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

Command Activities, June - September 1950

This page features pictures of Senior U.S. Navy Commanders meeting in the United States and in the Korean War Zone from June into September 1950. It also provides a link to views of one of the crucial high command meetings of the year: The Joint Chiefs of Staff Meet with General MacArthur, August 1950.

For links to more pictures of the first months of the Korean War, see:

  • The North Korean Offensive, 25 June -- 15 September 1950.

    For a precis of our Korean War images, and links to more comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects 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 #: 80-G-416423

    USS Rochester (CA-124)


    Senior U.S. and British naval officers confer on board Rochester, flagship of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, during the early days of the Korean War. The original photograph is dated 1 July 1950.
    Those present are (from left to right):
    Captain A.D. Torlesse, RN, Commanding Officer of HMS Triumph;
    Rear Admiral John M. Hoskins, USN, Commander, Carrier Group, Seventh Fleet;
    Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, USN, Commander, Seventh Fleet; and
    Rear Admiral Sir William G. Andrewes, RN, Commander, British Commonwealth Forces.

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

    Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-707930

    Rear Admiral Edward C. Ewen, USN
    , Commander Carrier Division One, (left),
    Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, USN, Commander Seventh Fleet, (center) and
    Rear Admiral John M. Hoskins, USN, Commander Carrier Division Three

    Pose with a World globe, while conferring aboard a Seventh Fleet ship, circa August-December 1950.

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

    Online Image: 136KB; 740 x 625 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-427790

    Admiral Forrest P. Sherman
    , Chief of Naval Operations, (left)

    Talks with Admiral Arthur W. Radford, USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific and Pacific Fleet, during a press conference at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, in July 1950.

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

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-427791

    Admiral Forrest P. Sherman
    , Chief of Naval Operations, (center), and
    Admiral Arthur W. Radford, USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific and Pacific Fleet

    At a press conference at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, in July 1950.
    Note electronic gear on and near the table, including a case in lower left labeled "Columbia Broadcasting System".

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

    Online Image: 143KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     


    For more views of Senior Commanders during the Summer of 1950, see: The Joint Chiefs of Staff Meet with General MacArthur, August 1950.

    For links to more pictures of the first months of the Korean War, see:

  • The North Korean Offensive, 25 June -- 15 September 1950.

    For a precis of our Korean War images, and links to more comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects 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."


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    10 October 1999