Photos From Korea to the Falkland Islands - colourised images of conflicts after World War II.
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Christmas comes to Yeung Pyung-Do. Sailors from HMAS CONDAMINE bring Christmas cheer and gifts for the orphans, December 1952.
Ships of the British Commonwealth Fleet adopted an orphanage on the island of Yeung Pyung Do off the enemy-held North Korean coast. Men from the fleet regularly go ashore with food, toys and sweets for the children.
In an Australian Station Intelligence Summary from February 1953, the following report was given:
"Officers and men of the ships patrolling the West Coast of Korea islands have "adopted" the orphanage on the island of Yeung Pyung Do, and chocolates, sweets, biscuits, toys and warm clothing are showered on the children.
H.M.A.S. CONDAMINE made a Christmas visit to the islands and presented the children with a monster "stocking". The sailors robbed their kitbags to give the children winter woollies and the "scran bag" was raided. Tinned fruit,
meat and cheese were purchased with money from the Welfare Fund. Scores of packets of biscuits, pounds of sweets and chocolates and toys were piled into a landing craft which deputised for the traditional reindeer sleigh.
If it was a red-bearded sailor (and not a white-haired Santa Claus) who gave 12 years old Tung Yeung Suk her doll, she did not care a bit, because little Tung and her 92 fellow-orphans know that it means fun and games, food and sweets when the "foreign" sailors come ashore ... the only real happiness she has known since her home and her parents vanished in [the Battle of] Ongjin in 1950.
Little Tung's story is a tragic one. Twice she has been hurt by war. Recently when she was playing on the beach of her island she picked up a new toy. Her excited cries brought her companions. They had great fun until the pin came out of the hand grenade ...
Tung was badly hurt. An S.0.S. was sent to CONDAMINE and the M.0. carried out an emergency operation in the small dressing station on the island. Tung's life was saved. Today she holds her arms out to the "doctor man" and smiles. She knows that she can walk and play again because of his skilful surgery.
Now CONDAMINE is considering a "toy per tot per trip" scheme. This will entail a small contribution from the ship's company to buy a toy for every child when the ship visits the island."
If you're in Australia ... one more sleep to go!
Image courtesy of the Imperial War Museum London
Ships of the British Commonwealth Fleet adopted an orphanage on the island of Yeung Pyung Do off the enemy-held North Korean coast. Men from the fleet regularly go ashore with food, toys and sweets for the children.
In an Australian Station Intelligence Summary from February 1953, the following report was given:
"Officers and men of the ships patrolling the West Coast of Korea islands have "adopted" the orphanage on the island of Yeung Pyung Do, and chocolates, sweets, biscuits, toys and warm clothing are showered on the children.
H.M.A.S. CONDAMINE made a Christmas visit to the islands and presented the children with a monster "stocking". The sailors robbed their kitbags to give the children winter woollies and the "scran bag" was raided. Tinned fruit,
meat and cheese were purchased with money from the Welfare Fund. Scores of packets of biscuits, pounds of sweets and chocolates and toys were piled into a landing craft which deputised for the traditional reindeer sleigh.
If it was a red-bearded sailor (and not a white-haired Santa Claus) who gave 12 years old Tung Yeung Suk her doll, she did not care a bit, because little Tung and her 92 fellow-orphans know that it means fun and games, food and sweets when the "foreign" sailors come ashore ... the only real happiness she has known since her home and her parents vanished in [the Battle of] Ongjin in 1950.
Little Tung's story is a tragic one. Twice she has been hurt by war. Recently when she was playing on the beach of her island she picked up a new toy. Her excited cries brought her companions. They had great fun until the pin came out of the hand grenade ...
Tung was badly hurt. An S.0.S. was sent to CONDAMINE and the M.0. carried out an emergency operation in the small dressing station on the island. Tung's life was saved. Today she holds her arms out to the "doctor man" and smiles. She knows that she can walk and play again because of his skilful surgery.
Now CONDAMINE is considering a "toy per tot per trip" scheme. This will entail a small contribution from the ship's company to buy a toy for every child when the ship visits the island."
If you're in Australia ... one more sleep to go!
Image courtesy of the Imperial War Museum London
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Private Henry Horneman of Tamworth, NSW, a member of C Company, the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), keeps an eye on the front line from a snow covered position at the Jamestown Line Area, Korea, 1 January 1953.
