Technically, these people are right from the American perspective, yet North and South Korea were clearly engaged in a war. In this undated photo from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, distributed by Korea News Service, North Korean combatants plunge together with the tank unit in Seoul during the Korean War.īecause of this and because the United States never formally declared war on North Korea, many people contend that the Korean War should be called the Korean Conflict rather than referred to as a war.
Although many of the soldiers sent to South Korea were members of the United States military, they were under the direct control of the United Nations.
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The United Nations granted permission to the United States to send troops to the two Koreas to free South Korea from North Korea’s military occupation. Determined to stop North Korea, the United States sought permission from the United Nations to support the South Korean government military. With North Korea’s invasion of South Korea, the United States feared the spread of communism. By invading South Korea, North Korea hoped to reunite the two nations as a single country under communism. After the war, Korea became two countries. Prior to World War II’s conclusion, North and South Korea had been a single country known as Korea. This conflict began on June 25, 1950, when North Korea, a communist nation, invaded South Korea. The Korean War was one of several military conflicts that occurred during the Cold War, as the United States and its allies attempted to stop the spread of communism. WWI 1st Division Photo Identification, Robert B.With her brother on her back, a war-weary Korean girl trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea.The French 111th Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Verdun.A Mormon Missionary in WWI: Battling Spanish Influenza in American Samoa.Taken in Fort Benning, GA, these slides were shipped home in January of 1945 to only be opened in 2016! Enjoy.įollow Portraits of War on Search for: Recent Posts I took a photo of the seal, opened the box and immediately scanned them! Please enjoy the following 12 slides that are only seeing the light of day 70+ years later….
One box of the Kodak-developed slides were unopened. In this rare case, I was able to purchase a large set of Kodachrome slides taken by a US serviceman before he shipped off to war. With the small percentage of the world populace that used color photography, an even smaller percentage of the slides have been passed down or purchased by people with the ability to scan and post them to the internet. Taken at a time of incredible social and political upheaval, these images capture an era that will never be seen in the same light or colors again. These Kodachrome slides are typically regarded in the field of vintage color photo collecting as the crème de la crème of vintage color. Many of my followers know that I actively collect WWII color slides, predominantly those developed by the Eastman Kodak Company.
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