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Korean War

	Date: July 18, 1950 Title: Men of the 24th Infantry Regiment move up to the firing line in Korea. Source: National Archives and Records Administration
Date: ca. 1930-1975 Title: Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas--Elizabeth L. Gardner of Rockford, Illinois, WASP (Women's Airforce Service Pilot) pilot, takes a look around before sending her plane streaking down the runway at the air base. Source: National Archives and Records Administration
	Date: October 1951 Title: 1st Lt. Walter H. Burke, Stockton, California, recently became in good standing of the "Century Flight Club" of the U.S. Air force's 18th Fighter Bomber Wing. He poses with the lucky white horseshoe, official emblem of the club, at the completion of his 100th F-51 "Mustang" combat mission over Communist targets in North Korea. Source: National Archives and Records Administration
Date: December 1950 Title: WAITING, WAITING. These frostbite casualties of the embattled First Marine Division and Seventh Infantry Division who linked up in the Chosin Reservoir area in a desperate attempt to break out of Communist encirclement wait with set expressions on their faces for pickup by planes of the U.S. Air Force Far East Combat Cargo Command. Source: National Archives and Records Administration
	Date: July 1951 Title: Capt. Eugene C. Cheatham of Monclair, N.J., serving with the Fifth Air Force's 67th Tactical Reconnaisance Wing at an advanced Korean airbase, is shown studying aerial photographs taken by photo-reconn aircraft of the 67th Wing. Source: National Archives and Records Administration
Date: March 1952 Title: OVER ENEMY TERRITORY IN KOREA -- One of the nine missions assigned to the 315th Air Division (Combat Cargo) is the dropping of paratroopers in airborne assaults. Source: National Archives and Records Administration
	Date: December 1950 Title: BITTER COLD, BITTER FIGHT Source: National Archives and Records Administration