Korean war pictures

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Posted: 8/8/2019 11:08:52 PM EDT

I was given my grandpas old slides from his time in Korea. This is my first time seeing them I'm currently in the process of scanning them. Anyway I thought I'd share with you guys. A few of the photos appear to be at a USO show I'm curious if anyone would know who the entertainers were? I'll update the thread as I scan more photos.

The uso show

Posted: 8/8/2019 11:11:59 PM EDT

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My grandpa and some dogs they adopted while they were there ( I remember him talking about the dogs a lot)

Posted: 8/8/2019 11:15:30 PM EDT

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Nice post, thanks :)

Posted: 8/8/2019 11:16:19 PM EDT

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Very cool. Keep em comin! Tagged

Posted: 8/8/2019 11:16:37 PM EDT

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My grandpas buddy not sure of his name but the dogs are at the bottom of the photo

One of my grandpa throwing snowballs at the camera

Posted: 8/8/2019 11:18:33 PM EDT

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Great pics, OP!

My Dad in Korea, Spring '51. He's on the left with the Thompson.

Guy far right WIA, Guy second from right KIA.

Posted: 8/8/2019 11:19:48 PM EDT

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Nice thread OP. I will have to look for some of my Grandfathers pics from Korea.

Posted: 8/8/2019 11:20:23 PM EDT

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I've got a butt load on slides that my dad took. F-86 pilot... None scanned though. I really need to get a slide scanner.

Posted: 8/8/2019 11:20:30 PM EDT

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Thanks for posting, OP.

Also, everyone else.

Pictures bring us back to a time.

Posted: 8/8/2019 11:21:42 PM EDT

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Great thread Op, thanks for sharing.

Posted: 8/8/2019 11:33:23 PM EDT

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Great pics, OP!

My Dad in Korea, Spring '51. He's on the left with the Thompson.

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Guy far right WIA, Guy second from right KIA.

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I like the look of the sargent on the right, with the helmet barely fitting his head

Posted: 8/8/2019 11:36:57 PM EDT

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Truly a brutal war, wish it could have turned out differently but at least South Korea stayed independent.

Posted: 8/8/2019 11:47:18 PM EDT

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Great pics OP,..My Dad in Korea

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Posted: 8/9/2019 12:37:49 AM EDT

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I've got a butt load on slides that my dad took. F-86 pilot... None scanned though. I really need to get a slide scanner.

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I'm using the epson v600 it was under 200 bucks and works great I've used it for 35mm negatives and slides.

Posted: 8/9/2019 12:40:26 AM EDT

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Thanks for posting up your photos guys

Here are a few more unfortunately I'm not sure of the location

Posted: 8/9/2019 12:42:50 AM EDT

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Why the hell has HBO not run a Korean War series like BoB and The pacific?

Posted: 8/9/2019 12:43:03 AM EDT

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Thanks for sharing OP. My father in law was found nearly starving by an American GI in Korea, who subsequently found him a place to live at a church, paid for his college, and then many years later brought my wife's family to America to live with them.

Posted: 8/9/2019 12:45:27 AM EDT

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Awesome!

Posted: 8/9/2019 12:58:21 AM EDT

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Thanks for posting up your photos guys

Here are a few more unfortunately I'm not sure of the location

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Possibly Pohang? Looks like steel mills in the background, USMC and possibly ROK Marines.

Posted: 8/9/2019 1:03:18 AM EDT

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Those are great photos!

Any sources for Korean War photos by unit? My father served on the front line in Korea from 1950-1951 in the 24th Infantry Division, 21st Regiment. Earlier he served with the 8th Army, 4th Regimental Combat Team in Washington state and Alaska. He enlisted at 16 with a fake baptismal certificate and wound up on front lines (and at an outpost) at 17. On Christmas, he was so close to the North Koreans and Chinese that he could see a Christmas Tree they decorated at night so that the GIs would be sad when the sun came up. He told me that the Koreans played Bing Crosby Christmas music over big loudspeakers, and shouted "GI go home, why are you here when your families are home celebrating Christmas?" He said many guys cracked up. Anyway, he lost many of his war pictures when his car was stolen in the 50s. I have some but I always wished I could find more somewhere out there. He passed away in 2015.

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:53:01 AM EDT

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Because killing commies is non-PC?

Posted: 8/9/2019 9:47:38 AM EDT

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thanks OP, my dad didn't go overseas to Korea because somebody found out he could type

Posted: 8/9/2019 9:53:36 AM EDT

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Would love to see more photos. An HBO series would be great.

I was there in ‘93-‘94 and the ghosts from the war were definitely still around.

Posted: 8/9/2019 9:57:15 AM EDT

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Thanks for sharing.

My father served during Korea. His unit was sent to Panama for jungle training in anticipation going into 'Nam. Thankfully we didn't intervene then.

Posted: 8/9/2019 1:00:17 PM EDT

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My grandpa was a Korean War veteran.

Never talked about it much.

As a young child you always want to hear about the heroic war stories so I asked a few times and never really got a good answer.

All he would say is that it was the coldest place he had ever been!

Found out after his death from my mother that he would wake up screaming in the middle of the night for years after coming back home.

Looking back now I wished he would have told me everything, but I completely understand him not wanting to relive the most horrible 18 months of his life.

Posted: 8/9/2019 1:14:39 PM EDT

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Great idea. I wish they would!

Posted: 8/9/2019 5:58:40 PM EDT

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A few more

I have a couple more I'll posted when I get home from work.

