SC 334590 KMAG-49-089 - 5 August 1949

"Ongjin, Korea - KOREAN CONFLICT: Intently studying an operations map in the 18th Regiment Command Post are members of the 18th Regiment, Korean Army, and the U.S. Military Advisory Group to the Republic of Korea, as they explain the immediate situation to Capt. E. L. Yates, who just arrived by air from Seoul, for a brief visit. Left to right: An unidentified Korea, Col. Choi Suk, Commanding Officer, 18th Regiment; Interpreters, S-2 and S-3, 18th Regiment; Capt. E. L. Yates, Cleveland, Ohio; and Capt. O. E. Payne, McMinnville, Tenn., Advisor to the 18th Regiment." NARA / Courtesy of the National Institute of Korea History. * Uploader's Note: the ROK 18th Regiment was initially a independent troop directly assigned to ROKA HQ, then was attached to the Capital Defense Command on October 1949. Note skull badge on Col. Choi's collar, which have been a symbol of the Regiment since.

Date

1949

Photographer / author

Faces of ROK: Korean War Photographs

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

1,372 × 1,107 pixels

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