아!어찌 잊으랴! 6.25(2)

아!어찌 잊으랴! 6.25(2)

Four US Marines read a message at the front that an armistice agreement is due to be signed on July 26, 1953.

General William C. Harrison (left) and General Nam Il (right) sign an agreement to end the hostilities that ended the Korean War, 

not far from Panmunjom on July 27, 1953. 

One of four American soldiers of the 21st Infantry Regiment was found halfway to the forward observation post and front line on 10 July 1950. 

The photographer reported that the soldiers were most likely caught on the night of July 10 and then shot. 

Many were shot in the head, their hands tied behind their backs. In addition, a large number of weapons and military equipment were destroyed.

An American military tank rides after a column of prisoners of war on September 26, 1950

South Korean recruits are sent on a platform car to the war against the North Koreans, July 17, 1950.

 They arranged for seeing off with all honors and with the orchestra.

North Korean prisoners of war, captured during the battle of Yongsang on September 2, 1950, are sitting on the hood of a jeep under the guard 

of American foot soldiers.

This photograph, once considered “top secret”, is one of a series of photographs of the execution of 1,800 South Korean political prisoners 

in Daejeon in July 1950. 

Historians and survivors claim that the South Korean military executed many citizens before the advance of the North Korean army.

 They were executed on suspicion of sympathy for the Communists and possible cooperation with the enemy. 

General Douglas MacArthur (in the passenger seat in a leather jacket) inspects the front line at Incheon in western Korea on September 19, 1950. 

He is accompanied by Major General Edward M. Elmond (left), commander of the 10th Corps, and Vice Admiral Arthur D. Strabl, commander 

of the Fifth Fleet. 

Doctors operate on a Marine wounded in action on June 25, 1950. 

The bodies of 400 Korean citizens lay in Daejeon's prison yard in September 1950.

 These people were tied up and killed by the retreating communist military before the 24th platoon of the American army entered the city

 on September 28. The captives had to dig their own graves before being shot. on the left is war correspondent Gordon Hammock.

Koreans lie on the street among the destroyed buildings after the fighting in Seoul in September 1950. 

The bodies of more than 60 South Korean citizens killed in the Kum Bon San mine, near Tube-ni, on October 19, 1950. 

They were killed by the North Korean Communists, who brought them here from the Chinnampo prison. The bodies were found by UN soldiers.

The bodies of American, English and Korean soldiers were collected for mass burning in Kotori on December 8, 1950. 

 Bound hands and snow melted by breath are the “traces” of a Korean civilian who was shot and left to die by the retreating Communists. 

A Turkish soldier, tired after long pedestrian crossings, as part of UN troops, is riding a mule, which he took from the enemy on May 5, 1951

Three Korean Communists in a fishing boat were captured by soldiers of the cruiser Manchester off the coast of Korea on May 10, 1951.

Dead Chinese soldiers lie at a gathering point on May 17, 1951.

A Korean girl with a brother on her back passes the M-26 tank on June 9, 1951. 

Korean women cry while looking at the bodies of political prisoners killed by communists, Hambung, Korea, October 28, 1953 

A villager walks home from a field loaded with harvested rice, Korea, October 20, 1953

Frank S. Rimer from Minnesota, wounded 15 minutes before the armistice in Korea, receives medical care at a field medical center, August 3, 1953. 

Left - physician Earl J. Jones from Alabama. 

American soldiers pray in front of a picture depicting Christ, who consoles a battle-weary marine. Korea, December 15, 1952. 

The painting was painted by one of the Marines.

Korean Looks at Korean and English President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Announcement, Seoul, Korea, November 28, 1952 

American 38th Infantry Regiment medic, Lieutenant Earl Hargroder, right, sets up a blood plasma dropper for Julodgio Santiago from Puerto Rico, 

who was hit by mortar fire, at the front-line aid station in Korea, September 11, 1952 

South Korean police come to the rescue of a member of the local legislature (wearing a straw hat), who was attacked by supporters 

of President Syngman Rhee. Busan, June 28, 1952

U.S. Air Force corporal Joseph P. Lani, right, and his Korean assistant are washing two missing Koreans: 

a 14-year-old teenager and his older brother, blind since birth. Korea, March 26, 1952.

 This is part of the program of the 839th Air Battalion, aimed at facilitating the fate of civilians suffering from war.

 The brothers received medical care, warm clothes and good food. 

Their parents were killed by the Reds more than a year ago due to an attempt to cross the border and seek refuge with UN forces. 

Lieutenant William Jasper leads a service for Jewish worshipers aboard the American aircraft carrier Antietam, March 20, 1952 

Two North Korean soldiers patrol the area during a ceasefire in Panmunjom, October 28, 1951

Dudley Lefkin of California looks at a sign mounted along the road. Korea, July 9, 1951. The inscription reads, "Slow down, Joe."

Frozen Thai sailors are waiting on the east Korean coast (enemy territory), while a helicopter of the US Navy takes out the wounded.

 January 21, 1951 Sailors got ashore after their ship ran aground

Sgt. Harry Heldret from Ohio, sunbathes on the banks of the Imjin River in Korea near the front line. Next to him are his clothes, helmet and rifle.

An unidentified American helmet, rifle, and ammunition belt indicate the place where he was killed in battle. Korea, June 24, 1951

Lieutenant Ben Eubanks of Atlanta, left, and Lieutenant Stanley Himan of New Rochelle, are sitting in the cockpit of a B-26 bomber 

from the 3rd detachment and checking the plane before a night flight into enemy territory. Korea, June 14, 1951

Soldiers from the 7th US Army Infantry Unit play cards on the front line when free time was issued, Korea, June 5, 1951

The crew of the loudspeaker is broadcasting to the Chinese, entrenched in the hill, before the UN troops go on the offensive.

