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KOREA -
1956-57
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Shown here are photos I took while assigned
first to Headquarters 8th US Army in Seoul and then to Company A, 3rd Engineer
Bn. north of the Imjin River and finally to headquarters of the 3rd Engineer
Bn. of 24th Infantry Division. Also there are a few photos taken during drives
around Korea or flights to Pusan. Some of the photos are rather poor, but at
least they provide an idea of conditions in Korea in 1956-57.
Here is a link to a remarkable web site that features a huge amount of
information on the US Army in Korea.
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The parade ground at Youngsan compound -
Eighth Army Headquarters, Seoul Korea.
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The UN and Eighth Army Honor Guard in Seoul -
The soldier saluting is from the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Note the
Turkish soldier also in the composite platoon.
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Another view of the composite platoon of the
UN and Eighth Army honor guard - note Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Turkish
and Ethopian soldiers.
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The Eighth Army - UN command - honor guard at
headquarters in Seoul.
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The Honor Guard, Headquarters, Eighth Army,
Korea.
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The Eighth Army - UN - Honor Guard preparing
for a parade at Yongson in Seoul
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A section of the Honor Guard at UN
headquarters
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A parade at Yongson - Eighth Army Hqs in
Seoul.
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The BOQ at Eighth Army Headquarters in Seoul,
Korea
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Hanging out the laundry at the BOQ in Seoul.
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BOQ at Eighth Army Hqs in Seoul
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Eighth Army Hqs at Yongson military
reservation in Seoul
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US Eighth Army troops preparing for a parade
at Yongsan, Seoul
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The parade ground at Eighth Army Hqs.
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Parade at Eighth Army Hqs
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Parade ground at Eighth Army Hqs in Seoul
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General I. D. White - Eighth Army Commander -
taking review at Yongsan military reservation in Seoul
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Parade at Eighth Army - UN - Headquarters in
Seoul
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During monsoon season a huge flood on the Han
River raises the water level many feet, almost overtopping the major bridge.
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Camp Conner on edge of Seoul, Korea.
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The Engineer section building at Eighth Army
Headquarters, Youngon military reservation, Seoul.
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Camp Conner and Seoul, Korea
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View looking south west - Camp Wagner - the
company compound, Co. A. 3rd Engineers, from hill above the NCO quarters - with
mess hall in center of photo and company headquarters on small rise behind. The
Imjin River is in the background
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Placing insulation on a new quonset hut in
the A Company compound.
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Camp Wagner - The main 'street' of the
compound of A Company, 3rd Engineers - view looking toward the officer's
quarters at upper end of street, NCO quarters high on left and enlisted platoon
quarters on both sides.
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Camp Wagner - View of compound of Company A,
3rd Engineers - view from hill above the officer's quarters with hot shower
building in center forground and its coal fed boiler in small building adjacent
thereto. The cistern for water is behind the view point at the other end of the
pipeline. A driver with truck and water trailer was dedicated to full time runs
between the water point and the cistern. This was the only hot water shower
facility for miles around. Two platoon enlisted barracks on ledt and NCO
barracks on hill to right. Motor pool is at far end of the 'street'. Imjin
River is in far background.
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Summer time view of the compound of Company
A, 3rd Engineers - view from hill above the officer's quarters toward the Imjin
River.
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The beginning of the construction of
officer's quarters for Company A, 3rd Engineers.
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Winter comes to A company - view of the
completed officer's quarters with its wood extension to the basic metal hut.
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The addition to the standard metal hut for
Company A officers' quarters.
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The A Company commander (on left) and
executive officer, leaving officer's quarters for another day's work.
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Camp Wagner - View of the compound of Company
A, 3rd Engineers in winter. NCO barracks in forground, one enlisted platoon
barracks across the "street" and mess hall and company headquarters
to the right - The Imjin River is frozen in background.
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The maintenance shed in the company motor
pool area - the motor sergeant and mechanics could repair most everything on
the spot.
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Our A Company welder was a master artisan who
could fabricate most anything necessary thus precluding our having to send
equipment out for repair at a maintenance depot.
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The platoon is working to repair a bulldozer
near the new water point tower.
