The Korean War
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Contents
6 » To the Brink: MacArthur Crosses the Parallel
8 » Chosin: The Road from the Reservoir
10 » Nemesis: The Dismissal of MacArthur
11 » The Struggle on the Imjin
16 » Attrition: The War on the Hills
Appendix B:
Offers of Military Assistance for Korea by UN Members
Appendix C:
United Kingdom Forces in the Korean Theatre of War
Bibliography and a note on sources
List of illustrations
PLATES
1. President Harry S. Truman. (
The Bettmann Archive
)
2. Key international figures in the Korean crisis:
(a) Dean Acheson; (
The Bettmann Archive
)
(b) Clement Attlee; (
BBC Hulton Picture Library
)
(c) Ernest Bevin. (
BBC Hulton Picture Library
)
3. General Douglas MacArthur. (
The Bettman Archive
)
4. American infantry in the first weeks of war. (
US National Archives
)
5. (a) The face of defeat: men of the American 24th Division. (
National Archives
)
(b) A captured American soldier whose body was later found, bound and shot. (
National Archives
)
6. (a) The face of tragedy: Korean civilians. (
BBC Hulton Picture Library
)
(b) The face of fear: political prisoners in the hands of the South Koreans. (
BBC Hulton Picture Library
)
7. General Walton H. ‘Bulldog’ Walker with one of his divisional commanders. (
National Archives
)
8. The crew of HMS
Ocean
. (
Imperial War Museum
)
10. Inchon: men of the 1st Marine Division grapple the seawall. (
BBC Hulton Picture Library
)
11. US Marine artillery in action. (
Popperfoto
)
12. An American doctor tends a Korean civilian. (
BBC Hulton Picture Library
)
13. Refugees being questioned by South Korean and American military police. (
Popperfoto
)
14. (a) The road north: a British jeep surrounded by a crowd of villagers. (
Imperial War Museum
)
(b) The 38th Parallel. (
Imperial War Museum
)
15. Marshal Peng Te Huai and Kim Il Sung. (
Chinese National Army Museum
)
16. (a) The coming of the Chinese. (
Chinese National Army Museum
)
(b) The supply route across the Yalu. (
Chinese National Army Museum
)
17. (a) and (b) Chinese ‘volunteers’ in Korea. (
Chinese National Army Museum
)
18. Americans surrender to Chinese infantry. (
Chinese National Army Museum
)
19. US Marines rest between Chosin and the sea. (
Topham
)
20. General Edward M. Almond. (
National Archives
)
21. Chinese infantry enter the ruins of Seoul. (
Chinese National Army Museum
)
22. (a) Men of the Royal Ulster Rifles move forward with sten guns and grenades. (
Topham
)
(b) A column of porters wind their way up a Korean hillside. (
Imperial War Museum
)
23. US infantry amid a characteristic Korean winter landscape. (
Popperfoto
)
24. General Matthew Ridgway with one of his divisional commanders. (
National Archives
)
25. A soldier of the Gloucesters with communist prisoners. (
Imperial War Museum
)
26. A patrol of the British 29 Brigade. (
National Archives
)
27. The hills of the Imjin battle. (
Imperial War Museum
)
29. Brigadier Tom Brodie of 29 Brigade and Brigadier Basil Coad of 27 Brigade. (
Imperial War Museum
)
30. Lt.-Col. J. P. Carne. (
Imperial War Museum
)
31. (a) Chinese infantry making a night advance. (
Chinese National Army Museum
)
(b) Chinese infantry laying Russian-made boxmines. (
Chinese National Army Museum
)
32. The air war: (a) Communist pilots being briefed. (
Chinese National Army Museum
)
(b) The MiG 15. (
Jane’s Defence Weekly
)
(c) The Sabre. (
The Bettmann Archive
)
(d) A flight deck mishap on HMS
Ocean
off Korea. (
Imperial War Museum
)
(e) A North Korean bridge. (
Imperial War Museum
)
33. Exhausted men of British 29 Brigade, April 1951. (
Imperial War Museum
)
34. President Syngman Rhee with General James Van Fleet. (
National Archives
)
35. Troglodyte warfare: (a) A British mortar position. (
Imperial War Museum
)
(b) Chinese soldiers in one of the network of tunnels on the communist line. (
Chinese National Army Museum
)
36. British soldiers help to bring in a wounded American. (
Imperial War Museum
)
37. ROK and American troops on the move. (
Imperial War Museum
)