A bearded North Korean, holding an American cigarette in his hand, uses the sign language to contact the American patrol on April 28, 1951. 

He is trying to tell everything he knows about the Chinese Communist forces that passed in the area.

The Confederate flag flutters on top of Sergeant Eugene L. Bersey’s tent from Memphis, Tennessee, an artilleryman of the 136th Artillery Battalion, 

US Eighth Army. Korea, April 27, 1951 

Soldiers staged an improvised hairdresser on a hill during a lull in the fighting. Korea.

US military honors the first four of the 57 victims of the Korean War that arrived aboard the US Navy General Randall March 21, 1951 

Private Dick Powell and his friend Fuzzy eat near the front line. March 12, 1951

South Korean children wave flags, welcoming the UN forces advancing along the Han River to Seoul. South Korea, March 7, 1951 

Corporal Robert M. Kessler of St. Louis, a member of the UN forces who fought a fierce battle with the Reds in the Chipyong sector,

 examines cartridges from a Chinese machine gun and other equipment and ammunition lying on the ground. Korea, February 24, 1951

Tired soldiers try to rest in the Chipyan area, Korea, February 23, 1951

Sgt. Billy Barber from San Francisco, Private Billy J. Hunt from Kansas City and Private Joseph J. Doleis from Cleveland, fighters 

of the 25th Infantry Division, cook food on fire during a lull in the fight against the Chinese Communist forces in Korea, 16 February 1951

Sergeant Herman T. Claxton (left) from Nashville, Tennessee, is resting on his bed in a hotel at the Karatzu seaside resort in Japan.

 February 11, 1951. Sergeant William E. Bell writes a letter home.

A Korean man sits on the smoldering ruins of his burned house, Suwon, Korea, February 3, 1951. 

The military burned down houses that could serve the Red Army. 

Corporal Clifford Rodgers from Muskogee, Oklahoma, looks at dead Korean civilians lying in deep snow with their wrists tied 

on January 27, 1951 near Yangji, about 15 miles northwest of Ichon, Korea.

 Apparently the people were killed by the Reds, retreating under the onslaught of the enemy. 

Frozen Thai sailors are waiting on the east Korean coast (enemy territory), while a helicopter of the US Navy takes out the wounded. 

January 21, 1951 Sailors got ashore after their ship ran aground.

Lieutenant J.J. Schneider from St. Louis, left, and captain J.B. Hannon from Nebraska is sitting on the wing of a fighter plane at an airfield 

in Korea on January 15, 1951. Between them is the dog mascot of their unit, which they take in flight. Both pilots returned home after the war alive.

Homeless brother and sister try to keep warm near low heat in Seoul Railroad Yards, Korea, December 29, 1950

Marine inspects the ruins of Hanjung, Korea, December 20, 1950

Pyongyang residents and refugees from other areas of North Korea risky move along the ruined girders of the bridge over the Taedong River. 

They flee south from the advancing troops of communist China. The Chinese entered the Korean War as allies of North Korea.

 The USA fought on the side of South Korea.

A family of Korean refugees travels, settling down between freight cars, away from the advancing communist troops.

 Sinmak, North Korea, December 1950

The American patrol puts prisoners of war on the ground. Kusong, North Korea, November 16, 1950.

 This photograph, taken by Hank Walker, was featured in Life magazine.

A North Korean refugee hiding her children under the covers, trying to explain something to an American paratrooper landing 

near Sunchon, North Korea, October 25, 1950 

Two children cry at the body of their dead mother on the road leading to Pyongyang, North Korea, October 22, 1950. 

Children were picked up by British and Australian soldiers.

President Truman affixes a Medal of Honorless Service with four oak leaves on General Douglas MacArthur’s chest during an awards ceremony 

on the runway at Wake Island, October 14, 1950. 

In the center of the picture is John J. Muccio, United States Ambassador to Korea who was awarded the medal "For Merit".

 According to a letter sent by Muccio to the Department of State, US soldiers were supposed to shoot Korean refugees 

if they approached the American line

US military policeman searches Korean refugee for hidden weapons on the banks of the Naktong River in South Korea, September 27, 1950

A North Korean prisoner rejoices that he was captured unscathed. Near Kimpo Airfield, North of Seoul, September 22, 1950 

Four military transport ships (LST) unload on shore in Incheon on September 15, 1950

Two British soldiers from the UN forces, Derrick Dimer and Clem Williams, hung from head to toe with equipment, are talking

 in the British sector of Korea. Naktong River, South Korea, September 14, 1950

Corporal Arthur Warrell, from New York, sitting at the wheel, takes wounded prisoners of the North Koreans to the hospital, September 1, 1950 

General Douglas MacArthur, United Nations Commander-in-Chief, sits on the bridge of the US McKinley warship during his arrival 

at Inchon Harbor in September 1950. From left to right: 

US Seventh Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Arthur D. Strabble; Brigadier General I.K. Wright and General Edward M. Elmond

An American infantryman who killed a friend cries on the chest of another soldier. Korea, August 28, 1950 

The body of a dead North Korean tanker lies next to the wrecked tanks after an attack by South Korean troops.

 August 13, 1950, Indong, Korea, north of Waegwan.

US Marines assist wounded comrade on Naktong River in South Korea. The war, which began in Korea 60 years ago, on June 25, 1950, 

killed millions of people and left the peninsula in ruins.

South Korean military police escort a prisoner of war, South Korea, July 21, 1950

US soldiers leave the Taejon train station heading for the front line, South Korea.