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DimensionsSheet: 8 15/16 x 7 1/16 in. (22.7 x 17.9 cm)
Image: 8 1/8 x 6 3/4 in. (20.6 x 17.1 cm)
Accession Number 2024.162
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsEH-KOR-183 (verso u,l graphite) $2,000 (verso u,l graphite)
South Korea: Sgt. F.C. Samuel Naples of Babylon, Long Island, New York, (left) and Capt. Rex Neal, Arcadio, Ohio, set a time fuse on a 90 mm shell for an air burst over North Korean positions on the Masan front, August 28, circa 1950-1952
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
Image Not Available for Walking With The Wounded: There is no quarter given on either side at the Vietnam outpost of Khe Sanh. The wounded, moved by litter from their defensive positions to the hospital bunker or into evacuating helicopters, are the targets for North Vietnamese gunners, making any open exposure a time of danger. Here, a downed soldier, with shell fragments in his back and legs, is carried by his comrades, one wounded about the head, across an open area during a lull in the fighting, March 8, 1968
Walking With The Wounded: There is no quarter given on either side at the Vietnam outpost of Khe Sanh. The wounded, moved by litter from their defensive positions to the hospital bunker or into evacuating helicopters, are the targets for North Vietnamese gunners, making any open exposure a time of danger. Here, a downed soldier, with shell fragments in his back and legs, is carried by his comrades, one wounded about the head, across an open area during a lull in the fighting, March 8, 1968
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Stevenson Get a First Hand Look: Adlai Stevenson (front) wearing helmet and flak vest, moves through a front line trench on the Korean front during an inspection tour. Looming in the background are bunkers. Behind him, left to right, are General Maxwell Taylor, 8th Army commander and Lieutenant General Paul Kendall, I Corps commander. During the tour a mortar shell burst near the Stevenson party, March 17, 1953
1953
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: Tea time is an important time for the British in peace or war. Here four of them take time out to enjoy a cup. They are left to right: Pvt. Harry Cross, London, England; Cpl. Alfred Caswell, Chester, England; and Cpl. Leonard Whitley, London; and Pvt. Bill Harris, London, September 2, circa 1950-1952
c. 1950-1952
1995.3.a, Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Positions on the Desert
Terry Allen
Douglas Kent Hall
1990
Image Not Available for Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Palestinian refugees arriving in a camp in Sidon, July 1982
Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Palestinian refugees arriving in a camp in Sidon, July 1982
1982
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Army in White: With only their faces showing, these soldiers of the 45th Division in their winter uniforms, are almost invisible as they man gun position atop a snowy hill in Korea, December 29. From left are: Pvt. William Pace, Napton, Montatana; Pvt. Wally Romero, New Iberia, Louisiana; Cpl. Robert G. Hamm, Hollister, North Carolina (kneeling) and Pvt. Richard G. James, Ashville, North Carolina, January 3, 1952
1952
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Israeli troops relax along the Green Line near an infirmary
1982
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
A dead Viet Cong lies in a pit as U.S. Marines fire on Communist positions here December 10th, 1965. The Marines entered the battle to rescue a battalion of government troops almost wiped out by the Viet Cong. Thousands of U.S. Marines from the 7th fleet poured ashore and trapped a Viet Cong out of 1,500 men in the largest operation for the Marines in the conflict, Hoi An, South Vietnam
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Operation Smack Reaches a Climax for One Man: Medical corpsmen carry a wounded combat man to an aid station on the Korean front after he was wounded in “Operation Smack”—Sunday’s unsuccessful assault on Spud Hill positions held by Chinese Reds. Other medics stand by to give assistance when needed. The attack, watched by high army officers supplied with gay-colored programs, now is under fire in Washington and in London, January 29, 1953
1953
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Senator Strom Thurmond (D-South Carolina) is all smiles as he steps outside of the Senate Gallery mobbed by reporters after winding up his 24-hour, 18-minutes talkathon against the Civil Rights Bill. Thurmond bested the record set by Wayne Morse of Oregon in 1953, Washington D.C., August 28, 1957
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1957
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: Chester Simmons (left) Bloomfield, Montana, and Cpl. Arthur Medeiros, Providence, Rhode Island, carry land mines which will be planted in the Chingdong-Ni sector below Masan, September 5, 1950
1950