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History > 20th century > Cold War / холодная война > Korean War > Timeline in pictures > 1950-1953
Why Hasn’t the Korean War Ended? It’s Been 65 Years. Video The New York Times 24 April 2018
After six decades, the Korean War is technically still not over.
Here’s what happened – and why it still matters. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t06Rljkovtc
A grief stricken American infantryman whose friend has been killed in action is comforted by another soldier.
In the background a corpsman methodically fills out casualty tags, Haktong-ni area, Korea. August 28, 1950.
Sfc. Al Chang. (Army) U.S. Army Korea Media Center official Korean War online video archive 28 August 1950
(1950-08-28)
Source: U.S. Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KoreanWarFallenSoldier1.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War http://www.flickr.com/photos/imcomkorea/sets/72157607808414225/
A United States Marine with North Korean prisoners of war in 1953.
Photograph: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images
Rocket Man Knows Better NYT SEPT. 23, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/
Korean War
Date taken: 1952
Photographer: Michael Rougier Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/9bd30a5c6184a88b.html
Chung Eun-yong 1923-2014
Over the years Mr. Chung (...) amassed evidence that American troops had systematically killed more than 100, and possibly as many as 400, civilian refugees early in the Korean War near a railroad bridge outside the South Korean village of No Gun Ri.
He sent more than a dozen petitions to the American government demanding an apology and compensation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/
James Lamar Stone 1922-2012
Col. James L. Stone (...) as an Army platoon leader on a desolate hilltop facing overwhelming Chinese forces during the Korean War rallied his men, then stayed behind to cover their retreat despite being wounded three times, actions for which he earned the Medal of Honor http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/us/james-l-stone-medal-of-honor-recipient-dies-at-89.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/
A small South Korean child sits alone in the street, after elements of the 1st Marine Div. and South Korean Marines invaded the city of Inchon, in an offensive launched against the North Korean forces in that area.
September 16, 1950.
Pfc. Ronald L. Hancock. (Army)
NARA FILE #: 111-SC-348594
16 September 1950(1950-09-16)
Source U.S. Army (Reusing this image) PD-USGov-Military-Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KoreanWarDamage4.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War http://www.flickr.com/photos/imcomkorea/sets/72157607808414225/
With her brother on her back a war weary Korean girl tiredly trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea. June 9, 1951.
Maj. R.V. Spencer, UAF. (Navy) NARA FILE #: 080-G-429691 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1485 U.S. Army Korea Media Center official Korean War online image archive Cleared for public release. U.S. Army Korea - Installation Management Command
Date 9 June 1951(1951-06-09) http://www.flickr.com/photos/imcomkorea/sets/72157607808414225/
Author Maj. R.V. Spencer (Reusing this image) PD-USGov-Military http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/KoreanWarRefugeeWithBaby.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KoreanWarRefugeeWithBaby.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/imcomkorea/sets/72157607808414225/
Operation Area In Korea Ex-Communist guerrilla Nim Churl Jin, upon his return, after two years in the hills with guerrilla forces, is greeted by his old mother who clutches him while screaming "Is it a dream? You cannot be my son. My son is dead?," in rice field outside his fami
Location: Cholla-Namando, Korea (South)
Date taken: November 1952
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=3865670a81ab8c54
A Chinese soldier, killed by Marines of the 1st Marine Division in Korea during attack on Hill 1051, on Kari San Mountain
Source: US Archiv ARCWEB ARC Identifier: 520794 NARA National Archives and Records Administration]
Date: 05/23/1951
Author: N H McMasters (US Dept of Defense) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DeadchinesesoldierEdit.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
11 April 1951
MacArthur fired - Ridgway takes over
Time Covers - The 50S Time cover: 07-16-1951 of Matthew B. Ridgway.
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=13d7c69fcb4ce2f9
US President Harry S Truman dismisses General Douglas MacArthur as commander of United Nations and US forces in the Far East after disagreements over foreign policy in Korea. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/11/newsid_3708000/3708197.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/11/ http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0411.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/27/
22-25 April 1951
Battle of the Imjin River
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/david-cameron/8124946/
According to the South Korean government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
(...)
on Jan. 19, 1951, at least 51 villagers, including 16 children, were killed when U.S. planes napalmed Sansong, a village 160 kilometers, or 100 miles, southeast of Seoul.
A day later, it said, at least 167 villagers, more than half of them women, were burned to death or asphyxiated in Tanyang, 35 kilometers north of Sansong, when U.S. planes dropped napalm at the entrance of a cave filled with refugees. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/world/asia/21iht-incheon.1.14657938.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/
27 November and 13 December 1950
Battle of Chosin Reservoir
more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers swarmed far fewer American Marines and soldiers in subzero temperatures on treacherous terrain in one of the fiercest battles of the Korean War
(...)
American soldiers (were) engaged in hand-to-hand combat with Chinese soldiers sent by Mao Zedong to fortify the weak North Korean army.
The Battle of Chosin Reservoir also known as the Chosin Reservoir Campaign or the Changjin Lake Campaign was a decisive battle in the Korean War.
Shortly after the People's Republic of China entered the conflict, the People's Volunteer Army 9th Army infiltrated the northeastern part of North Korea and surprised the US X Corps at the Chosin Reservoir area.
A brutal 17 day battle in freezing weather soon followed.
