page 6[the third period of the Korean war]

Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell entertaining an infantry division in late October 1950. The show was done so close to the front that the troops still had their personal weapons with them.

Top> Marilyn Monroe with a star-struck airman at Brady Field in southern Japan. Marilyn appears to have sprained her right thumb, but it is likely that there was no shortage of medical personnel willing to assist her.

Lab technicians of the 548th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron processing thousands of aerial photographs during a graveyard shift. The quality of Chinese camouflage discipline was so high that overworked photo interpreters and on the US intelligence assets located less than a third of the massive strike force gathering to attack UN forces.

 Soldiers of the CCF Fourth Field Army during the waning days of the Chinese Civil War. Major elements of this army were later sent to Korea. Unlike the NKPA, which was a relatively heavy combat organization built along Soviet lines and armed with an abundance of Soviet equipment, the CCF was a light force whose soldiers were well trained in infiltration tactics. It was a tough, seasoned force armed with a conglomeration of Japanese, British, Soviet and American arms captured or supplied to them during the previous decades of constant flighting. The soldier in the foreground is armed with an American-made ,45-caliber Thompson sub-machinegun, a weapon that the Chinese Communists had accumulated in such large quanties that they manufactured special slotted aprons for holding large numbers of bullet clips for their Tommy gunners.