U.S. Army offers rare collection of Korean War images online

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SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Army has posted a rare collection of photos
and videos from the Korean War on the Internet, offering an extensive look at a
conflict that razed the peninsula nearly six decades ago.
The archives, released by the Installation Management Command Korea, include some
40 videos and 150 still photos captured by military cameramen and photographers,
and chronicle the 1950-53 conflict that left millions of soldiers and civilians
dead on both sides.
Posted on YouTube and photo-sharing site Flickr, the images retrieved from the
Pentagon are in black and white except one video clip in color, and show the
faces of the war through refugees, battles, ravaged cities, truce talks, wounded
soldiers, air strikes, and tanks and heavy artillery in action.
The clips include documentaries produced by the U.S. Army following the war, such
as "The Army in Action," and the images can be found at http://www.
youtube.com/warinkorea and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imcomkorea/sets/72157607808414225.
The U.S. fought on the South Korean side and has about 28,500 troops stationed
here as a legacy of the war that ended in a truce rather than a peace treaty.
samkim@yna.co.kr
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