Posted on 06/26/2007 2:29:38 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
New Unseen Pictures of Korean War Published |
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Novelist Park Do, who also published the first two volumes and “100 Scenes of the Korean War that Made Me Cry”, picked the photos from documents in the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. They are published in Korea for the first time.
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great stuff!
Nice pics! It’s funny that the captured DPRK troops seem happy to be surrendering, and the U.S. soldier is giving them a thumbs up. I wonder if they were South Koreans that got impressed into the North Korean Army during the North’s invasion.
Great Post! Bookmarked.
Get a bosun’s mate on the port bow of the LST. Jeeze.
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Thanks. I watched Tae Guk Gi this weekend for the first time. If any of you have not seen it, it is a great story and super cinematography.
Does anybody know a good book on the Korean War as to way we(UN Coalition)didn’t win? Little is every said of this war, but I always found it odd that the victors(minus Red Army) of WWII couldn’t defeat North Korea and it’s Chinese Allies.
Very creative.
A+
Just google “forgotten war” and you’ll find a wealth of information.
As to why “...the victors(minus Red Army) of WWII couldn’t defeat North Korea and it’s Chinese Allies”, the reasons are legion...and they have all to do with politics and little to do with military capabilities.
You should send it to Wayne.
“and little to do with military capabilities.”
That is what I figured and why I am dumbfounded. I assumed the Brits and ANZACs were exhausted after WWII, but the US was still primed. After getting better fighters in the war and taking control of the airspace, one would think we could of taken over. I guess we did, but politically underestimated the Chinese involvement and will power to see the NK regime saved?
Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfied): [incensed] All right. I’ll say it. ‘Cause Truman was too much of a p*ssy to let MacArthur go in there [shouts] and blow out those commie bastards!
Professor Terguson (Sam Kinison): Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I’m gonna be watching you.
“...politically underestimated the Chinese involvement and will power to see the NK regime saved?”
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IMO, and I was only a kid at the time, it was more a fear of the war spreading to involve the USSR. This was (again IMO)the start of DC micro-managing our wars...a practice that continues to today.
These can’t be real, I didn’t see the “Looter Guy”.
It is true that Britain was active in promoting ceasefire deal with N. Korea and China.
That just wrong on so many level MONK ROFL
OMG that my fav line in Back to School ROFL
That picture is obviously a fake, Colonel Flagg was then working as a showgirl at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.
Loved that movie
One of my Dad’s job in Korea was to photograph NK attrocities for the US Army. At one point, he mailed home a box of negatives and told my mother to not open them, but to put them in their attic. Since my mother was living with her parents, my grandfather opened the box and looked at the negatives.
Seeing what they were, and knowing he shouldnt have sent them home—he destroyed them.
What i would give to find them now. Unfortunately, all that we found when my Dad died was old negatives of the CIC Christmas party. My mother would look at the photos and point to a guy—tell a story about one of his undercover things, shake her head..and move away for a while. Too many bad memories I guess.
I am sure lots of good stories went with my dad. He kept his mouth shut, right til the end. I did ask him if he knew anything about UFOs....he just laughed.
Perfect quote!
We won a stalemate on the battle field, and could have driven north again, after the Chinese advance was stopped. The question was, "where do we stop?"
Korea widens out as you go North. The entire Chinese/Russian border is three or four times as long as the lines we held across the middle of the peninsula in the summer of 1951.
Even if we did go to the border, what then? China wasn't going to quit just because we were on the Chinese border. So, do we invade China? How many Army Corps would we need to do that? China is a big place, and a lot of Chinese who maybe didn't love the Communists would fight very hard if a Western Army invaded.
Will Russia stand by and do nothing while a powerful US Army crushes Communist China? How many more Army Corps will we need in Asia, if Russia directly intervened? How many Army Corps will we need in Europe to hold the Russians back if we get in a war with them? Will the war go nuclear? The Russians had the bomb by then, even if their delivery systems were scant.
Our choices in 1951 were: (1) Begin WWIII, with a WWII level of commitment and the possibility of a nuclear Armageddon, or (2) Draw a line in the sand, or rather the rocky hills of Korea, tell the Chinese they weren't going any further, and allow them to suffer enough tens of thousand of casualties, against our superior artillery and air power, that they agreed to quit fighting, and leave the line where we drew it.
It was controversial in some circles, but we chose option 2.
I never stated invading China should of been an objective and would not have advocated it. I would think fighting for a united Korea if it was feasible. I was curious why it was not possible.
BUMP
I can tell you where that LST (Landing Ship, Tank) in picture #4 was built. Evansville, Indiana. Over 1000 of them were. We’ve got one of the last fully functional LST’s on display here.
“......victors of WWII couldn’t defeat N. Korea”.
Truman had a leash on the Military in what he called a “Police Action”. There was no plan to “win” the War ala WWII. The War could have been won, just as Vietnam could have been won.
I can recommend a stunning book that explains the sheer guts, intelligence and preserverance of the US fighting man: ‘Breakout’ by Martin Russ.
Read it.
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