Chongchon River	The Terrible Cost Continues	Wonsan, 10/26/50
Marine Pilot's Luck Ran Out	1st Phase Offensive	CCF124 faces 7th Marines
In The West	China Strikes	Unsan, 11/1
Army Prisoners	China Hits ROK 1stID	Marine Prisoners
CCF 38th Army Waits	CCF 42nd Army Infiltrates	CCF 39th Corps Waits
1stMarDiv Moves Into Chosin	Generals tour the Yalu	Home By Christmas
China Attacks, 11/25	American Armor Flees	Pursuit in the West
Yudam-ni, BattnAid	Hagaru-ri, East Hill	Marines Pull Back
Yudam-ni Rear Guard	Destroyed	Corsair Napalm Strike
CCF Recapture Pyongyang	North Korean Refugees	Negro Prisoners
3rd Div. Artillery Support	Stalled, 12/6/50	Koto-ri Breakout
Destroying Roadblock 12/50	Another Roadblock	Hungnam, Safety
Last Troops Evacuated	Warehouse Areas Destroyed	GoodBye

COUNTER-ATTACKS, STALEMATE, THE OUTPOST WAR Truce Tent and Fighting Front - Walter G. Hermes Army Overview Version of this phase
1/1/51 - The Fatal Step	China Captures SK Capitol	China crosses the Han
Thunderbolt	5th RCT Moves Toward Han	Hoengsong, 11-13 Feb
Chipyong-ni	Captured M46 Patton	Operation Killer
Operation Ripper	Seoul Retaken	Drive to the 38th
187th RCT at Munsan-ni	CCF 5th Campaign	Drive to trap 24th Infantry
After Retreat From Imjin	Inferno From The Air	CCF Cross the Chau
Air Power	A kind of victory	Fire Power
Truman opted to stop further pursuit and destruction of the CCF and NK armies in favor of truce negotiations which began July 10, 1951, resulting in a stalemate until they ended July 27, 1953. In retrospect, with the huge Chinese Manchurian reserves and the nuclear power of the USSR still menacing and untapped, this was probably a wise decision. But .... Half the total military casualties of the Korean War occurred while those talks dragged on.
Digger Photo-Documentary of an Aussie Infantryman Royal Australian Regiment, 1951-1953 The Australians were among the best fighting men in the UN forces. The above historical site is a rare portrayal of life and endurance along the MLR during those savage, wasted years.
Iron Triangle, July 3, 1951	The Punchbowl	Bloody Ridge, 9/51
Island Hopping	A Visit To The Hinge	Commonwealth POWs
CCF rebuilds	Underground Wall Of China	Glass against iron
Transfer at Sea	Wounded during patrol	A UN effort
Fate of a Patrol	Reviewing Assault Plan	Patrol Gearing Up
Punchbowl, February 1953	MiG Killers	Tank artillery
CCF MultiTube Rockets	Safe in Manchuria	Famous CCF Sniper
77 Squadron Meteors	"Die like a gentleman"	Crash Landing
Devastating arty support	White Horse Hill	Sniper Ridge
Marking bunkers	Babs, RAANC	Grave for UN prisoners
Vertical Envelopment	25 Infantry Division Bunkers	Bloody Nevada Cities
1951-1953 Summary of Armistice Negotiations Army Overview Version of this phase Observations by an Australian Platoon Leader
The dance begins Kaesong, July 8, 1951	UN POW "Olympics" Propaganda in the North	Koje-do POW Riots Chaos in the South
Cease Fire, At Last July 27, 1953
Golden Bond KW Fiction Example 1	Tech Rep Nerds at War	Souvenirs KW Fiction Example 2