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Posted: 10/23/2021 7:12:09 PM EDT
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This is a cool thread.
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Posted: 10/23/2021 7:20:46 PM EDT
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Yep cool thread!
Any armor colored pics? I don’t know what it is, possibly the terrain, but the photos from Korea always seem grittier than wwii photos. |
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Posted: 10/23/2021 7:37:38 PM EDT
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Thanks for posting. Great and interesting pictures!
I found out last week at my Uncle's funeral he served on board a carrier during the Korean war. No Idea what he did but he was not a pilot as far as I know. I knew he had been in the Navy but had not heard much about when until his funeral. He was 88, and sadly a lot of people who were there like him are no longer with us. |
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Posted: 10/23/2021 8:08:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What's the story of the bi plane? That's cool. That's a Japanese Tachikawa Ki-9 , Allied code name “Spruce” Both the U.S. and the Soviets captured many intact Japanese aircraft when occupied their respective halves of Korea. These aircraft were used by both North and South Korea during the war. The South Koreans used them for training mostly. Odd that that plane has U.S. markings on the fuselage and South Korea markings on the wings |
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Posted: 10/23/2021 8:25:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You guys notice the Mig 15 sitting on the field? Defector?  Also a defector? https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/benzobak3/41122584/73136/73136_original.jpg @sgthatred Yep same number as the one NORK No Kum-sok defected in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-sok Chuck Yeager tested it in Okinawa. It's in the big museum in Dayton... 
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Posted: 10/23/2021 8:35:19 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/23/2021 8:36:27 PM EDT
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Oh yeah. Fantastic thread. Korean Air War was best air war.
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Posted: 10/23/2021 8:50:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/23/2021 9:01:43 PM EDT
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Very cool pictures. The air war aspect is not as well known.
My great uncle was supposed to deploy to Korea just before the war started, during the period where all of the borders and boundaries were being hashed out right before the fighting began. He died in a hunting accident while home on leave. The family felt that it was better for him to have died at home than be killed in combat in Korea. Pretty messed up perspective but I get it. I knew a couple of Marines who were infantrymen in Korea. They had some real stories. One almost got killed by friendly artillery fire. Shrapnel destroyed his M-2 carbine. That pissed him off the most because he loved that little rifle and ended up having to carry an M-1. One used to go hunting with the guys but never killed anything. Said a few times that he'd killed enough in Korea for a lifetime... |
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Posted: 10/23/2021 9:02:26 PM EDT
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This was pretty awesome. Thank you.
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Posted: 10/23/2021 9:54:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This was pretty awesome. Thank you. |
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Posted: 10/23/2021 9:59:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A Sturmovik in Korea? Yep, the Norks used the early in the war. It was an IL-10, a updated IL-2. |
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Posted: 10/23/2021 10:13:48 PM EDT
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Since we have a WWI pic thread, WWII pic thread and Vietnam thread, perhaps this should be our Korean War thread.
    
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Posted: 10/23/2021 10:32:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/23/2021 10:44:15 PM EDT
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All those poor corsairs.
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Posted: 10/23/2021 10:46:00 PM EDT
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Crazy they were still using P51's during that war!
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Posted: 10/23/2021 10:57:58 PM EDT
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Thanks for the pics! Best thread I've seen in a long time, loved the aircraft especially the F-86's.
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Posted: 10/23/2021 10:59:35 PM EDT
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Awesome thread.
