Park Slain 1979
This nameplate was used in 1979
Word Said it all "God Bless America" 1973
This nameplate was used in 1973

Koreas

Julie MacKnyght looks at framed photos of an exhibition, surrounded by a professor and uniformed service members.

Retired Army officer honors her great-grandfather, UN troops at key Korean battlefield

Julie MacKnyght, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, toured Chipyong-ni, where U.S. and French troops under the United Nations Command held off waves of Chinese attacks in 1951.

Sgt. Robert E. Owens Jr., with the U.N. Command, Military Armistice Commission at Camp Bonifas, arm-wrestles a South Korean high school student Wednesday in Seoul during the USO Good Neighbor Program.

USO program aims to forge bonds between troops, S. Korean youths

Sgt. Robert Owens II came down from Camp Bonifas on the Demilitarized Zone on Wednesday to meet South Korean high-school students visiting the U.S. military.

Marvin Sanders, center, walks a group of new brides through the cooking portion of the USO's Cross-Cultural School at Camp Kim, South Korea.

USO helps Korean spouses prepare for life in the U.S.

Marvin Sanders, center, walks a group of new brides through the cooking portion of the USO's Cross-Cultural School at Camp Kim, South Korea.

Men compete in a tug of war contest

Tug of war competition at Camp Page, 1959

Tug of war contest between the 226th Signal Company and the 1st Missile Battalion was won by the Missilemen. Hq. and Hq. Company was second and 19th Infantry third.

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.