LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan
-
Upload
- -
Category
Art & Photos
-
view
3.204 -
download
2
Transcript of LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan
![Page 1: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
LIFE in the Korean War: Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan
Hand Play1
![Page 2: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Marine Capt. Francis "Ike" Fenton ponders his fate and the fate of his men after being told that his company is nearly out of ammunition, Korea, 1950.
2
![Page 3: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Wounded when a mine blew up his Jeep, an ambulance driver sobs by the side of the road after learning that a friend was killed in the blast, Korea 1950. 3
![Page 4: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
American Marines race past a dead enemy soldier in Korea, September 1950.
4
![Page 5: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
"Corporal Leonard Hayworth ... shows his utter frustration as he has crawled back from his position only to learn that the ammo is gone. Coda: At the last moment, supplies arrived and the men were able to hold their position." — From David Douglas Duncan's 1951 book, This Is War!
U.S. Marine Corporal Leonard Hayworth shedding tears of frustration after finding out his unit was out of ammunition and he had lost all but two men in a firefight with North Korean forces in August 1950.
5
![Page 6: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
A wounded American Marine is carried on stretcher improvised from a machine gun, Korea 1950. 6
![Page 7: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
A column of American Marines marches down a canyon road dubbed "Nightmare Alley" during their retreat from Chosin Reservoir, Korea, 1950.
7
![Page 8: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Marines retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, Korea, 1950. 8
![Page 9: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
American Marines march down a canyon road dubbed "Nightmare Alley" during their retreat from Chosin Reservoir, Korea, 1950. 9
![Page 10: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
A weary American Marine hooded against the cold during the grim retreat from Chosin Reservoir, Korea, winter 1950.
10
![Page 11: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
A weary, exhausted Marine huddles against the bitter cold during the retreat from Chosin Reservoir, Korea, winter 1950.
11
![Page 12: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
A dazed, hooded Marine clutches a can of food during his outfit's retreat from the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War, December 1950.
12
![Page 13: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
The fight for Seoul, Korea, 1950. 13
![Page 14: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
"This," Duncan told LIFE.com of a picture made during the fight for Seoul, "is the best picture I made in Korea of civilians — a family running down stairs, a father holding a baby, tanks firing away. Those tanks are taking fire from North Koreans right down the street!" 14
![Page 15: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
An American Marine sleeps in his halted jeep while a puppy whines in his ear during the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, December 1950. 15
![Page 16: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
American Marines pass bodies of fallen comrades during the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, December 1950.
16
![Page 17: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Marines rest after making it through the canyon road known as Nightmare Alley during the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, December 1950.
17
![Page 18: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Marines file past a truck loaded with dead troops during the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, December 1950. 18
![Page 19: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
U.S. Marines resting in a foxhole while awaiting a North Korean counterattack near the Naktong River in August 1950. 19
![Page 20: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
20
![Page 21: LIFE in the Korean War Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan](https://reader035.fdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062905/554a66d3b4c90568288b465d/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
David Douglas Duncan in 1950
7/14/2013 Kaohsiung Taiwan R.O.CAll photos were taken from LIFE.TIME, Internet… THE END 21