Guarding Pohang Base
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Guarding Pohang Base

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Guarding Pohang Base

August 16, 1950
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.2 x 21.5 cm (6 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.)
Paper: 18.1 x 22.7 cm (7 1/8 x 8 15/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
Inscriptions [paper attached to print] recto (ink): Korean War / 8748 D / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / GUARDING POHANG BASE / AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KEEPS WATCH FROM A / FORTIFIED RIDGE OVERLOOKING BURNING VILLAGE / IN THE POHANG AREA ON THE NORTHERN KOREAN / FRONT AS HE COVERS COMRADS (CENTER, UNDER / GUN) PATROLLING HILLSIDE. A FULL SOUTH / KOREAN DIVISION HAS BEEN MOVED TO THIS AREA / TO HELP HOLD THE IMPORTANT POHANG AIR STRIP / NOW OUT OF OPERATION DUE TO REDS' ADVANCE IN / THE AREA. / JS 8/16/50 610PEDT STF-MD 30 / EAST ABC LIST TMC WW LON PAR

verso (red crayon): WAR / (stamped twice in black ink): NOTICE [underlined] / This picture [illegible] of the Associated / Press and may be used only for the purposes of / reproduction when authorized by the owner. [illegible] may / [illegible] rented or loaned, or used for / [illegible] for the purposes of trade. / [illegible] must be printed under / [illegible] reproduction of this picture. / ASSOCIATED PRESS / NEWSPHOTO
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