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:
For links to more pictures of the first months of the Korean
War, see:
For a precis of our Korean War images, and links to more
comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of that conflict,
see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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For other views of U.S. senior commanders during the first
months of the Korean War, see:
For links to more pictures of the first months of the Korean
War, see:
For a precis of our Korean War images, and links to more
comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of that conflict,
see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."
10 October 1999