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

The Joint Chiefs of Staff Meet with General MacArthur, August 1950

On 21 August 1950, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest P. Sherman and Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins flew to Tokyo to represent the Joint Chiefs of Staff in meetings with General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and other Pacific area and Korean War commanders. On the agenda was General MacArthur's plan to reverse the tide of the conflict with an amphibious landing at Inchon, Seoul's port city. Over the next few days, he was able to persuade the other participants, virtually all of them skeptics, that his strategically inspired concept would be, if not easy to execute, at least "not impossible". These meetings were important precursers to the historic Inchon Invasion of mid-September 1950.

This page features pictures taken when members of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff came to Japan to meet with General Douglas MacArthur. It also includes views of Admiral Forrest Sherman visiting ships operating off Korea.

For other views of U.S. senior commanders during the first months of the Korean War, see:

  • Command Activities, June - September 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-422487

    Admiral Arthur W. Radford, USN
    , Commander in Chief, Pacific and Pacific Fleet, (left) and
    General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Commander in Chief, Far East

    Confer while awaiting the arrival of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at Tokyo, Japan, 21 August 1950.

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

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: 80-G-422491

    Major General Edward M. Almond, U.S. Army
    , Commanding General, Tenth Corps, (left)and
    Lieutenant General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., USMC, Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific

    Confer at Tokyo, Japan, while awaiting the arrival of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 21 August 1950.

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

    Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: 80-G-422492

    General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
    , Commander in Chief, Far East, (center)

    Greets Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins (left) and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, as members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff arrive at an Tokyo, Japan, airfield, for conferences concerning future operations in Korea, 21 August 1950.

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

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: 80-G-430093

    Admiral Forrest P. Sherman
    , Chief of Naval Operations,

    Addresses the crew of USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) during his visit to ships and Navy installations in Japan and Korea, 23 August 1950.

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

    Online Image: 83KB; 605 x 740 pixels

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

     


    For other views of U.S. senior commanders during the first months of the Korean War, see:

  • Command Activities, June - September 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."


    Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

    10 October 1999