Witnesses said that the prisoners were forced to dig their own trench graves before the slaughter. Looking on, at left, is Gordon Gammack, war correspondent of the Des Moines Register and Tribune.’
Photo by #JamesPringle (1918-1970)
#KoreanWar #Korea #PusanPerimeter #Taejon
Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches. David Douglas Duncan Papers and Photography Collection © David Douglas Duncan. Courtesy Harry Ransom Center. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/world/asia/korean-war-.html 20.5.20 ‘David Douglas Duncan was an American photojournalist, known for his dramatic combat photographs, as well as for his extensive domestic photography of Pablo Picasso and his wife Jacqueline.’ Wikipedia
Photograph by David Douglas Duncan (1916-2018 👉ALT)
Breakout from the Perimeter begins 16 Sept.
#KoreanWar #Korea #PusanPerimeter #blackandwhitephotography #photojournalism #DavidDouglasDuncan
In #SEPTEMBER 1950
‘Captain Ike Fenton, Commanding Officer of Baker Company, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Brigade, receives reports of dwindling supplies during the battle to secure No-Name Ridge along the #Naktong River, #Korea. September 1950.’
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#KoreanWar #PusanPerimeter
image from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/world/asia/korean-war-.html 20.5.20 ‘David Douglas Duncan was an American photojournalist, known for his dramatic combat photographs, as well as for his extensive domestic photography of Pablo Picasso and his wife Jacqueline.’ Wikipedia
In #SEPTEMBER 1950
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‘United States soldiers fighting to take the crest of a hill in September 1950’
Photograph by #DavidDouglasDuncan (1916-2018 👉ALT)
Breakout from the Perimeter begins 16 Sept.
#KoreanWar #Korea #PusanPerimeter #blackandwhitephotography #photojournalism
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In #SEPTEMBER 1950
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‘M24 Chaffee light tanks of the US Army's 25th Infantry Division wait for an assault of North Korean T-34-85 tanks at Masan.’ September 1950.
#KoreanWar #Korea #PusanPerimeter #USArmy #Masan #blackandwhitephotography
AP Photo http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/comments_remembering_the_korean_war_60.html
American and South Korean forces had been driven down to the south-eastern corner of the penninsula, the ‘Pusan Perimeter’.
#blackandwhitephotography #warphotography #Korea #KoreanWar #PusanPerimeter #Yongsan #NaktongRiver
#OTD in 1950
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‘A grief stricken American infantryman whose friend has been killed in action is comforted by another soldier. In the background a corpsman methodically fills out casualty tags, Haktong-ni area, Korea.’
#Korea #KoreanWar #PusanPerimeter #USArmy #HaktongNi
NARA FILE #: 111-SC-347020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Korean_civilians_fleeing_from_the_North_Korean_forces,_killed_when_caught_in_the_line_of_fire_during_night_attack_by_guerrilla_forces_near_Yongsan_HD-SN-99-03166.jpg
#OTD in 1950
‘Korean civilians fleeing from the North Korean forces, killed when caught in the line of fire during night attack by guerrilla forces near Yongsan’
Photo Cpl. Ingram, U.S. Army, August 25, 1950
#KoreanWar #Korea #PusanPerimeter #Yongsan
In #AUGUST 1950
Pershing and Sherman tanks of the 73rd Heavy Tank Battalion at the Pusan Docks, Korea
Ca. August 1950
#KoreanWar #Korea #tanks #blackandwhitephotography #Pusan #PusanPerimeter
image from http://www.koreanwaronline.com/arms/hill303.htm
NKPA prisoners taken in the days that followed were screened with the help of the survivors to identify the perpetrators.
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https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HA-SC-98-06983-Crew_of_M24_along_Naktong_River_front-Korean_war-17_Aug_1950.JPEG
All are members of the 24th Reconnaissance, 24th Division.’
Photo by ‘Sgt. Riley’, 17 August 1950. (NARA FILE#: 111-C-6061)
#KoreanWar #USArmy #tank #M24tank #SouthKorea #NaktongRiver #PusanPerimeter
http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/comments_remembering_the_korean_war_60.html 11.2.20
believed massing for an all-out assault on the American lines. 98 B-29's dropped more than 850 tons of bombs on the area.’ (AP Photo)
#KoreanWar #bomber #B29 #SouthKorea #NaktongRiver #PusanPerimeter #photography #blackandwhitephotography #warphotography
