The Images Tell A Story: Korean War

 In this in September 1950 file photo, United Nations (Read American)  troops fire from a barricade in Seoul, South Korea. The building at left carries portraits of Soviet leader Josef Stalin and North Korean leader Kim Il Sung.

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An American soldier consoles acomrade who lost a friend in action.. The man sitting beside is preparing tags for the bodies.

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1950. American soldiers take cover from North Korean snipers (left behind by withdrawing North Koreans to hamper American advance into Seoul)

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 September, 1950. An US soldier clambers over a barrier in war torn Seoul. The North Koreans had held it for three months.

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 Same time. Moving through Seoul.

 October 1950. American paratroopers jump into North Korean territory to trap withdrawing North Korean troops.

October 1950.  North Korean POW in Seoul.

 Bodies of some 400 Korean civilians lie in and around trenches in Taejon's prison yard during the Korean War in Sept. 1950. The victims were bound and slain by retreating Communist forces before the 24th U.S. Division troops recaptured the city Sept. 28. Witnesses said that the prisoners were forced to dig their own trench graves before the slaughter.

July 1950. US troops alight at Pohang, on the eastern coast in Korea

July 5, 1950. American soldiers leave the railroad station at Taejon, South Korea, en route to the battlefront.

In this Dec. 4, 1950 photo, residents from Pyongyang, North Korea, and refugees from other areas crawl perilously over the shattered girders of the city's bridge as they flee south across the Taedong River to escape the advance of Chinese Communist troops. The Chinese entered the Korean War as allies of North Korea. U.S. troops battled on the side of South Korea. Begun in June 25, 1950, the war ended on July 27, 1953, with a military demarcation line set near the 38th parallel where it started.

In this photograph taken by the U.S. Army in April 1951, provided by the U.S. National Archives, South Korean troops shoot political prisoners near Daegu, South Korea.

July 1950. An American 155 mm gun booms

Chinese POW in the northern mountains in Korea. December 1950

April 1951. More Chinese POW

Seoul 1950. A scene of strife and destruction.

An American soldier takes an injured N. Korean soldier for medical help

Koreans fleeing the advancing Chinese troops are perched perilously between coaches of a freight train

 General Douglas McArthur, chief of the UN forces, sitting on the bridge of the warship U.S. McKinley "during his arrival at Inchon Harbor in September 1950 Behind him, left to right: Commander U.S. Seventh Fleet, Vice Admiral Arthur D. Strabbl; brigadier general  Wright and General Edward M. Almond

An American B-29 bombs industrial North Korean targets

American patrol in 1952