Photo #: NH 97136
Bombed North Korean Railway Bridge
"Task Force 77 Pilots Score Again -- On another raid Skyraiders
and Corsairs knocked out two more of the original steel spans
with 2000 and 1000 pound bombs leaving the vital supply link
a mass of ruin. Replacement of these two spans with wooden construction
will leave more than half of the structure vulnerable to napalm
attack by the task force flyers. The halting of traffic over
spans such as this along vital supply routes gives UN troops
fighting in Korea a decided advantage over their enemy."
Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far
East, under date of 10 August 1951.
Note craters near the bridge, wooden cribbing used to repair
the spans at the left, and bridge members blown to the river
bed below.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands"
collection at the Naval Historical Center.
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