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More work needed to repair our bulldozer
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Moving dirt with bulldozer.
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Moving dirt - the daily occupation of our
bulldozer - Company A, 3rd Engineer Battalion.
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Dirt is never in the right place - loading a
platoon dump truck for fill needed on a road someplace.
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The bulldozer and truck shovel work together
to load dirt into the company dump truck - Company A, 3rd Engineers - Korea
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Using truck mounted shovel to load dirt on
dump truck.
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Camp Young - Another view of the bulldozer
and truck mounted shovel loading dirt - this is at the division recreation
center - note the baseball players near the dougout.
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Loading dirt on dump truck - 3rd Engineer Bn.
Korea
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Instructing a new operator on the bulldozer.
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The two platoon lowboy drivers taking a break
at motor stables in A Company motor pool.
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One of our 3rd Engineer Battalion truck
mounted shovels slightly off the road.
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A Company, 3rd Engineers, Bill Drake at
morning motor stables at company motor pool.
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A Company, 3rd Engineers, PFC Noles operating
his bulldozer.
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The company welder connecting a valve to a
water pipe for the water point.
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The platoon is working on the pipes for a new
water point.
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A new water point with pipe down to the Imjin
River.
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The platoon is continuing to instal the pipes
for a new water point - very tough going in frozen ground - but the pipe has to
be laid deep under ground. Note the Korean laborers and also the barbed wire
fence in background.
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The platoon is working on pipes for a new
water point - our company welder was an expert in his craft.
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Finishing work on the pipeline to the Imjin -
note the Korean laborer - we had many Koreans assigned to augment the platoon.
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The platoon is working on the pipe to draw
water from the Imjin River.
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Water Point #3 - built by Company A, 3rd
Engineers
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Water Point #3, constructed by A Company, 3rd
Engineer Bn.
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Using a bulldozer to fill in earth around a
very large culvert.
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Using bulldozer to cover a large culvert with
dirt.
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The platoon is preparing several small
culverts for later emplacement along our section of the roads north of Imjin
River.
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The platoon is unloading a new generator.
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Installing a new generator for the recreation
center
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Using the bulldozer to shift some steel beams
to be used as piles for a new bridge.
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Most piles are in place for another new
bridge in the regimental area
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The ROK engineers constructing a new bridge
for Route 14.
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Another completed bridge for the 24th
Infantry Division.
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Another view of the new bridge completed by
Company D, 3rd Engineers.
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Honker pontoon bridge site - The platoon
lowboy driver is bringing a ponton to the raft site on the Imjin.
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Delivering a pontoon section to the company
raft site on the Imjin. Pontoons are metal, open at top, but floats are
rubberized, pneumatic balloon type shapes filled with compressed air.
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The comander of Comany A, 3rd Engineers, Capt
Heard, checking out the M4A2 raft the company is constructing on the Imjin
River.
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A section of a raft build from pontoon bridge
sections by A Company, 3rd Engineers on Imjin river - this was to be an
emergency evacuation means in case of sudden invasion- view is to the north.
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Preparing a float for the raft made of float
bridge components - Company A, 3rd Engineers - on Imjin River
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Using the crane from a wrecker truck to lift
and move the pontoon for the raft.
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The A Company commander, with back to camera,
is checking out the assembled float bridge raft on the frozen Imjin River.
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Three A Company troops who just constructed
the M4A2 raft on the Imjin River.
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A company troops checking out the power boat
on the Imjin River - the river either is about to freeze or has just thawed.
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Checking out the company power boat on the
Imjin River.
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The A Company troops are enjoying a break
with the power boat on the Imjin River.
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The A Company troops are enjoying a swim and
day with the power boat on the Imjin River.
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More recreaction with the company power boat
on the Imjin River.
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A Company troops enjoying an outing on the
Imjin River.
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Bringing the power boat up to the pontons of
the A Company raft.
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Company A, 3rd Engineers having lunch in
field near ball field.
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Company A, 3rd Engineers, having a meal in
the field, Korea 1957.
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Company A, 3rd Engineers having lunch in
field near ball field.
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Company A, 3rd Engineers at softball.
