United States Marine hands out candy to large group of Korean children, during Korean War. A Korean boy fills canteen of marine. Two long lines of U.S. Marines come along side of the road with weapons slung over shoulders. A North Korean in white dress comes in opposite direction from the troops. Marines talk to North Korean children. Marines rest along side of the road. Korean children on the road. Korean people wave at a U.S. flag. A Korean child with U.S. flag. Koreans carry causalities on the stretchers. Marine troops and jeep move along road. Dead Koreans lie on the ground.
Buildings on the sides of Kimpo airfield in Korea, during Korean War. Airfield in the background. U.S. aircraft F4U Corsair taxis with two auxiliary tanks. F4U Corsair parked. Pilot prepares to get out of the cockpit. Men stand on wing of F4U. Group of Marine officers including a two star General. General shakes hands with pilot.
United States Marines walk through a Korean village, during Korean War. Several Marines rest. Parked vehicles on the sides of a street. Marines talk to a Korean. Rifles slung over the shoulders of Marines. Quonset huts and village houses. Plane flies overhead. Telegraph poles and wires in the foreground. Sign reads 'Greater Los Angeles Press Club, Kimpo Branch, Main branch 8000 miles'. Marines walk through swamps. Long line of Marines advances along the roads. Mountains in the background.
United States Marines walk through a Korean village. Vehicles and Marines with weapons slung over their shoulders advance along roads. Mountains in the background. Marine dungarees fly on a flagpole. Marines in wooden hut and several marines rest along a road. Marine talks to a foreign soldier. Marines on a truck move behind a barbed wire fence. Trucks parked on the sides of road. Marines in a dug out. Clothes hang on wires. Marines look over motor of jeep and 32 Caliber automatic. Korean civilian sorts out clothes in yard. A sign reads ' Restricted area, keep out'. Koreans sit in a yard. Marines with weapon stand around.
On Feb. 12 and 13, 1951, elements of the U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Division, including 38th Infantry Regiment, suffered severe losses in combat with superior Chinese forces, near Hoengsong,during the Korean War. Photos shot three weeks later show the carnage on a frozen battleground. Remnants of a destroyed U.S. field piece are surrounded by dead U.S. Army soldiers frozen on snow-covered ground. A severely damaged U.S. halftrack sits in the dirt. An unidentified jumble of burned out war machinery. Damaged 20mm dual mount anti-aircraft guns. U.S. Marines, of the 7th Regiment, in full field gear, entering the area for the first time since the February battle. They march over a snow-covered road, past remnants of the U.S. Army convoy that was fighting its way out of the area besieged by Chinese forces on all sides. A destroyed U.S. Army truck. Sign next to wreckage reads:"38th I.FL Co CP." A dead American soldier frozen in a rice paddy. Smoke rising from Korean village buildings burning in background, above terraced landscape. More views of wrecked equipment and fallen soldiers. A mountain pass in the background. A destroyed truck. Suddenly black smoke starts rising in the background. A U.S. Marine standing near an M46 Patton tank. More debris and destroyed trucks.
Two United States Military Police (MP) men with weapons in sling arms in Korea. They stand by the side of a road. MPs come out of the tents. MPs talk with the U.S. Marines. MPs get into a jeep. A South Korean translator speaks into a microphone so that his voice is carried to a village. Mountains in the background. (Korean War)
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