Rated Epic. |
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Posted: 10/23/2021 11:37:51 PM EDT
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The B-45 was a surprise to me. I had no idea they were involved in Korea
Lots of neat photos |
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Posted: 10/24/2021 7:10:01 AM EDT
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 Attached File Attached FileAnd even more interesting than just Navions in Korea,an Army 3rd Infantry Division Navion being held back before taking off from a carrier  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/24/2021 7:21:11 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/24/2021 7:28:19 AM EDT
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Super cool thread
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Posted: 10/24/2021 7:33:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What is the nose of this A-26 all about. at first I thought it might be a radar night fighter set up but they have bombs hung on it. Maybe a search light? https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/benzobak3/41122584/18352/18352_original.jpghttps://ic.pics.livejournal.com/benzobak3/41122584/18503/18503_original.jpg Not radar,infrared. It was used for leading night interdiction/train hunting. Some B-26s did carry search lights  Attached FileI’m trying to find a photo I have somewhere of B-26 crews showing that the USAF was still not entirely integrated in Korea but having trouble finding it -place saver for it. |
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Posted: 10/24/2021 7:48:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Just guessing here, but I assume this is a modified TFB that they used to ferry pilots that emergency landed on land back to the carriers? https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/benzobak3/41122584/14415/14415_original.jpg Carrier Onboard Delivery,flew replacement pilots and people,mail,parts…The airframes were the same modifications as the ASW Avengers. They were used at times for supply drop missions as well.  Attached FileThere were a few TBMs that retained their original turrets though. The Marines had some TBM-3Q electronic warfare planes and there were a couple night attack TBM-3Es that the Navy used as night fighters against “Bedcheck Charlie” as they had radar to find them and could fly much slower than fighters to better match their speed. There is a very,very brief view of a 3Q or 3E on an airfield at Chosin Reservoir I have seen, it’s not long enough to catch exactly what the plane is but it clearly has the turret. It was being used to evacuate wounded. 3Q in Korea. You can tell it’s a Q by the little white antenna on lower fuselage where electronics were put down in the lower gun position.  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/24/2021 4:05:21 PM EDT
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Thanks for the link.
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Posted: 10/24/2021 4:18:14 PM EDT
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I knew two men who served in Korea. One in the Marine Corp, the other in the Army. Both spoke about the fear they experienced seeing huge swarms of Chinese attacking.
It really doesn’t get the attention that other conflicts do. Thanks for the pics OP. |
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Posted: 10/24/2021 5:49:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep, the Norks used the early in the war. It was an IL-10, a updated IL-2.  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/24/2021 6:03:13 PM EDT
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Thanks OP.
Does anybody here remember the black and white video on YouTube about how they cleaned up and repaired equipment from the pacific islands during Korea. I’ve tried finding it with no luck |
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Posted: 10/25/2021 10:58:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @sgthatred Yep same number as the one NORK No Kum-sok defected in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Kum-sok Chuck Yeager tested it in Okinawa. It's in the big museum in Dayton... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/MiG-15_USAF.jpg Amazing to know it had solid roots in the work of German scientists during and right after WW2. |
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Posted: 10/25/2021 11:06:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Crazy they were still using P51's during that war! I mean they were only like 10 years old (at best, P51D was like 7 years old at the time, P51H would have been 5 years old) and technically those were F-51's |
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Posted: 10/25/2021 11:06:47 PM EDT
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Cool thread. My great uncle was in the Korean War. He didn't really talk much about it although he was big into military history etc. The only things I remember him telling me was that he was machine gunner and he got a lot of them. Then he said he use a grenade in combat. Then his best friend was from San Francisco and had a Thompson.
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Posted: 10/25/2021 11:16:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Cool thread. My great uncle was in the Korean War. He didn't really talk much about it although he was big into military history etc. The only things I remember him telling me was that he was machine gunner and he got a lot of them. Then he said he use a grenade in combat. Then his best friend was from San Francisco and had a Thompson. It was a really brutal war, something like 10% of all Koreans living at the time were killed (compare this to like 3-4% per captia for WW2), more like 15-20% in the north where most of the fighting was. Pretty much every major city in Korea was razed to the ground during the war. Americans don't really appreciate it since it was just some distant war and the us lost 30k servicemen, but koreans lost like 3-4 million. The Koreans are still digging up bodies and sending home remains to this day, they estimate that 90% or so are still not recovered. |
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Posted: 10/25/2021 11:17:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thanks OP. Does anybody here remember the black and white video on YouTube about how they cleaned up and repaired equipment from the pacific islands during Korea. I’ve tried finding it with no luck Lotsa Japanese companies rebuilt US equipment like trucks and jeeps. |
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Posted: 10/25/2021 11:22:31 PM EDT
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Lots of interesting pictures!!! Thanks for posting!
