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| I climbed a little higher, but by the time I got there a lot of the smoke had blown away. The hill in the foreground is our MLR. Note the tanks dug in at the top of the hill. They did not have enough gas to get back down and were just used as artillery. <more> |
Looking toward the rear (South) from the MLR down Happy Valley. You can see the supply road junction Popeye at the left side of the photo. That was an aiming point for both Chinese and Americans. You did not want to hang around there either day or night. |
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| Looking out across the Ch'orwon valley toward Chinese occupied Jackson Heights with Iron Horse the low hill behind it. Every night both the U.S. and the Chinese would run patrols out in the valley rice paddies sometimes resulting in brief but ugly firefights. | Another air strike viewed from the MLR. Note the trenches and bunker built as part of the MLR's fortification. One of the people I shared a tent with when I arrived at the 3rd division's reserve position was a platoon leader and lived in that bunker. | |
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| And yet another air strike. The air strike is out of focus (remember manually focused cameras?) while the foreground dirt in focus. This photo was shot peering over the edge of an MLR trench. Sometimes you'd hear sniper rounds pocking into the dirt around you. | I refocused the camera and shot again. I got a better picture this time with the bomb blast in focus and the trench edge next to the bunker out of focus. | |
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