In early December 1952, 1RAR took over defences on Hill 355. The position had been poorly maintained and it took 1RAR ten days and 50 casualties to secure the area and regain control of the approaches. The battalion also supported the Royal Fusiliers in Operation Beat Up (25–26 November) by launching a diversionary attack on Hill 227.
The last action 1RAR engaged in during the war was Operation Fauna (11–12 December). The purpose of the operation was to capture a prisoner and destroy enemy defences. It did not achieve its main objective, but did succeed in destroying the enemy position code-named Flora. Nearly a third of the force became casualties, with 22 wounded and three missing. Operation Fauna shows the risks associated with prisoner-capturing operations, as they were rarely successful and often resulted in heavy casualties.
On 21 March 1953, 1RAR was relieved by 2RAR at Camp Casey, near Tongduchon, and returned to Australia later that month. The battalion returned to Korea in April of 1954, and was involved in training and border patrols. In March 1956, 1RAR ceased its operations in Korea and returned to Australia. (Text by AWM)
(Source: Australian War Memorial, HOBJ3883 - Photographer: Phillip Oliver Hobson)
(Colourised by Benjamin Thomas from Australia)
In early December 1952, 1RAR took over defences on Hill 355. The position had been poorly maintained and it took 1RAR ten days and 50 casualties to secure the area and regain control of the approaches. The battalion also supported the Royal Fusiliers in Operation Beat Up (25–26 November) by launching a diversionary attack on Hill 227.
The last action 1RAR engaged in during the war was Operation Fauna (11–12 December). The purpose of the operation was to capture a prisoner and destroy enemy defences. It did not achieve its main objective, but did succeed in destroying the enemy position code-named Flora. Nearly a third of the force became casualties, with 22 wounded and three missing. Operation Fauna shows the risks associated with prisoner-capturing operations, as they were rarely successful and often resulted in heavy casualties.
On 21 March 1953, 1RAR was relieved by 2RAR at Camp Casey, near Tongduchon, and returned to Australia later that month. The battalion returned to Korea in April of 1954, and was involved in training and border patrols. In March 1956, 1RAR ceased its operations in Korea and returned to Australia. (Text by AWM)
(Source: Australian War Memorial, HOBJ3883 - Photographer: Phillip Oliver Hobson)
(Colourised by Benjamin Thomas from Australia)
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Kate Webb - 1968
24 March 1943 – 13 May 2007
New Zealand-born Australian war correspondent for UPI and Agence France-Presse.
"Born Catherine Merrial Webb in Christchurch, New Zealand, Webb moved to Canberra, Australia, with her family while she was still a child. Her father, Leicester Chisholm Webb, was professor of political science at the Australian National University, and her mother, Caroline Webb, was active in women's organisations.Both her parents were killed when Kate was 18.
On 30 March 1958, at age 15, Catherine Webb was charged with the murder of Victoria Fenner, the adopted daughter of Frank Fenner in Canberra. She supplied a rifle and bullets to Fenner and was present when Fenner shot herself. After a Children's Court hearing the charge was dropped.
She graduated from the University of Melbourne, then left to work for the Sydney Daily Mirror. In 1967 she quit the paper and travelled to Vietnam to cover the escalating war. Webb was soon hired by UPI and earned a reputation as a hard-drinking, chain-smoking war correspondent: She was the first wire correspondent to reach the U.S. Embassy in Saigon during the Tet offensive.[With the death of Phnom Penh bureau chief Frank Frosch in 1970, Webb was selected to fill his position—she later claimed it was because she spoke French. In 1971 she made news herself when she was captured by North Vietnamese troops operating in Cambodia. Premature official reports claimed that a body discovered was Webb's, and The New York Times published an obituary. She emerged from captivity 23 days after she was captured, after having endured forced marches, interrogations, and malaria. She described her experiences in a book, On the Other Side, and in War Torn, a collection of reminiscences by women correspondents in the Vietnam War.
After her release from captivity and because of her sudden fame, UPI sent her to Washington DC as their show piece. Soon thereafter she threatened to resign if she did not get a "real job". She was reassigned to the Philippines as the UPI bureau chief in Manila.
