Guarding Pohang Base: an American soldier keeps watch from a fortified ridge overlooking burning village in the Pohang area of the Korean front as he covers comrades (center, under gun) patrolling hillside. A full South Korean division has been moved to this northern front to help hold important Pohang airfield now out of operation due to Reds' advance in area.

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Guarding Pohang Base: an American soldier keeps watch from a fortified ridge overlooking burning village in the Pohang area of the Korean front as he covers comrades (center, under gun) patrolling hillside. A full South Korean division has been moved to this northern front to help hold important Pohang airfield now out of operation due to Reds' advance in area.
Guarding Pohang Base: an American soldier keeps watch from a fortified ridge overlooking burning village in the Pohang area of the Korean front as he covers comrades (center, under gun) patrolling hillside. A full South Korean division has been moved to this northern front to help hold important Pohang airfield now out of operation due to Reds' advance in area.
Date1950
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto with applied pigment
DimensionsImage: 7 × 6 3/4 in. (17.8 × 17.1 cm) Sheet: 10 × 7 1/2 in. (25.4 × 19.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.93
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Markings Recto, bottom (typewritten): "(SE1-AUG.15) GUARDING POHANG BASE-An American soldier keeps watch from a fortified ridge overlooking burning village in the Pohang area of the Korean front as he covers comrades (center, under gun) patrolling hillside. A full South Korean division has been moved to this northern front to help hold important Pohang airfield now out of operation due to Reds' advance in area (APWirephoto) (jdc30145stf-md) 1950"
Verso, bottom left corner, red ink (stamp): "Aug 18 1950"
Verso, bottom right corner, red ink (stamp): "Cleveland News, Reference Department Cleveland Ohio" (upsidedown)
Verso, bottom left corner, blue ink (stamp): "Photo Engraving, 950 Aug 15 A M 11:13, The Cleveland News"
Published References Illustrated: Associated Press ID # 500816147
Inscribed Verso, top left corner (red pencil): "Geog File, Foreign, Korea, Pohang"
Verso, top left corner (pencil): "495"
Marines File Past Their Okinawa Dead: following their dedication of a sixth marine division cemetery on July 4th, fellow marines file past the graves of their fallen comrades looking for familiar names. The cemetery is on a hill overlooking one of Okinawa's beaches.
Marines File Past Their Okinawa Dead: following their dedication of a sixth marine division cemetery on July 4th, fellow marines file past the graves of their fallen comrades looking for familiar names. The cemetery is on a hill overlooking one of Okinawa's beaches.
Date: c. 1945
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2025.30.96
War-Weary Refugee: bent and worn by the shifting tide of war that twice swept over Pyongyang, and elderly North Korean woman plods wearily over the undestroyed span of a Taedong River bridge, as she flees south from the North Korean capital December 4 ahead of the advancing Chinese Reds.
War-Weary Refugee: bent and worn by the shifting tide of war that twice swept over Pyongyang, and elderly North Korean woman plods wearily over the undestroyed span of a Taedong River bridge, as she flees south from the North Korean capital December 4 ahead of the advancing Chinese Reds.
Date: 1950
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2025.30.95
Photo by Paul Salveson.
Bishkisché Set 11 (Bear Keeps Going / Cuts The Hair Rope / Full Belly / Good Now)
Wendy Red Star
Date: 2023
Medium: Acrylic, graphite, kitakata paper, coated pastel paper
Object number: 2024.20.1-4
At a memorial service for comrades killed earlier this week in a fierce battle at the Michelin rubber plantation in South Vietnam, two soldiers of the United States 1st infantry division held their weapons as they prayed for the dead
At a memorial service for comrades killed earlier this week in a fierce battle at the Michelin rubber plantation in South Vietnam, two soldiers of the United States 1st infantry division held their weapons as they prayed for the dead
Horst Faas
Date: December 9, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto with retouching
Object number: 2022.15.131
Unhappy Red: a wounded North Korean soldier captured during U.S. Marines' drive in Naktong River area, uses tree limb to support himself as he heads towards rear under escort of Pvt, Marvin A. Penny (left), Houston, Texas, and Pfc. Donald E. West, Pond Creek, Oklahoma.
Unhappy Red: a wounded North Korean soldier captured during U.S. Marines' drive in Naktong River area, uses tree limb to support himself as he heads towards rear under escort of Pvt, Marvin A. Penny (left), Houston, Texas, and Pfc. Donald E. West, Pond Creek, Oklahoma.
