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USS Missouri (BB-63) Fires a salvo of 16-inch shells from turret # 2 while bombarding Chongjin, North Korea, in an effort to cut enemy communications, October 1950. Chongjin is only 39 miles from North Korea's northern border.
Navy Photo #: 80-G-421049

Vought F4U-4B "Corsair" Fighters, of Fighter Squadrons 113 and 114 (VF-113 & VF-114) Prepare for launching aboard USS Philippine Sea (CV-47), during strikes on North Korean targets, circa 19 October 1950. Note small bombs, with fuse extensions, on the planes' wings.
22 February 1951.  Korea.

Navy Photo #: 80-G-420926

Korean War Carrier Air Strikes
A fuel or ammunition train burns near Kumchon, North Korea, after being hit by planes from USS Valley Forge (CV-45). Photographed on the morning of 22 July 1950.
Navy Photo #: NH 96977

USS Toledo (CA-133)
Eight-inch shells and powder charges on a barge alongside the starboard quarter, as Toledo replenished her ammunition supply in Sasebo Harbor, Japan, after combat operations off Korea, circa July-October 1950. Crewmen are carrying the powder cans into position to be hoisted aboard the cruiser.
Navy Photo #: NH 96905

Inchon Invasion, September 1950
An LST slips into Inchon harbor in the early hours of 15 September 1950, just prior to the landings there.
Navy Photo #: 80-G-423206

Inchon Invasion, September 1950
First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, USMC, leads the 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines over the seawall on the northern side of Red Beach, as the second assault wave lands, 15 September 1950. Wooden scaling ladders are in use to facilitate disembarkation from the LCVP that brought these men to the shore. Lt. Lopez was killed in action within a few minutes, while assaulting a North Korean bunker. Note M-1 Carbine carried by Lt. Lopez, M-1 Rifles of other Marines and details of the Marines' field gear.

Navy Photo #: NH 96876

Opening of Wonsan, October 1950
Republic of Korea minesweeper YMS-516 is blown up by a magnetic mine, during sweeping operations west of Kalma Pando, Wonsan harbor, on 18 October 1950. This ship was originally the U.S. Navy's YMS-148, which had served in the British Navy in 1943-46.
Navy Photo #: 80-G-423625

USS Valley Forge (CV-45)
Crewmen use flight deck tractors with power brooms to sweep snow from the carrier's flight deck, during operations off Korea, circa early 1951. Photo is dated 8 May 1951, but Valley Forge ended her second Korean War deployment in late March of that year. Plane parked in the foreground is a F4U-4 "Corsair" fighter. Those on the forward flight deck are an AD "Skyraider" attack plane and a HO3S helicopter.

Navy Photo #: 80-G-428267

"Weapons Company, in line with Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, trying to contact the temporarily cut off Fox Company in a glancing engagement to permit the 5th and 7th Marines to withdraw from the Yudam-ni area. Nov. 27, 1950."
Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.
Navy Photo #: NH 97023

"Leathernecks inch forward under fire on the central Korean front"
Quoted from the original photo caption. This view was taken in late 1950 or early 1951, and was published in "All Hands" magazine's May 1951 issue.

Navy Photo #: NH 97032

Hungnam Evacuation, December 1950
Shipping off Hungnam, 10 December 1950, as the evacuation of troops and supplies commenced.
Navy Photo #: 80-G-434918

Hungnam Evacuation, December 1950
Some of the 14,000 Korean refugees crowded on board the SS Meredith Victory in December 1950, as she transported them from Hungnam to South Korea.

Navy Photo #: NH 95597

Thai frigate Prasae Aground
Stranded behind enemy lines on the Korean east coast, January 1951. She had gone ashore in a snowstorm on 7 January and had to be destroyed. A helicopter and several U.S. Navy ships are offshore covering salvage operations. Prasae was formerly the British corvette Betony and the Indiana Navy's Sind.
Navy Photo #: 80-G-432568

Evacuation of Inchon, December 1950 - January 1951
Port facilities at Inchon, South Korea, are destroyed as U.N. forces evacuate the city in the face of the Chinese Communist advance.
Photograph is dated 4 January 1951. The final evacuation of Inchon took place on 5 January.
Navy Photo #: 80-G-425472

Hungnam Evacuation, December 1950
Marines boarding USS Bayfield (APA-33) at Hungnam, for transportation out of North Korea.
Man at left is carrying a Russian Mosin-Nagant carbine in addition to his M1. This photograph was released under date of 20 December 1950.
Navy Photo #: NH 97060.

Evacuation of Inchon, December 1950 - January 1951
Port facilities at Inchon, South Korea, are destroyed as U.N. forces evacuate the city in the face of the Chinese Communist advance.
Photograph is dated 4 January 1951. The final evacuation of Inchon took place on 5 January.
Navy Photo #: 80-G-K-11771

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