Korean War, 1950-1953

Telephone equipment terminal and repeater vans at 71st Signal SV BN, General Headquarters, Far East Command, Tokyo, Japan. This photo was taken during the occupation of Japan, and the Korean War.

1st Lieutenant John Mellon, Tapentum, Pennsylvania, K Company, 32nd RCT, 7th Division, helps heavy mortar and artillery crews zero in enemy positions on hill north east of Cwae-Jaf, Korea, which his company is about to attack.

Corporal William Lindsey, Jr., Teaneck, New Jersey (left) and Corporal Roger D. Butler, Wellboro, Pennsylvania (right), members of the 24th Signal Company, 24th Infantry Division, string communication lines in captured village of Yangkyung, Korea.

Men of the 7th Signal Company, 7th Infantry Division check for broken communication lines south of Pyongyang, Korea.

Warming up before a stove in the 24th Division Medical Clearing Station after being returned to United States lines by Chinese Communists, former prisoners of war are, left to right: Private First Class Robert B. Duncan, Dayton, Ohio; Private First Class Joseph A. Collins, Selmer, North Carolina; Corporal Lawrence Buckland, Sidney, Australia; Lieutenant Angus MacDonald, Brisbane, Australia (both of the British 27th Brigade); and 1st Lieutenant George E. Dowrie, Brunswick, Georgia.

3rd BN, 187th RCT (ABRN) moves east of Pambol-Ni, Korea, 25 miles northeast of Wonju to head off flanking movement by enemy troops.

Platoon leader contacts headquarters by radio as elements of Company "B" 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division advance against the Chinese Communist enemy forces near Anyang-Ni, Korea.

Just outside the village of Anungmyan-Ni, eighteen miles northeast of Wonju, Korea, Corporal James E. Gilman, Oblong, Illinois, (left) and Sergeant Tony F. Haluska, Clifton, New Jersey, (right) both of the 3rd BN, 187th A/B RCT, 8th United States Army, search a Korean refugee for weapons or other contraband.

Men of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, watch an aircraft hit enemy positions on their flank with Napalm and strafing runs near Yangzi, Korea.

Corporal Angelo Soprano, Sayre, Pennsylvania, leans dangerously over cliff to fasten jumper. He is in the first platoon, A Company, 4th Signal Bn. They are rehabilitating lines from Tanyang to Chechon, Korea.