
B29 view of Korean Terrain - an Infantry War

July 7, 1950
Exhausted South Korean infantry momentarily rest with their weapons
34th Infantry at the Kum

34th Infantry, Ansong River, 7/50
But the North Koreans broke through, and Taejon fell

5th Marines mount out for Korean War: San Diego, July 12-15, 1950

Death From The Skies

Army Wounded In Action, Pusan Perimeter, 8/50

T34s bombed out by USAF

T34 burns from M-26 Hit, 1st Marine Brigade August, 1950

Another Murdered GI POW

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Russian 14.5mm antitank rifle PTRD-1941 (Degtyarev) with satchel of AP rounds
DP 7.62 mm Ruchnoy Pulemyot Light Machine Gun
Japanese 7.7mm rifle
Russian 7.62mm Carbine M1944
Russian Model PPSh41 7.62mm submachine gun

North Korean Army Invades with coordinated tank, infantry and air assault.
6/25/50
Task Force Smith

1st Units of Task Force Smith entering Taejon, 7/2/50
U.S. Army 24th Infantry Division Photo
D.M. Giangreco, War in Korea: 1950-1953 (Presidio Press).
American Ground Forces Enter the Battle
The Korean War, 1950-1953

PFC Kenneth Shadrack (right), part of 2.36 in. Bazooka Team firing on an NKPA T34 tank south of Osan. Seconds later PFC Shadrack was mortally wounded by machine gun fire.

19th Infantry Regiment defend a dike along the Kum near Taepyong-ni, 7/14/50
The Kum River battle was a disaster.

ROKs Moving Up, August, 1950,
Pusan Perimeter

On the Taegu Front, a Destroyed T34, Compliments of 27th Infantry Regiment
The Bowling Alley - The Sangju-Taegu Corridor, 8/21/50

Provisional Marine Brigade wounded rescued under heavy fire

ROK Company K

5th RCT Veteran after 31 days on the line. September, 1950
Murderer?
Wounded North Korean Prisoner Had Many Personal Belongings of GIs.
Near No-Name Ridge, Naktong River, Pusan Perimeter, September, 1950

51 Victims of North Korean atrocities are uncovered in a mass grave. They had been murdered near Chonju soon after the initial wave of NK advances

Murder was a preferred North Korean tactic. PFC Roy Manring identifies four North Korean prisoneers as among those who gunned him down, along with 41 other American POWs, their hands tied behind their backs, and left for dead.

North Korean POWs, 9/50
Sanctuary for Murderers?
Hill 303

Ship unloading at Pusan Harbor, 7/50
Eighth Army in Command
Establishing the Pusan Perimeter


July 28, 1950
ROK wounded in Pusan Perimeter fighting

T34s, Bombed Out by USAF, July of 1950

155mm Howitzers in Battery

1st Marine Brigade, Tank Action at the Naktong, August, 1950

Marine Wounded Moved by Navy Corpsmen

M46 Patton with its 90mm HV Gun

25id, Masan, 9/50
M-24 Chaffee Light Tanks wait for T34/85 assault

Murdered South Korean civilians
Taejon, 9/50
A few of the tens of thousands of South Korean Civilians murdered by retreating NKPA

A North Korean Nurse.
Captured near Singdangdong by 2nd Btn 38th Infantry Regiment

North Korean 76mm Self-Propelled Gun
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