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A Company, 3rd Engineers taking break at
softball game
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Company A, 3rd Engineers enjoying a softball
game.
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A Company,. 3rd Engineers at ball game.
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A few of the A Company softball team members.
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Freedom Bridge over the Imjin River - former
railroad bridge - it is on the main supply route and only remaining bridge
directly between Seoul and North Korea. Guarded by 19th Infantry Regiment - its
destruction in case of emergency from North Korean invasion was the mission of
our platoon of the 3rd Engineer Company.
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View of Freedom Bridge over the Imjin River -
looking south - in background - note that only the section across the river
remains intact.
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A view south toward Freedom Bridge just
behind the trees on the right. The truss section in center is a remaining part
of the destroyed section of the railroad bridge. We are using a bulldozer to
clear snow to open the supply route.
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Bridge over the Pukhan River in Korea. Toward
the north-east section of the DMZ
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Here I am checking out the Freedom Bridge
over the Imjin.
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Using bulldozer to clear snow from the MSR
just south of Freedom Bridge on the Imjin River.
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Helicopter landing on the parade field we
leveled for a review conducted for General Vittrup
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The massed colors pass in review for General
Vittrup - 6th Tank Battalion, 24th Infantry Division - we worked for several
days including nights to level this area for a parade ground.
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Review for General Vittrup, 24th Infantry
Division, Korea
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Review for General Vittrup, 24th Infantry
Division, Korea
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Review for General Vittrup, 24th Infantry
Division, Korea
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General Vittrup greeting General I. D. White
at the review.
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Review for General Vittrup, 24th Infantry
Division, Korea.
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Review for General Vittrup, 24th Division,
Korea.
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Review for General Vittrup, 24th Division,
Korea.
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Camp Peterson - Aerial view of Hqs compound
of the 3rd Engineer Bn. The officer's quarters are the three buildings at top
of hill. Ammunition dump is at lower left - Company C is above it over the hill
at left of photo with motor pool beyond.
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View from the officers' BOQ on hill above Hqs
of 3rd Engineers and Company C.
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Motorized grader and other engineer road
building equipment - 3rd Engineer Battalion - Korea
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Winter scene at newly constructed community
center #3 compound in Korea.
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Three of the platoon members visiting the PX
at the Community Center #3.
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Headquarters compound of 19th Infantry
Regiment north of Imjin River along the DMZ in Korea.
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Compound of 2nd Bn, 19th Infantry Regiment,
north of Imjin River along the DMZ in Korea. And on near side of the road is
the Camp Semper Fidelis - the Marine Corps DMZ police unit.
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The regimental tank battalion at a wash point
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A ROK tank stuck in a gorge
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A visit to observation post Mazie, maintained
by the 3rd Battalion of the 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division,
which Company A, 3rd Engineers supported along the DMZ north of the Imjin River
in Korea.
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Two of the platoon members at OP Mazie.
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Visiting OP Mazie for a view into North
Korea.
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A Company visiting Observation Post, Mazie
along the DMZ
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A Company visits Observation Post Mazie on
the DMZ
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North Korea seen from Observation Post Mazie
along the DMZ.
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A visit to Observation Post Mazie, waiting
our turn to look through the telescope into North Korea.
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A view of North Korea through the spotting
telescope at the observation post.
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The Libby Bridge over the Imjin River - the
main life line of the 19th Infantry Regiment
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Libby Bridge over the Imjin River - a
responsibility of Company A, 3rd Engineers.
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Unidentified bridge on the Imjin in winter
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A new NCO Club under construction at Camp
Casey, Korea
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Camp The 44th MASH (hospial) in the distance
near Hqs 3rd Engineer Bn.
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Guard Mount formation - Hqs 3rd Engineer Bn.
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Asphalt plant, 3rd Engineer Bn.
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Compound of the 15th AAA across the Imjin
River.
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Lts Cook and Maxie, 3rd Engineers, at Ring
Block, Korea.
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Helicopter landing pad near DMZ in Korea.
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Helicopter landing pad near DMZ in Korea.
