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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-687597

"Carlson's Canyon" Bridge Attacks, March-April 1951


Photograph "Carlson's Canyon # 10", taken on 20 March 1951, showing the growth of the stockpile of wooden ties being accumulated for reconstruction of the bridge. It had been hit by a 4th set of carrier air strikes on 15 March, destroying reconstruction work done following Navy air attacks on 3 March.
This railway bridge-tunnel complex was located south of Kilchu, in northeastern Korea.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 171KB; 740 x 535 pixels

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16 November 1999