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Label Text This image was taken by a photojournalist working under the employ of the Associated Press, a US news agency founded in 1846 and still in operation. These photographers endeavored to take in-focus, direct, and straightforward illustrations of the war that would clearly communicate important events with the American public. Because the Korean War occurred before the advent of television news, it was the last American war that Americans received almost entirely through photos printed in newspapers and magazines.
DimensionsSheet: 10 x 8 1/8 in. (25.4 x 20.6 cm)
Image: 8 1/8 x 7 1/4 in. (20.6 x 18.4 cm)
Accession Number 2025.175
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsMD-KOR-012. $2,000 (verso u,l graphite) 182/ (verso l,l graphite)
Marks(SE4-AUG.22) BATTLE CASUALTY - An unidentified U.S. Marine is aided down slope by two buddies after he and four others were injured by enemy mortar hit on crest of ridge in Naktong River sector of Korean front. (APWirephoto) (jdc30345stf-md) 1950 (l,c printed in black ink)
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Battle Casualty: An unidentified United States Marine is aided down slope by two buddies after he and four others were injured by enemy mortar hit on crest of ridge in Naktong River sector of Korean forest, August 22, 1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
This North Korean prisoner makes no bones about his joy at being captured with a whole skin. The smiling red was taken by United States Marines near Kimpo airfield north of Seoul, September 22, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Eighth Army Headquarters: Korea: Performing a feat virtually unparalleled in military history, twelve helicopters airlifted a United States Marine battalion of about 1,000 troops (0ctober 11) to Korea’s east-central front where American tank columns drove deep into Red territory on both sides of “Heartbreak Ridge.” Marines are pictured here alighting from one of the helicopters shortly after landing, October 16, 1951
1951
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sgt. Ralph Kilpatrick - Soldier Behind North Korea Lines for 77 Days: Taejon, South Korea: An army mess sergeant was the hero of the 24th Division when he returned from 77 death-despairing days behind communist lines. Ralph Kilpatrick, of Phoebus, Virginia, came out of the once-held enemy hills to his buddies in the 19th Infantry Regiment in good health with a harrowing story of grimly hanging to life in enemy-saturated territory. Kilpatrick is pictured as he received a medical checkup from Lieutenant Alfred J. Grose, of Rochester, New York, October 4, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
A detachment of United States marines dig in on side of hill, relax, during lull in fighting. South Korean forces were reported fighting deep inside the 38th Parallel, October 3, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: First American battle casualties receive first aid after being wounded in the fighting at the Korean battle front. These men were evacuated by train and plane to hospitals in rear, July 9, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Directs Tank Landing: Lieutenant Adlai Stevenson Jr. Liaison Officer of the First Marine Regiment (right), directs tan landing via telephone on the beachhead where the leathernecks’ simulated assault operations were held. Reinforced regiments of leathernecks including the First, splashed ashore at an East Coast fishing village of South Korea May 3, in the first phase of the Marine’s largest amphibious training exercise since the end of the Korean War. Marine at left unidentified, May 6, 1954
1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Marines Move on Seoul: United States Marine tanks move up along railroad tracks past wrecked trains in the outskirts of Seoul. Note wrecked bridge across the Han river in the background, September 22, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Action at the Pentagon: Three United States marshals, one swinging a night stick, down an antiwar demonstrator who tried to break through security lines today at the Pentagon. Other marshals hustle off another demonstrator at right. In background are military police, October 21, 1967
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Near Taegu, Korea: South Korean soldiers receive bayonet instruction from members of the United States 7th Cavalry between battles against the North Korean forces. Free time available is spent in this fashion to help make the South Korean a better soldier for combat, August 30, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Father Daniel Berrigan (right) and William M. Kunstler of New York City, defense lawyer, talked with newsmen after Berrigan and eight other Catholics were sentenced to 2 and 3 1/2 years in prison Friday. They were convicted of burning selective service records to protest the VIetnam war. Kunstler said he was making an immediate appeal to the United States 4th circuit court of appeals, November 9, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Rough Riders Aboard A Captured Russ Truck: there’s nothing like a joyride on a captured Russian truck. Here, GIs of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division happily waved their own and captured enemy rifles as they rode atop a seized Russian truck in the Shau Valley in the northern part of South Vietnam. Other GIs on road gave them the “thumbs up” sign in celebration. The soldiers found this truck and three others in an enemy cache of assorted weapons while on Operation Delaware which seeks to invade the A Shau Valley, April 26, 1968
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Face Of The Enemy: A Viet Cong soldier, captured during an ambush of government troops near Cheo Reo, looks apprehensively at his captors as he awaits interrogation, July 1st, 1965. The 18-year-old guerrilla was one of two prisoners taken by government troops. Heavy casualties were inflicted by both sides in the fire fight that followed the ambush
1965