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DimensionsSheet: 7 1/16 x 8 15/16 in. (17.9 x 22.7 cm)
Image: 5 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (14 x 20 cm)
Accession Number 2024.168
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsST-KOR-009.2 (verso l,l graphite) $1,500 (verso l,l graphite) 1243 (verso u,r ink)
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Handy Helpers: Members of the 1st Air Cavalry Division pass a child from hand to hand across a rain swollen stream near Xuan Que as they helped South Vietnamese refugees move to a resettlement camp from their village last week. The villagers volunteered to leave the area which had become a battleground between U.S. and North Vietnamese soldiers. The village was destroyed after the villagers left to deny sanctuary to the enemy, January 7, 1968
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Training Pays Off: South Korea: In the rugged, treacherous terrain of Korea, the battle of supply is quite often more important and more violent than the actual combat between men. One unit of the 19th Infantry Regiment, their stones and ammunition shrunken by poor transport and worse roads, discovered a small railroad. Near their position and proceed to make use of it. Utilizing some battered equipment and their own ingenuity, they fashioned an adequate supply line on rails. The tiny railroad was named “Spaulding’s Spur,” after an executive officer in the Regiment. A group of GI’s, aided by some South Koreans, assemble a railroad car from some discarded equipment they found, September 23, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Unearth Weapons Cache: U.S. troops pull a sand covered wooden box, in which enemy weapons were hidden, from a grave somewhere in the Batangan Peninsula, 60 miles south of Da Nang in South Vietnam. The soldiers are members of the Americal Division, which is operating in the peninsula, January 24, 1969
1969
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: South Korean Army officer, right, writes the name and unit of a retreating South Korean soldier, July 16, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
U.S. Army Lt. James Gleason, a bandage over a head wound, talks to fellow soldiers after surviving a heavy Viet Cong ambush near Cheo Reo in the central highlands of Vietnam. Gleason and other Americans were advising a Vietnamese force which was to evacuate a small town near Cheo Reo when the guerrillas attacked the motorized convoy. Four Americans and about 50 Vietnamese soldiers were killed in the attack, June 30, 1965
1965
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
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
South Korea: Lt. Col. Kim Young, Korean Air Force commander, briefs part of the Korean volunteer group before take-off on mission over enemy held Korea, July 25, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Yom Kippur War: Israeli soldiers and Egyptian prisoners of war, under an Egyptian artillery barrage of shells on the "Hatzer", a bridgehead where the Israeli forces were deploying to cross to the west side of the Suez Canal, Sinai, October 1973
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
On The Alert: Members of a Communist Neo Lao Haksat anti-aircraft unit prepare their guns for action in a “liberated” area, somewhere in Laos. The soldiers claim to have shot down 116 U.S. aircraft, August 1972
1972
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
White, Negro Pupils Get Instructions: H. B. Sanders, right, gives instructions to members of a 10th grade class at McKinley Technical High School as the new District of Columbia public school term opens today. White and negro pupils are members of the class. heretofore public schools in the nation's capital were segregated. A school official said some 400 Negroes have enrolled in previously all-white McKinley High, one of the city's larger schools, September 13, 1954
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1954