In the period between 27 November and 13 December 1950, 30,000 United Nations (UN) troops (nicknamed "The Chosin Few") under the command of Major General Edward Almond were encircled by approximately 67,000 Chinese troops under the command of Song Shi-Lun.
Although Chinese troops managed to surround and outnumber the UN forces, the UN forces broke out of the encirclement while inflicting crippling losses on the Chinese.
The evacuation of the X Corps from the port of Hungnam marked the complete withdrawal of UN troops from North Korea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chosin_Reservoir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chosin_Reservoir
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/04/
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/27/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/
September 1950
China's intervention
In mid-September, General MacArthur brought off a masterstroke by landing two divisions 240km (150 miles) in the enemy rear at the port of Inchon.
Their communications cut, and under heavy aerial bombardment, the North Koreans broke and fled back north;
MacArthur ordered a hot pursuit which led across the 38th parallel and deep into North Korea.
As the victorious UN forces drew near to the Manchurian border, there were ominous signals from Peking that communist China would intervene to defend its territory.
In mid-October, MacArthur met President Harry Truman on Wake Island in their first encounter to assure him that a massive UN offensive was about to conclude the war victoriously by Christmas.
No sooner had this been launched in November than the Chinese unleashed their armies.
The UN forces recoiled in disorder and, by the new year, were defending a line well to the south of Seoul, the capital of South Korea. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/korea_hickey_01.shtml#two
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/korea_hickey_01.shtml#two
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/
Korean War Inchon invasion September 1950
U.S. Marines landing at Inchon as battle rages during Korean Civil War.
Location: Inchon, Korea
Date taken: 1950
Photographer: Hank Walker Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=e2ad4b4852402298
The Incheon landing helped UN troops recapture Seoul and drive back the North Koreans.
But the tide turned again when the Chinese entered the war. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/world/asia/21iht-incheon.1.14657938.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/15/newsid_3633000/3633301.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/world/asia/21iht-incheon.1.14657938.html
On Sept. 10, 1950, five days before the Incheon landing, 43 U.S. warplanes swarmed over Wolmi, dropping 93 napalm tanks to "burn out" its eastern slope, according to declassified U.S. military documents reviewed by South Korean government investigators. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/world/asia/21iht-incheon.1.14657938.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/world/asia/21iht-incheon.1.14657938.html
Mr. Desfor climbed a 50-foot-high section of a bombed bridge along the Taedong River in North Korea to photograph fleeing refugees.
"Mr. Desfor volunteered to cover the Korean War for the news service when the North invaded the South in June 1950.
He parachuted into North Korea with United States troops and retreated with them after forces from the North, joined by the Chinese, pushed south.
He was in a Jeep near the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, when he spotted a bridge along the Taedong River that had been bombed.
Thousands of refugees were lined up on the north bank waiting their turn to cross the river. “We came across this incredible sight,”
Mr. Desfor said in 1997 for an A.P. oral history. “All of these people who are literally crawling through these broken-down girders of the bridge.
They were in and out of it, on top, underneath, and just barely escaping the freezing water.”
“My hands got so cold I could barely trip the shutter on my camera,” he said. “I couldn’t even finish a full pack of film. It was just that cold.”"
Max Desfor, 104, War Photographer at Midcentury, Is Dead Mr. Desfor’s photo of hundreds of Korean War refugees crawling across a damaged bridge in 1950 helped win him a Pulitzer Prize. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NYT FEB. 21, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/
Related In this December 4, 1950 photo, residents from Pyongyang, North Korea, and refugees from other areas crawl perilously over shattered girders of the city's bridge, as they flee south across the Taedong River to escape the advance of Chinese Communist troops.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/02/
The war breaks out in June 1950 with a Communist invasion from the north
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/
Korean War 1950-1953
The Jack Benny Show in Korea with Errol Flynn.
Location: Korea
Date taken: July 1951
Photographer: Michael Rougier Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=f55e447c87ed10b5
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/korean-war http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/asia_pac/03/the_korean_war/html/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/korea_hickey_01.shtml https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1999/07/ENDICOTT/3116 https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/korean-conflict https://www.flickr.com/photos/imcomkorea/sets/72157607808414225/
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/25/
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/us/ola-l-mize-korean-war-hero-dies-at-82.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/opinion/25KoreaIntro.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/world/asia/21iht-incheon.1.14657938.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/books/review/Frankel-t.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1950/jun/26/northkorea1 https://www.theguardian.com/world/1950/jun/26/northkorea
General Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
Time Covers - The 50S TIME cover 07-10-1950 General Douglas MacArthur.
Date taken: July 10, 1950
Photographer: Carl Mydans Life Images
Inchon Landing, Korea
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, on the bridge of flagship U.S.S. Mount McKinley, watching his X Corps (two regiments of the 1st Marine Division) making assault landing on beachhead.
Location: Inchon, Korea (South) Date taken: September 1950
Photographer: Carl Mydans Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=e4e13c0c122e6c1d
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/11/
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0708.html
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0411.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/world/asia/21iht-incheon.1.14657938.html
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Margaret Bourke-White USA 1904-1971
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Martin Saxon Russ 1931-2010 > “The Last Parallel: A Marine’s War Journal” https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/world/10russ.html
Boston Globe > Big Picture Remembering the Korean War, 60 years ago June 23, 2010 http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/remembering_the_korean_war_60.html
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