Date: 1950
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2025.30.94
A South Vietnamese soldier guided civilians from areas of street fighting in Southern Da Nang to the relatively safe rear. The homes of the people pictured in Hoa Vang village had been occupied by North Vietnamese troops
A South Vietnamese soldier guided civilians from areas of street fighting in Southern Da Nang to the relatively safe rear. The homes of the people pictured in Hoa Vang village had been occupied by North Vietnamese troops
Unknown artist
Date: November 1968
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto with applied pigment
Object number: 2022.15.290
Viet Cong The Burning Issue: American F100 jet drops two canisters of napalm toward a Viet Cong machine gun position on the bank of the Rach Beng river, 70 miles northwest of Saigon, as a soldier of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, who had been landed by helicopter wades through the tall grass in foreground. The Rach Beng here forms the border between South Vietnam and Cambodia. The infantrymen were landed some 400 yards from the border and moved in to capture hundreds of tons of Viet Cong supplies
Viet Cong The Burning Issue: American F100 jet drops two canisters of napalm toward a Viet Cong machine gun position on the bank of the Rach Beng river, 70 miles northwest of Saigon, as a soldier of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, who had been landed by helicopter wades through the tall grass in foreground. The Rach Beng here forms the border between South Vietnam and Cambodia. The infantrymen were landed some 400 yards from the border and moved in to capture hundreds of tons of Viet Cong supplies
Horst Faas
Date: May 3, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.128
In Full Battle Gear: as he arrives at a staging area at Dong Ha, South Vietnam, a United States Marine carries full battle gear plus a folding chair he scrounged somewhere. The Marine spent a comfortable night in the chair before climbing aboard a helicopter and flying into battle
In Full Battle Gear: as he arrives at a staging area at Dong Ha, South Vietnam, a United States Marine carries full battle gear plus a folding chair he scrounged somewhere. The Marine spent a comfortable night in the chair before climbing aboard a helicopter and flying into battle
Horst Faas
Date: 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.126
Office worker in front of a Xerox 9200 copy machine, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Office worker in front of a Xerox 9200 copy machine, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.80
Vietnamese Troops Eject Communist Infiltrators From Saigon Area: the remaining members, 30 men and one woman, of the badly beaten Viet Cong 308th main force Battalion are shown in Cholon after their surrender to Government forces. Seated (front row, center) is Vo Thi My, a NVA woman liaison cadre. On her left is Nguyen Van Gac, operational staff officer for the battalion. Approximately 70 percent of VC main force units are North Vietnamese regular soldiers
Vietnamese Troops Eject Communist Infiltrators From Saigon Area: the remaining members, 30 men and one woman, of the badly beaten Viet Cong 308th main force Battalion are shown in Cholon after their surrender to Government forces. Seated (front row, center) is Vo Thi My, a NVA woman liaison cadre. On her left is Nguyen Van Gac, operational staff officer for the battalion. Approximately 70 percent of VC main force units are North Vietnamese regular soldiers
Unknown artist
Date: June 1968
Medium: Vintage newswire
Object number: 2023.12.186
Amphibious Operation in Vietnam: up to his helmet in water but careful to keep his weapon and pack dry, a South Vietnam soldier struggled to regain his footing on a creek crossing during a major operation against the Communist Viet Cong recently in the Darlac Plateau area, about 160 miles northeast of Saigon. The sortie was carried out in heavy rain and through thick jungles in an effort to root out Communist guerrillas
Amphibious Operation in Vietnam: up to his helmet in water but careful to keep his weapon and pack dry, a South Vietnam soldier struggled to regain his footing on a creek crossing during a major operation against the Communist Viet Cong recently in the Darlac Plateau area, about 160 miles northeast of Saigon. The sortie was carried out in heavy rain and through thick jungles in an effort to root out Communist guerrillas
Horst Faas
Date: 1962
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.125
In Cambodia today, at the area of Angkor, miles of temples, statues and other works of antiquity are being uncovered from their jungle bed and opened up for tourist and scholarly interest. Some 600 different buildings, most temples of one sort or the other, show a skill in development that matched that of the ancient Egyptians. Canals, waterways and other water projects were but some creations about the greatest works: the temples. Here a tourist studies the Prah Palilay temple, cut loose from its jungle cover in the Royal Palace grounds of Angkor Thom
In Cambodia today, at the area of Angkor, miles of temples, statues and other works of antiquity are being uncovered from their jungle bed and opened up for tourist and scholarly interest. Some 600 different buildings, most temples of one sort or the other, show a skill in development that matched that of the ancient Egyptians. Canals, waterways and other water projects were but some creations about the greatest works: the temples. Here a tourist studies the Prah Palilay temple, cut loose from its jungle cover in the Royal Palace grounds of Angkor Thom
Horst Faas
Date: 1967
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.133