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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The Korean War, 1950-1953 --

The War Stabilizes, 25 January - 30 June 1951 --
Close Air Support

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This page features images related to Korean War close air support activities from 25 January through 30 June 1951.

For other views of land operations during this period, see:

  • Land Operations, January-June 1951.

    For access to other views of the stabilization period of the Korean War, see:

  • The War Stabilizes, 25 January - 30 June 1951 -- Overview and Selected Images.

    For a precis of our Korean War images, and links to more comprehensive pictorial coverage of that conflict, see:

  • The Korean War, June 1950 - July 1953 -- Introductory Overview and Special Image Selection.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 97106

    "Vigil on Korean Ridge Top"


    "Marine Leathernecks of a Forward Air Control Unit for the U.S. Marines with the First Marine Division in Korea scan the skies from a rugged ridge, on the alert for incoming close-air support planes that continue to hammer at the Chinese Red troop concentrations just a few thousand yards beyond in the rugged Korean terrain."
    Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 1 July 1951.
    Note backpack radio carried by one Marine, while another wears earphones and holds the microphone.

    Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 121KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97039

    Korean War Close Air Support, 1951


    Aerial photograph taken by Commander Richard C. Merrick, Commanding Officer, Air Group 19, based aboard USS Princeton (CV-37), circa 11 May 1951, with drawn lines and descriptive text added by photo interpreters. It shows the effect of Navy close air support on Chinese Communist forces engaging U.S. troops northwest of Seoul.
    For the full caption originally released with this photograph see: Photo #: NH 97039 (extended caption).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 148KB; 740 x 625 pixels

     


    For other views of land operations during this period, see:

  • Land Operations, January-June 1951.

    For access to other views of the stabilization period of the Korean War, see:

  • The War Stabilizes, 25 January - 30 June 1951 -- Overview and Selected Images.

    For a precis of our Korean War images, and links to more comprehensive pictorial coverage of that conflict, see:

  • The Korean War, June 1950 - July 1953 -- Introductory Overview and Special Image Selection.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


    Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

    8 October 2000