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DimensionsSheet: 4 15/16 x 7 1/8 in. (12.5 x 18.1 cm)
Image: 3 5/8 x 5 7/8 in. (9.2 x 14.9 cm)
Accession Number 2024.171
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsFW-KOR-003 (verso u,l graphite) $1,200 (verso u,l graphite) -3- [illegible] (verso center ink) Infantes de Marina. . . . (verso left graphite) Infantes de Marina de los Estados Unidos recogen alambres de puas cerca del puente de la puerta de libertad en Corea para ayudar en l la liberación de 22,000 prisioneros de guerra anticomunistas, según ha dispuesto para las 12:ol del 23 de enero. 20 de enero de 1954 (verso l,c printed ink)
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Operation Prisoner Exchange: This is the receiving area at Panmunjom, Korea, where United Nations POWs are being released by the Communists. At left, the Communist ambulances unload the United Nations soldiers and at right, the American ambulances which take them on to Freedom Village, near Munsan, April 22, 1953
1953
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
A man who identified himself as Josef Mlot-Mroz, of Salem, Massachusetts, chained himself to the fence at the White House January 31 during a double demonstration outside the Executive Mansion. The incident happened as a group of clergymen were picketing to protest "the immorality of the warfare in Vietnam," and a counter demonstration was being held by a group supporting the United States policies. Mlot-Mroz taunted the anti-war demonstrates from his position in chains. Police cut him loose and drove him away in a patrol wagon, January 31, 1967
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
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
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
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
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
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
Peace demonstrators who have been keeping a 24-hour vigil at the Pentagon this week were placed under arrest. They were loaded on a bus to be taken to the United States District Court for Northern Virginia in nearby Alexandria. These two were arrested while climbing a wall into a flower bed in front of the building, May 12, 1967
Unknown
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Demolition at Hamhung: High explosives rip through several spans of a railroad bridge outside Hamhung as withdrawal of United Nations forces continued, December 17, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
This bridge across the Imjin River, built especially to carry United Nations convoys to Kaesong for the cease fire meetings also serves as a diving board and shelter for a swimming pool MPs in foreground are posted to see that non unauthorized personnel cross the bridge, July 19, 1951
1951
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
Image Not Available for Racial prejudice is acquired, not inherited, sociologists point out. These children at a nonsegregated housing project in Washington, D.C., are growing up in an atmosphere of racial harmony, reflecting the attitudes in their parents' homes. There is no reason to believe that integration will contribute to intermarriages, the social scientists say, because experience has shown that 90% of all marriages are between people who have similar racial, social and religious backgrounds. This is one example of racial integration of a number in the nation's capital. President Eisenhower hopes Washington will became a model for the rest of the nation. Economic and social barriers against Negroes have been dropping int he wake of court rulings and organized campaigns, September 12, 1955
Racial prejudice is acquired, not inherited, sociologists point out. These children at a nonsegregated housing project in Washington, D.C., are growing up in an atmosphere of racial harmony, reflecting the attitudes in their parents' homes. There is no reason to believe that integration will contribute to intermarriages, the social scientists say, because experience has shown that 90% of all marriages are between people who have similar racial, social and religious backgrounds. This is one example of racial integration of a number in the nation's capital. President Eisenhower hopes Washington will became a model for the rest of the nation. Economic and social barriers against Negroes have been dropping int he wake of court rulings and organized campaigns, September 12, 1955
Unknown
1955