One of my uncles was a POW during the Korean War. They broke both of his arms during his "interrogation".

I spoke to a man about 20 years ago at the air show at Ellington Field in Houston.  He was at The Fifi B-29  he flew  them in WWII and  Korea. He said he thought he was scared flying over Japan in them.  He said flying them in Korea was 10 times worse because the Migs could literally fly up your ass and pull the trigger any time that they want to. He said the Japanese fighters could only occasionally get to them.

I will try and find the book he was selling  that he wrote about his time flying B-29s and post it.

Thoughts of Uncle Freddie. He was a front line medic in the 1st Cav. He was seriously wounded for the 3rd time 4/28/51 and died the next day.

So young. Such a waste.

Thanks for posting those. My granddad was a combat medic at the battle of heartbreak ridge and has the pictures to prove it. He's still driving at 90 years old.  I'll show him the website the next time I'm there.

Very cool.  I have one of those and had no idea what era it was from.

Grandfather ran a primary flying school for most of WW2, ended up in B29's off of Tinian in 45.

His son started in Thuds in Vietnam.

Must have just been something that one of them picked up from a surplus store or something back in the day.

I met a Korean War vet once who was a machine gunner.  Showed me a newspaper clipping where he was decorated for manning a machine gun against a Chinese human wave attack.  Story said he killed hundreds of Chinese soldiers.

He told me that soon after, his unit was overrun.  He and about ten Americans were captured.  They were marched back by three or four Chinese soldiers.  He was concerned that the Chinese would know about the news story and he'd be tortured.  The Chinese guards couldn't understand English.  One of the Americans started singing and the guards didn't stop him.  The song became a rhythmic escape plan.  

At the proper moment, the signal was given and the Americans overpowered their guards, killing them.  The Americans split up.  He and another soldier made it back to American lines.  He didn't know what happened to the others.

My father's picture below of the same plane, and some of the many that he worked on, as part of the 93rd Bomb Squadron.

hard to believe those choppers could actually fly.  They look like insects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_HRP_Rescuer

".... it was not unusual for the fabric covering to rip loose from the helicopter in flight, often entangling the rotor blades...."

Thank you Veterans!

I really enjoyed this thread so far. Anyone got more pics?

It was my privilege to serve there in peacetime.

Looking into NK from Panmunjom and the site of the tree trimming incident/killings.

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My grandfathers served in the Korean war, Army and Air Force. No pictures, though, unfortunately.

Jesus, 7th ID, still using water cooled 1919 MGs..wtf..