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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-14194 (Color)

Operation "Fishnet", Korea, 1952

A Republic of Korea Navy officer and a U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team officer question a captured North Korean fisherman about the location of fishing nets off the enemy coast. They are part of Operation "Fishnet", intended to reduce Communist forces' food supplies by destroying North Korean fishing nets.
Photograph is dated 16 September 1952.

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

Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 540 pixels

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15 November 1999