The Korean War (99 page)

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Authors: Max Hastings

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Chinese ‘Volunteers’ in Korea.

Americans surrender to Chinese infantry. This is almost certainly a posed propaganda picture, but its reality became grimly familiar in the winter of 1950.

Back from the reservoir: US Marines rest in the midst of their desperate march down the thin thread of frozen road between Chosin and the sea.

General Edward M. Almond, commander of the US X Corps.

Chinese infantry enter the ruins of Seoul.

Men of the Royal Ulster Rifles move forward with sten guns and grenades.

A column of porters wind their way up a Korean hillside. The porters, all conscripted civilians, provided vital assistance for the UN forces.

US infantry amid a characteristic Korean winter landscape.

General Matthew Ridgway with one of this divisional commanders. Note the grenade on his webbing, which became a personal hallmark.

A soldier of the Gloucesters with communist prisoners. The lack of tension among all concerned suggests that this, like so many ‘frontline’ pictures in all wars, was staged.

A patrol of the British 29 Brigade. Its composition vividly illustrates the mixed nationalities which operated together – here, British, American, Korean and Belgian.

A British soldier points out the hills on which the Gloucesters fought out their bitter battle in April 1951. He is standing on A Company’s position.

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