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- Chompy, on 01/07/2009, -0/+20If you ever find yourself here in Seoul, be sure to check out the National War Museum in Yongsan-gu. They've got some incredible exhibits on this topic, as well as a good 20 acres of tanks, planes, APCs and other gear from the war.
- chrissku, on 01/07/2009, -1/+13Direct link to Flickr page with all pictures....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imcomkorea/sets/72157 ... - jasmus, on 01/07/2009, -0/+12Use reply. I had to scroll up to see what the hell you were talking about.
- UtahApocalyse, on 01/07/2009, -0/+12My dad was in this war and will love going over all of this.
- spyd3rweb, on 01/07/2009, -0/+10I should dig the ones of Korea out of my grandpa's basement, they would give rotten.com a run for their money. This collection looks somewhat sanitized.
- ScottMitchell, on 01/07/2009, -0/+10Makes you wonder if we'll see the reunification of North and South Korea in our lifetime.
My wife is Korean, her mom's family lived in Pyongyang, but were fortunately able to flee to Seoul before the war's conclusion. My grandfather-in-law fought in the war and has some pretty brutal stories. He's still got a bullet in his shoulder. - slashdotordigg, on 01/07/2009, -0/+8War destroys everything. And it did. Yet, it is amazing to know how Korea became one of the 30 developed countries today and boasting its 13th largest economy in the world made possible by development of pioneering technology and industry in just 50 years of time. Most countries who suffered through what Korea when through did not recover in timely matter. Before the Korean war, Korea was occupied by Japanese and was tortured as badly as Jews were by the Nazis, for over 3 decades. Korea liberated from Japanese illegal occupation in 1945 followed by their surrender when United States dropped nukes in two cities in Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
- Photos during korean war.
http://www.history.army.mil/photos/Korea/kor1950/k ...
- Photo of Seoul, Korea taken in 1950:
http://ysfine.com/kobak/sl628.jpg
- Photo of Seoul, South Korea, taken recently:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/100163 ... - Chompy, on 01/07/2009, -0/+8It's 2009; if the Army posted the "gory" stuff they'd probably get sued.
- JB88, on 01/07/2009, -0/+7If I am not mistaken, which I very well might be, they denote the two main paratrooper formations. In addition, all parachutes had symbols so that paratroopers higher up could steer toward the direction of their platoon.
- divingfool, on 01/06/2009, -4/+11Good for the Military
- Chairboy, on 01/07/2009, -1/+7Were there many videos taken during the Korean war?
- JB88, on 01/07/2009, -3/+9People like you, doublefelix, are the exact type of people who piss me off. Instead of appreciating this link, and the interesting pictures within, you decided to inject your ill-formed political opinions into it. Grow up.
- shinpoe, on 01/07/2009, -1/+6Thank goodness for the UN Forces. Otherwise, I would not have been able to live such a comfortable life in Korea and Canada.
- cme884, on 01/07/2009, -0/+5It's kind of strange... I've lived in Korea for over a year now, and a lot of these places in the photos (Seoul, Inchon, Suwon, Chonju, etc) I've either been to or heard of. It's really strange to think that most of the people I come into contact every day are at most two generations removed from someone who experienced this. Wild.
- kathos, on 01/07/2009, -1/+6Ah... I remember my gramps now.
Jal ja. - Tolzmaniac, on 01/07/2009, -0/+5Could someone explain why some of the parachutes in the paratrooper photos are white?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imcomkorea/2920357568 ... - wutimatang, on 01/07/2009, -1/+5Amazing photos, from a forgotten war.
- JB88, on 01/07/2009, -1/+5Kudos MoisturePoints!
- JB88, on 01/07/2009, -0/+4Thanks for the tip, Chompy.
- kmoser, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4Photos taken in the early 1960s by a U.S. soldier stationed in Seoul:
http://www.kmoser.com/korea/ - SifuMoKung, on 01/07/2009, -0/+4I don't think you can steer with those type of chutes. More than likely some are designed for night use, others for day use. There was probably a shortage, so they mixed both types for the operation. This is only a guess, if anyone knows for sure, please chime in.
- napkin1, on 01/07/2009, -0/+4Absolutely. Paper doesn't last forever, so get them scanned soon. Afterwords maybe donate to a historical society that can help preserve them? Gory or not, they are history, and they tell a story that deserves to be remembered.
- saruyama, on 01/07/2009, -0/+3Diggers say a lot of ***** about libraries and archives and such being obsolete, but if you appreciate these kind of images it worth keeping in mind where they come. Despite being on Flickr now, these have been maintained for years by the kind of institution I see put down all the time here.
- gkiltz, on 01/07/2009, -0/+3There was actually quite a bit of old 16 mm film shot during that era, and probably some 8 mm as well, some of it by the Army, some of it by the media, and some by the Koreans. Even a small amount by amateur filmmakers and small-time professionals!
I'm sure a lot of it has survived. Some of it has not!
