Air drops resupply embattled marines
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Air drops resupply embattled marines

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Photograph

Air drops resupply embattled marines

November 30,1950
Gelatin silver print
Image: 24 x 19.4 cm (9 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Paper: 25.2 x 20.5 cm (9 15/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0018.1027
Inscriptions recto (in image): +40314 A.C. [surrounded by white rectangle]

verso (printed): *40[illeg.] A.C. - AIR DROPS RESUPPLY EMBATTLED MARINES. / Ammunition and supplies for the / embattled First Marine Division in the Chosen / Reservoir Area in North Korea blossom from a / C-119 Flying Boxcar of the Far East Air Forces/ Combat Cargo Command. Almost 110 tons of supplies / vital to ground troops facing the communist drive / were dropped by combat cargo planes yesterday, / most of them to the Marines and Seventh Division / in the Chosen Reservoir Area. This is the only / photograph the U.S. Air Force photographer was / able to make before 23-degree-below-zero weather / froze the shutter on his camera. / Photo taken November 30, 1950. / RERELEASED WASHINGTON, D.C.DECEMBER 6, 1950. / PLEASE CREDIT: "OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PHOTO"
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