After the war, she continued to work as a foreign correspondent for UPI and Agence France-Presse (AFP). She served as a correspondent in Iraq during the Gulf War, in Indonesia as Timor-Leste gained independence, and in South Korea, where she was the first to report the death of Kim Il Song. She also reported from Afghanistan, and later described an incident in Kabul as the most frightening in her career. Following the collapse of Mohammad Najibullah's communist regime, she was captured by a local warlord and brought to a hotel, where she was brutally beaten and dragged up a flight of stairs by her hair. She finally escaped with the help of two fellow journalists, and hid out on a window ledge in the freezing Afghan winter, while the warlord and his men searched the building for her.
Webb retired to the Hunter Region in 2001. She died of bowel cancer on 13 May 2007. AFP established the Kate Webb Journalism Award with a €3,000 to €5,000 prize, awarded annually to a correspondent or agency that best exemplified the spirit of Kate Webb. Webb was commemorated on an Australian postage stamp in 2017.
She is survived by a brother, Jeremy Webb, and a sister, Rachel Miller." - wikipedia
24 March 1943 – 13 May 2007
New Zealand-born Australian war correspondent for UPI and Agence France-Presse.
"Born Catherine Merrial Webb in Christchurch, New Zealand, Webb moved to Canberra, Australia, with her family while she was still a child. Her father, Leicester Chisholm Webb, was professor of political science at the Australian National University, and her mother, Caroline Webb, was active in women's organisations.Both her parents were killed when Kate was 18.
On 30 March 1958, at age 15, Catherine Webb was charged with the murder of Victoria Fenner, the adopted daughter of Frank Fenner in Canberra. She supplied a rifle and bullets to Fenner and was present when Fenner shot herself. After a Children's Court hearing the charge was dropped.
She graduated from the University of Melbourne, then left to work for the Sydney Daily Mirror. In 1967 she quit the paper and travelled to Vietnam to cover the escalating war. Webb was soon hired by UPI and earned a reputation as a hard-drinking, chain-smoking war correspondent: She was the first wire correspondent to reach the U.S. Embassy in Saigon during the Tet offensive.[With the death of Phnom Penh bureau chief Frank Frosch in 1970, Webb was selected to fill his position—she later claimed it was because she spoke French. In 1971 she made news herself when she was captured by North Vietnamese troops operating in Cambodia. Premature official reports claimed that a body discovered was Webb's, and The New York Times published an obituary. She emerged from captivity 23 days after she was captured, after having endured forced marches, interrogations, and malaria. She described her experiences in a book, On the Other Side, and in War Torn, a collection of reminiscences by women correspondents in the Vietnam War.
After her release from captivity and because of her sudden fame, UPI sent her to Washington DC as their show piece. Soon thereafter she threatened to resign if she did not get a "real job". She was reassigned to the Philippines as the UPI bureau chief in Manila.
After the war, she continued to work as a foreign correspondent for UPI and Agence France-Presse (AFP). She served as a correspondent in Iraq during the Gulf War, in Indonesia as Timor-Leste gained independence, and in South Korea, where she was the first to report the death of Kim Il Song. She also reported from Afghanistan, and later described an incident in Kabul as the most frightening in her career. Following the collapse of Mohammad Najibullah's communist regime, she was captured by a local warlord and brought to a hotel, where she was brutally beaten and dragged up a flight of stairs by her hair. She finally escaped with the help of two fellow journalists, and hid out on a window ledge in the freezing Afghan winter, while the warlord and his men searched the building for her.
Webb retired to the Hunter Region in 2001. She died of bowel cancer on 13 May 2007. AFP established the Kate Webb Journalism Award with a €3,000 to €5,000 prize, awarded annually to a correspondent or agency that best exemplified the spirit of Kate Webb. Webb was commemorated on an Australian postage stamp in 2017.
She is survived by a brother, Jeremy Webb, and a sister, Rachel Miller." - wikipedia
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Not only East Germany used the "Rain" pattern.
Also Czechoslovakia
(until the division into the Czech Republic and Slovakia)
and Poland
(in the 1960s, later replaced by wz. 68 "Mora", wz. 89 "Puma" and the currently used model wz. 93 "Pantera").
The "Rain" pattern was pointless, but a kind of compromise. Some Warsaw Pact countries were afraid to introduce "aggressive" camouflage patterns and created such half measures.
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