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Published ReferencesAssociated Press ID # 6804260161
DimensionsOverall: 6 5/8 x 8 3/8 in. (16.8 x 21.3 cm)
Accession Number 2024.288
Classificationsphotograph
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
GI’s Take Koje Today: Businesslike GI’s, well-armed for their day’s work, march along a road on Koje Island with a large North Korean flag which they had just taken from prisoner-of-war compound 85. The enemy banner is one of the many symbols of defiance ordered removed the troublesome prisoner enclosures on the South Korean island, site of the largest Allied prisoner concentration, June 9, 1952
1952
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
Image Not Available for Yom Kippur War: the Israeli army made a rapid advance towards the Suez Canal and took hundreds of Egyptian soldiers as prisoners of war. Afterwards, they were loaded in trucks and taken to a special camp, Fayed, Egypt, October 24, 1973
Yom Kippur War: the Israeli army made a rapid advance towards the Suez Canal and took hundreds of Egyptian soldiers as prisoners of war. Afterwards, they were loaded in trucks and taken to a special camp, Fayed, Egypt, October 24, 1973
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
North Vietnamese Troops: North Vietnamese troops in truck pass the front of the Pacific Hotel in Da Nang sometime after its seizure by the North Vietnamese. The building was once the headquarters of the U.S. A.I.D. organization, May 6, 1975
1975
Image Not Available for Camouflaged Antiaircraft Gun in Cambodia: A camouflaged truck with an antiaircraft gun mounted in the back is shown on the Cambodian side of the Kompong Trabek River across from the South Vietnamese border. Scene is not far from where Cambodia government claimed U.S. and South Vietnamese forces made an attack last Thursday, January 23, 1968
Camouflaged Antiaircraft Gun in Cambodia: A camouflaged truck with an antiaircraft gun mounted in the back is shown on the Cambodian side of the Kompong Trabek River across from the South Vietnamese border. Scene is not far from where Cambodia government claimed U.S. and South Vietnamese forces made an attack last Thursday, January 23, 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
Soviet Soldier Firing Captured German Panzerfaust at Night, late 1942, from "The Great Patriotic War Portfolio I"
Dmitri Baltermants
2003
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: While Lt. General Walton H. Walker, CG 8th Army looks on, General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, inspects some captured North Korean small arms near the Korean battle front. Collins visited the Korean front to analyze the war’s progress, August 24, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sariwon, Korea: Civilian police guard North Korea Communists captured in the city. The prisoners have their hands tied behind their backs and huddle together for warmth. Just what will become of the prisoners in the event of further withdrawals is not unknown, December 12, 1950
1950
Image Not Available for Robinson Testifies: Brooklyn Dodgers' star Jackie Robinson speaks before the House Un-American Activities committee. Robinson said African Americans would fight for this country "against Russia or any other enemy,", July 18, 1949
Robinson Testifies: Brooklyn Dodgers' star Jackie Robinson speaks before the House Un-American Activities committee. Robinson said African Americans would fight for this country "against Russia or any other enemy,", July 18, 1949
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1949