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Winter on the Imjin River, Korea,
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The Libby Bridge over the Imjin River - the
main life line of the 19th Infantry Regiment
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Double Double Bailey Bridge on the upper Han
tan River - double exposure also.
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An example of a long and large double Bailey
Bridge constructed in northeast Korea on the upper course of the Han River.
Seen during recon drive in that region.
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Another bridge constructed by Army engineers
- note previous lower level bridge to left.
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A makeshift foot bridge replacing a destroyed
road bridge.
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A makeshift foot bridge replacing a destroyed
road bridge.
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Construction of a new NCO club at Camp Casey
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Ditch digger machine from the 36th Engineer
Group
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Community Center #3 viewed in the distance
across the Imjin River, Korea
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A newly built theater at the Community Center
#3.
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Lt Joe Freese. Company A, 3rd Engineers at
Community Center #3, Korea.
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Lt Joe Freese on road outside Community
Center #3
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Camp Jessup - A Quartermaster area near
Munsan ni, Korea
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campe Howze - Headquarters of 24th Infantry
Division north of Seoul Korea.
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Winter comes early and stays late along the
river in Korea.
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Wonderful young Korean children in Seoul.
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Korean children in a small roadway store.
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Typical Korean village - note piles of
firewood - the hills are seriously deforested due to collection of firewood.
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Korean civilian carrying typical load on
street outside the US Army compound in Seoul.
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Koreans are raising a telephone pole next to
a road.
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It is rice transplanting time a very laborous
process.
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Korean soldier proud of his catch - but did
he shoot it or buy it?
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Korean children by roadway near Suwon Korea.
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Jackson Compound, Uijongbu, Korea
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Near Uijongbu, Korea, typical village - power
sation in background
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Inspecting a new power station.
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New power station
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A house in Uijongbu, Korea
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Interesting statues found during drive around
Korea.
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Another view of interesting statues
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Here I am stopped at the 38th Parallel in
eastern Korea.
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Here I am with my driver as we drove around
Korea in spare time - we had to drive far to the east of our regimental area to
find a place where the US front line was north of the 38th Parallel.
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Two A company troops at the 38th Parallel
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Willard Noles and Van Valkenburgh - my
drivers - at the 38th Parallel.
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George Baurer viewing the marker at the 38th
Parallel in eastern Korea.
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Company A, troops visiting the 38th Parallel
in Korea.
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A Company soldiers during a visit to Camp
Saint Barbara, home of the Corps Artillery in Korea
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Chorwon dam in summer view over rice paddies.
This dam was far to the east of our regimental area, only reached during drive
around Korea.
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Chorwon dam in winter view across snow
covered rice paddies.
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Koreans working on the main road north from
Seoul through the mountain pass.
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Aerial view of a dam and lake in the moutains
of eastern Korea.
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Loading and unloading sacks of rice at Inchon
harbor.
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Amazing how the Korean men could carry such
loads
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A Korean pile driver being set up - note the
use of pipe for piles.
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Road repair, Korean style on a main road near
Inchon.
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A series of culverts have been implaced and a
temporary road built over them to provide a low level crossing which of course
will be under water during the high rain season.
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South gate of Seoul Korea.
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Blue Room, Chon Duk Palace, Seoul, Korea
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Visitors to the Duk Su Palace, Seoul.
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Visitors to the Chon Duk Palace, Seoul
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Visiting the Chon Duk Palace, Seoul
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Chon Duk Palace grounds, Seoul.
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Visiting the Chan Duk Palace in Seoul
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Street scene in Seoul, Korea
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Street scene in Seoul, Korea
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The Han River - Korea
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A ruined building in Seoul Korea
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The mountains in North Korea in back ground.
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U. S. Navy ship in Inchon harbor
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U. S. Navy ship with tugs in Inchon harbor
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Maryknoll Hospital under construction in
Pusan, Korea
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Maryknoll Hospital under construction in
Pusan, Korea
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Maryknoll Hospital under construction in
Pusan, Korea
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Maryknoll Hospital under construction in
Pusan, Korea
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ROK area at Pusan Korea.
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ROK tire and ordnance shop, Pusan. Korea
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ROK compound Pusan Korea.
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