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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: 7 1/4 x 10 in. (18.4 x 25.4 cm)
Image: 6 1/16 x 9 1/2 in. (15.4 x 24.1 cm)
Accession Number 2025.176
Classificationsphotograph
Inscriptions8909 (verso u,l graphite) MD-KOR-016 $1,200 (verso l,l graphite) G.O. Korea-Seoul (verso r,c red ink)
Marks(FX3-Sept.22) MARINES MOVE ON SEOUL -- U.S. 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. (APWIREPHOTO via radio from Tokyo) (echo60715md/rea) 1950 (l,c printed in black ink) SEP 25 1950 (verso l,l stamp in red ink) CLEVELAND NEWS REFERENCE DEPARTMENT CLEVELAND OHIO (verso l,l stamp in red ink) Brigham (verso l,c stamp in black ink)
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
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
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
South Korea: Marine tank moves up in the Yongsan sector past the body of a dead American soldier (L), lying on the road where he was hit, September 12, 1952
1952
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
A line of South Vietnamese marines moves across a shallow branch of the Mekong River during an operation near Neak Luong, Cambodia on August 20th, 1970, major base for such operations in Cambodia’s eastern region. Monsoon rains have swollen streams and rivers in the area and troops often are in and out of the water dozens of times daily
1970
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Marines Get Ready for POW Release: United States Marines string barbed wire near Freedom Gate bridge in Korea to help channelize an estimated 22,000 anti-Communist prisoners of war if they are released as scheduled at 12:01 a.m. January 12. Officers of the United States Eighth Army said they are prepared for “any eventuality” and can handle a disorganized rush southward by the POWs if it materializes. The Neutral Nations Repatriation commission is trying to achieve agreement with the Communists and the United Nations command on what to do with the prison-weary veterans in the Anti-Red camp, January 8, 1954
1954
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
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
Naktong River: Patton tanks of the 24th Division cross a tributary of the Naktong River on pontoon bridge as engineers work to build a more permanent structure in background, September 23, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
North Korea: Two mechanics S/Sgt. Ronald Kemp (left) of Plattsburg, New York, and Sgt. John Munro of Medord, Massachusetts work in the bitter cold to salvage parts from the engine of a wrecked Corsair plane, November 22, 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
Somewhere in Korea: American infantrymen move to new positions along the Kum River as one of the biggest battles of the war shapes up in the vicinity of Taejon, July 19, circa 1950-1952
ca. 1950-1952
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Wonsan, Korea: Marine Corps troops assemble on the beach before moving northward in pursuit of North Korean troops. Part of these Marines have been used in mopping up bypassed North Koreans who are making guerrilla attacks near Wonsan, October 31, 1950
1950