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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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22 November 1999