Skip to main content

Naval History and Heritage Command

NH 97136 Bombed North Korean Railway Bridge

Photo #: NH 97136 Bombed North Korean Railway Bridge
Download Image:
Low (PNG, 319x319px, 56KB)
Med (JPEG, 1280x1280px, 264KB)
High (TIFF, 8948x5806px, 50MB)
Title: Bombed North Korean Railway Bridge
Description: Task Force 77 Pilots Score Again On another raid Skyraiders and Corsairs knocked out two more of the original steel spans with 2000 and 1000 pound bombs leaving the vital supply link a mass of ruin. Replacement of these two spans with wooden construction will leave more than half of the structure vulnerable to napalm attack by the task force flyers. The halting of traffic over spans such as this along vital supply routes gives UN troops fighting in Korea a decided advantage over their enemy. Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 10 August 1951. Note craters near the bridge, wooden cribbing used to repair the spans at the left, and bridge members blown to the river bed below. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the All Hands collection at the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 97136
Related Content
Topic
Document Type
  • Photograph
Wars & Conflicts
Navy Communities
File Formats
  • Image (gif, jpg, tiff)
Location of Archival Materials
Author Name
Place of Event
Recipient Name