My step father was shot down on a mission that did not exist and was a POW for nine months!!!! Rough times for him. |
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Posted: 10/25/2021 11:22:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I didn't know that several of those planes were used in Korea What surprised me was that there are no P-47s. It would seem to me that they would have been used in the ground attack role. |
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Posted: 10/25/2021 11:42:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What surprised me was that there are no P-47s. It would seem to me that they would have been used in the ground attack role. This was due to several reasons: F-51s equipping western half of the US Air Guard squadrons while those in the east had F-47s. It just made sense to move the closer planes across. There were also many more Mustangs and more importantly better stocks of Mustang parts. The Thunderbolt also used more fuel and was overall more expensive to operate. There were a couple other planes that just barely missed out. The last Black Widows left Japan in June,1950 and USS Leyte IIRC had Bearcats onboard when returning to Hawaii as the war started. I have read that a couple F8F-2P recon planes flew in the early days of the war but have never seen photos of them or better confirmation. |
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Posted: 10/25/2021 11:47:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lotsa Japanese companies rebuilt US equipment like trucks and jeeps. There was a Japanese minesweeping flotilla. |
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Posted: 10/25/2021 11:54:57 PM EDT
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My Dad was an Aviation Ordnanceman on P2V Neptunes flying in Korea. Said they would download all the depth charges but one, replace them with 500lb bombs and go on patrol. Up and down the coast, oops, no Russki subs! So then they would head over North Korea and look for train tracks and tunnels to drop the bombs on, and head home with that one depth charge still onboard. Right up until the Navy found out they were flying the most high tech sub hunter in the world over rice paddies, and that came to an end.
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Posted: 10/26/2021 12:03:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56204/0B810A99-58BB-4A30-A4D4-F5506BD3A3C1_jpe-2141631.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56204/86507C27-D78A-4339-942E-F0951C1D875F_jpe-2141632.JPG And even more interesting than just Navions in Korea,an Army 3rd Infantry Division Navion being held back before taking off from a carrier https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56204/E363CBE7-D0D1-4A11-B26D-8C4401794663_jpe-2141640.JPG No shit. Learn something new. But it was a large scale conflict so I would guess if it was in the inventory, it was used. For example, I didn't know F-94s were deployed to Korea. |
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Posted: 10/26/2021 12:05:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Great post OP. Nose art definitely needs a comeback like the above pkster stated. That would be nice but it wouldn't take long for some of the idiots to ruin it for everyone else by doing something stupid. |
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Posted: 10/26/2021 12:22:12 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/26/2021 12:27:50 AM EDT
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awesome thread! Ive always been interested in the Korean war
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Posted: 10/26/2021 7:26:49 AM EDT
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B-26 crew photo I spent 2 days looking for.
 Attached FileReally interesting AFV,M39 weapons carrier-turretless M18 Hellcat-with a quad .50.  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/26/2021 1:51:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lotsa Japanese companies rebuilt US equipment like trucks and jeeps. If I remember correctly, it showed them pulling tanks and equipment, that had been sitting and rusting for 5+ years, out of junk piles on god knows what islands. |
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Posted: 10/26/2021 7:54:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/28/2021 7:24:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thanks OP. Does anybody here remember the black and white video on YouTube about how they cleaned up and repaired equipment from the pacific islands during Korea. I’ve tried finding it with no luck @M1Zeppelin Is this the one you remember? The Big Picture |
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Posted: 10/28/2021 7:32:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/28/2021 7:55:00 PM EDT
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Great pics, thanks!
Having humped a ruck all over a small part of Korea the guys who fought there have my respect- it's rugged country and the winters are brutal. We saw a lot of unexploded ordinance, especially after the monsoons. |
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Posted: 10/28/2021 8:07:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I didn’t see anything saying they had to be old pictures… https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/314960/870E9DEE-28AA-422C-BDC1-BB24E0070EFF_jpe-2141238.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/314960/9763234E-A6DA-4D88-AC71-B2CE2FAD728B_jpe-2141239.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/314960/3A1E7251-6928-4F9B-8D7D-98414D12FB73_jpe-2141240.JPG  Attached File Attached FileIt gets cold there |
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Posted: 10/28/2021 8:22:42 PM EDT
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Thanks OP!
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