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:01:04 PM EDT

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These are great. Thanks for posting.

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:10:23 PM EDT

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What are you using to scan them?

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:15:29 PM EDT

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Those are great pictures OP

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:17:07 PM EDT

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I have a shoe box full of slides my uncle took when he was in Korea, 45th ID 1952-1953 iirc. Been meaning for years to get them scanned.

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:17:25 PM EDT

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Thanks for posting up your photos guys

Here are a few more unfortunately I'm not sure of the location

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/188534/img5037-1047427.jpg

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Branch of service flag checks out with everyone actually being in step...

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:17:58 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/9/2019 6:31:12 PM EDT

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Those are def interesting USMC photos, not seen any like that in color.

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:35:49 PM EDT

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My Father was in Korea in 53' Here's a couple of group pics. Air force .

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Posted: 8/9/2019 6:36:33 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/9/2019 6:40:53 PM EDT

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My dad.

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:45:02 PM EDT

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I well remember my Mother being very worried that Dad would be drafted and sent to Korea.He was just discharged from the Navy in '47.

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:47:06 PM EDT

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Epson v600 the can be had on Amazon for under 200 dollars. This is my first time scanning color slides but I've done hundreds of 35mm negatives and I have been very impressed the digital ice feature removes slot of the scratches and damage.

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:48:15 PM EDT

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Those look like Camp Pendleton. 99.9% sure.

Some of the parade photos are reversed. The US flag will be in the right side position in the color guard.

Great pictures though!

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:52:00 PM EDT

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There were a few from Pendleton in the group I'm not sure if its before or after he came back. I wasn't 100% sure where these were taken.

Posted: 8/9/2019 6:52:46 PM EDT

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Epson v600 the can be had on Amazon for under 200 dollars. This is my first time scanning color slides but I've done hundreds of 35mm negatives and I have been very impressed the digital ice feature removes slot of the scratches and damage.

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What are you using to scan them?

Epson v600 the can be had on Amazon for under 200 dollars. This is my first time scanning color slides but I've done hundreds of 35mm negatives and I have been very impressed the digital ice feature removes slot of the scratches and damage.

Epson v600

Posted: 8/9/2019 7:04:56 PM EDT

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My grandfather in what may have been Korea during the first few days of the war. No date/location to go with the photo, but "One of the last photos..." is written on the back. It's definitely a later picture, though. His facial structure really... filled out... during his time in Japan after WWII.

He was in B Battery, 52nd Field Artillery (105mm), 24th Infantry Division. He was killed July 16, 1950 in the gigantic clusterfuck that was The Battle of Taejon.

The 24th Infantry Division, based in Japan, was the first U.S. unit sent to Korea by MacArthur, arriving July 2-5 1950. They were ill-trained and ill-equipped for what they were about to encounter. While they accomplished their ultimate goal of slowing down the enemy at the time, it came at a cost.

Posted: 8/9/2019 7:17:42 PM EDT

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Gotta find the pics...
My great uncle Max was in Korea...
Family lore has it that he pretended to be a transvestite in order to get discharged... 'Hated the Army.

Go Mud Hens..!!

Posted: 8/9/2019 7:19:40 PM EDT

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My father was in Korea for most of the war.
He landed with the 1st Marine Div. at Inchon.
His job was the capture the port.
The he had to run the harbor.
He was there for 7 of the 10 campaigns.

USS Valley Forge

The port at high tide

The port at low tide

I’ve got a bunch more. But their all about daily life there.

It would have been my farther 100 Birthday this June.
But he passed away in 1990.

Ed

Posted: 8/9/2019 7:39:31 PM EDT

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I would love to see a mini-series about the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team's time in Korea.

The 187th was stationed in Japan from 1945 to 1949, when it redeployed to Camp Campbell, KY, assigned to the 11th ABN DIV. In August 1950, they began to deploy to Korea, arriving in September. On 20 OCT 50, they made the first combat parachute jump of the Korean War, when they jumped into Sukchon and Sunchon. They then made the second and final parachute jump of the war on 23 MAR 51 at Munsan-Ni. From June 51 to May 52, the 187th returned to Japan as a strategic reserve. They returned to Korea on 24 MAY 52 to help put down a POW revolt and stayed there until October, when it went back to Japan. In June of 53, the 187th redeployed to Korea and stayed there until 1955.

There were a number of famous (and infamous) members of the RCT to serve in Korea. Among them was GEN William Westmoreland, Albert Blithe, Ronald Spiers (you may remember Blithe and Spiers from Band of Brothers), Stephen "the Rifleman" Flemmi (right hand man of Whitey Bulger, the head of Boston's Winter Hill Gang), and three Medal of Honor winners (Lester Hammond, Jr., Rodolfo Hernandez, and Richard Wilson).

There is no doubt in my mind that a talented screenwriter could develop a mini-series based on the 187th in Korea.

Posted: 8/9/2019 8:02:58 PM EDT

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As did my dad. He spent 2 years at Newport News VA.

Posted: 8/9/2019 8:09:45 PM EDT

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Because it would be about fighting Communists, not "fascists."

Posted: 8/9/2019 8:09:52 PM EDT

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Ratings, for one thing. Just not enough interest among the general public. How many Korean War video games are out there, compared to WW2 and Vietnam? Same reason. Pissing off the Chinese is another reason.

A real shame, because I find the Korean War fascinating.