That which has is probably coming to the natural end of the line! It's time to get it into digital form where it can be preserved for another 50+ years! - daPhoenix, on 01/07/2009, -1/+4Ponder if we'll look at modern US war crimes the same way and with the same rhetoric in 50 years, hmm?
- Leviathan433, on 01/07/2009, -0/+3magical Korean unicorns
- fxu1989, on 01/07/2009, -0/+3And here I was looking for black&white pictures for my graphic design project in a couple of weeks, black&white to color.
- gkiltz, on 01/07/2009, -0/+3Better late than never!
At least some of that film constitutes a historical record that is important. Since much of it is 16 mm, and probably some is 8 mm and not the highest priced film available, it is largely getting close to the end of it's life. We need to get it preserved now, while the losses are still manageable. Else important parts of our history will be lost forever! - sopadeelle, on 01/07/2009, -1/+4seeing these photos made me sad that I still haven't visited Korea....
- BotchaMcCoola, on 01/07/2009, -1/+4Also, don't ever forget: MacArthur's Korean aggression played no small role in Chinese and Russian support for North Vietnam later. So it was a real cash cow for the MIC.
- acid_jazz, on 01/07/2009, -0/+2Good night?
- onthetrail, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2Where is some peoples valor of their countries and there support of truth I had several uncles in these wars
.They were bad but we prevailed.I thank them And we should honor all of them.
War is War but freedom and democracy is not cheap neither is safety .Think about it. - ZombieInvasion, on 01/07/2009, -2/+4Do it man. There are plenty of us that would really appreciate it, gore and all.
- SifuMoKung, on 01/09/2009, -0/+2*sigh*
Alas, sarcasm goes unnoticed yet again. - acid_jazz, on 01/07/2009, -0/+2My wife is Korean as well. I visited the DMZ last year and was just absolutely blown away with all the history it had to offer and it was surreal to be standing across the line in North Korea... Someday I want to go on the DMZ tour from the North side. Must be a huge change in perspective.
- SifuMoKung, on 01/07/2009, -1/+3The good news is that we are still there.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 01/07/2009, -0/+2If you like wasting US prosperity.
- Ivorydrive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1because you touch yourself at night
- Ivorydrive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+1I had the same thought. This comes across to me as the military saying "Look, we would never do anything terrible like this again. Please continue to fund us."
Maybe I'm being too hard on uncle sam. It's not like the military's slaughtering anyone WE give a ***** about on a daily basis. amirite guise? - MoisturePoints, on 01/07/2009, -6/+7Please. Please give us a ***** break.
- Ultomato, on 01/16/2009, -0/+1so... if bin laden/nuclear weapons/al qaeda was the reason for the iraq war... why havent we found them and stopped them yet?
- MrEthiopian, on 01/09/2009, -1/+2Maybe in 60 years or so we can see the pictures of what actually happened in Iraq yesterday.
- heystoopid, on 01/08/2009, -1/+2In Korea in 1950 , all foreign war correspondents and photographers were welcomed with open arms by all the UN troops operating in the Combat Zone .
Fast forward to George Bush Snr's invasion of Panama City after the death and very deliberate murder of one Spanish photographer by the name of "Juan Antonio Rodriguez Moreno" by a US soldier outside the Marriott Hotel in Panama City in December 1989 . After that incident , the US DOD just sort of declared war on all reporters not escorted by it's Propaganda department single pip green as grass 2nd Lt's whose job it was to host a selective view minus all the not so nice criminal bits that war creates and keep them away from the stressed out combat nervous troops who are quite likely to shoot at anything that moved or crawled . George Bush Senior created the next generation of staged managed war in Gulf War 1 , which has now become the defacto US standard , of if they take any photo we don't want seen you can shoot the photographer and we don't care who you kill in the firing line to do it . Interestingly under the US Republican Presidents War Correspondent and photographers deaths seeem go up and when a Democrat President arrives they go down for some obscure reason ?
Thus half a century later photographing US troops is an extremely dangerous and life threatening option in the new 21st Century of propaganda even for embedded escorted official photographers as the nervous IED battle scarred US Iraqi veterans are more then likely to shoot the photograher to hide their assorted war crimes they commit on a daily basis "Blackwater Style" against all mostly innocent Iraqi peons in retaliation to the daily bombings , mortaring and other random anti-occupation blues directed directly at all US soldiers and posterior ass sun diving allies facilities .
Times do change for the worse . - DIGGorTHREAT, on 01/09/2009, -1/+1nice for the army
- Pinkertinkle, on 01/07/2009, -6/+4Told you not to get to get too close to the Yalu river.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 01/07/2009, -4/+2The costs of the US Korean Boondoggle keep increasing. Ever 2-3 years North Korea sets up a nuclear reactor or bomb test and collects a few billion in extortion from you chumps.
- guamainiac, on 01/07/2009, -5/+3Thanks for the info
- groo68, on 01/07/2009, -5/+3good, i was about to post "pics or it didnt happen"
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