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In a scene made familiar to Americans through the opening credits of thousands of M*A*S*H television reruns, a soldier looks skyward as a Bell H-13 prepares to evacuate a wounded soldier from a mine field near Chip'yong-ni. |
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Sergeant Sadri Ulke of the Turkish Brigade's heavy mortar company keeping in contact with an air observer plotting fire directions for his unit. |
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flashes show Chinese and friendly positions during a night action at a US outpost. The forces indicated by the first and fifth circles are in direct contact. Note the sandbagged position along the hilltop trench in the gore ground. the other photos also show fortifications common to Korea's positional warfare and the eroding pathway in front of the 25th Division bunker is marked with stands of communication wire to help minimize unscheduled tumbles down hill. a 155-mm. rifle of the 780th Field Artillery Battalition firing in support of 25th Infantry Division operations in the Mundung-ni Valley. Thursday, 7 August |