Photos US and South Korean Forces

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C-21) CCF 79th or 80th Division troops in assault on 1st Btn 32nd Infantry Regiment.
-- Here the Chinese renewed their attack, swarming among the trucks, throwing white phosphorus grenades into vehicles loaded with wounded, setting some of them on fire. Lieutenant-Colonel Faith, hit again by rifle fire, died of his wounds.
*** Major Harvey Storms ***, the last commander of 3/31 Infantry and a respected and admired leader, was also killed. The remaining American rear-guard soldiers abandoned the truck convoy and attempted to escape individually, many crossing onto the ice of the reservoir.

 

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Servicemen working on ship newsletter aboard the USS Meigs. 1952.
Hanson A. Williams Jr.

 

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The arched Gate Four of an Eighth U.S. Army base in Korea shot against the clouds. 1952.
Hanson A. Williams Jr.

 

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A crew working on the engine of a C-46 Commando transport plane on an airstrip in Korea. 1952.
Hanson A. Williams, Jr.

 

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Infantrymen of 'C' Coy 1st Kagnew (Ethiopian) Inf Bn, with camouflaged vehicles move along a road in Korea. July 1951 (IWM)

 

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C-20) Marine Corsairs have just struck Chinese positions in the Chosin Reservoir area of northeast Korea with jellied gasoline napalm. Close air support was a key to the successful retreat to the sea.
-- All the rest of the day 1/32 moved under cover of Marine and Navy planes from VMF-212, VMF-214, VMF-312, VMF(N)-513, and Hedron-12. At the same time, the PLA 27th Corps committed the 241st Regiment from the 81st Division into the area. Thousands of enemy troops moving south made excellent targets. In addition to the cover afforded by F4U Corsair fighter-bombers, much-needed supplies were dropped by the Air Force Combat Cargo Command. At times, Capt. Stamford found himself directing both air drops from cargo planes and close support strikes over the same radio net. The air was filled with cargo planes, chutes, and agile Corsairs.

 

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Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, have a smoke while waiting for dusk to fall before joining a patrol into no-man's land at The Hook. Imperial War Museum.

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The guy in the centre having his ciggy lit is an embedded ROK soldier, it was a practice to embed ROK soldiers into every Commonwealth battalion

 

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Korean War. 1 January 1953. The USS New Jersey (BB-62) fires a salvo of 16 inch shells into an enemy troop concentration near Kaesong.

 

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Korean War. 1951. Soldiers of B Company, 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), crowd round a fire and cook flap jacks.

 

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Korean War. 16 April 1951. Soldiers of C Company, 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), moving on to Hill Salmon. Photo by Private Ian Robertson. [AWM P01813.517]

 

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USS Iowa BB-61 dropping anchor in San Francisco Bay after her recommissioning for service in the Korean War in 1951
LIFE Magazine Archives - Carl Mydans Photographer

 

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1st MARDIV General Oliver .P Smith and UN commander Douglas MacArthur at Inchon shortly after Operation Chromite.

 

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Members of the 55 Independent Squadron wait to board the Empire Windrush at Southampton, to fight in the Korean War, 1950.

 

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USS Saint Paul off Inchon, Korea. Late January 1951.

 

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First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, USMC, leads the 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines over the seawall on the northern side of Red Beach, as the second assault wave lands, 15 September 1950.
Moments later, while preparing to throw a hand grenade into a North Korean bunker, he was struck by automatic weapons fire in the chest and right shoulder, causing him to drop the activated device. Although seriously wounded, Lt. López crawled toward the grenade and unable to throw it because of his injuries, pulled it under his body to shield others from the blast. He was killed in the resulting explosion and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

 

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US Soldier with a Thompson M1928 with grip in Korea October 1951, This is not the usual M1A1s usually encountered by UN troops.

 

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Korean War. Hill Salmon. 17 April 1951. Members of C Company, 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR), mingle with helmeted soldiers of K Company, 19th Regimental Combat Team (RCT), 6th Republic of Korea (ROK) Infantry Division, after the arrival of the Koreans on Salmon to relieve the Australian troops. The ROKs abandoned the hill to Chinese forces when they attacked a few days later. Photo by Ian Robertson. [AWM P01813.535]

 

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A US soldier with Carbine slung over observes a recently killed Chinese soldier.

 

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Soldier of the 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in Korea.