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From the Archives

The bullet-riddled truck in which four United Nations Command soldiers — two Americans and two South Koreans — were killed in an ambush at the Korean DMZ in April, 1968.

DMZ ambush survivors seen lucky to be alive

Observers at the scene of Sunday night's bold ambush by Communist North Koreans who machine-gunned and killed four United Nations Command soldiers reached one conclusion: "I don't see how anybody survived this."

A Korean woman pulls weeds among the gravesites.

1955: Korea revisited

Precisely at 8 a.m. every day a tall, lanky U.S. Army sergeant gives the word and 21 flags of the U.N. countries that fought in Korea are raised over the more than 2,000 dead who still rest in the only U.N. cemetery in the world.

Two unidentified soldiers check for communist movements across the DMZ in North Korea at Outpost Maizie.

1959: Close Look at the Reds

Want to see a real live communist?
The men of Outpost Maizie, on the Demilitarized Zone in Korea, see them all the time. What’s more, they get to show off “their” commies to visitors — such as General L. L. Lemnitzer, Red Skelton, Red Barber, Bob Hope, John Ford, to name a few.

ROK troops cross a river during Operation Killing Zone.

50,000 ROK Troops deployed in combat test

Operation Killing Zone, largest military field exercise since the founding of the First Republic of Korea Army, recently deployed 50,000 troops in a maneuver conducted under simulated atomic conditions.

A platoon leader with the 1st Republic of Korea Division looks through a set of binoculars toward North Korea from his position in the Demilitarized Zone.

A DMZ Wish — Rain, rain stay away

With the 1ST ROK DIV., Korea — Farmers in the Republic of Korea may pray for rain, but ROK soldiers manning the Demilitarized Zone here dread the annual summer deluge as a season of mud.

Torrejon Air Base, Spain, May, 1964: Actress Ann-Margret, visiting Torrejon Air Base during a break in the filming of "The Pleasure Seekers," doesn't seem to be convinced that putting on a flight helmet is a good idea.

Ann-Margret digs the military

FOUR YEARS AGO, a swinging coed from Northwestern University headed for Europe with a USO tour that supercharged audiences from Germany to Iceland.

Joe DiMaggio, second from left, gives batting tips to (left to right) Marcelino Agcaoili, Isao Itoh and Shozo Shigematsu of the Taiyo Whales. At right is Oakland A's pitching coach Bill Posedel.

DiMaggio likes A's chances — Taiyo's, too

The Athletics’ first year in their new Oakland home left Joe DiMaggio, their vice president in charge of class, enthusiastic over the club’s chances for a pennant.