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Authors: Max Hastings

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The Korean War (100 page)

Men of the Gloucesters at a church parade taken by Padre Sam Davies before the Imjin battle.

The officers commanding the two British brigades in Korea in April 1951: (
left
) Tom Brodie of 29 Brigade; (
right
) Basil Coad of 27 Brigade.

Lt. Col. J. P. Carne, commanding 1st Gloucesters at the battle of the Imjin.

Chinese infantry making a night advance.

Laying Russian-made boxmines.

The air war: Communist pilots being briefed for a mission over Korea.

The MiG 15, the first communist jet fighter, whose intervention in Korea in November 1950 sent ripples of alarm throughout the West.

The Sabre, the outstanding fighter of the Korean War, which made a succession of US pilots ‘aces’.

A flight deck mishap on HMS
Ocean
off Korea. The victim is a Sea Fury. Accidents remained almost as a peril as enemy action throughout the war’s intensive carrier operations.

One of the North Korean bridges which remained critical targets of UN air attack throughout the conflict.

Exhausted men British 29 Brigade, April 1951.

President Syngman Rhee of South Korea with (on his left) General James Van Fleet, successor to Ridgeway as commander of Eighth Army.

Troglodyte warfare. A British mortar position, dug deep into the sort of bunker occupied by both sides once the conflict stabilised in the summer of 1951.

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