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- AACS Alumni Association
This is the website for the Army Airways Communications System; Airways & Air Communications Service; Air
Force Communications Service; and Air Force Communications Command.
- Acheson, Dean – "Papers of Dean
Acheson 1949-1953"
An alphabetical index of Memorandums of Conversations of Dean Acheson, stored in the Truman Library. You will
find lots of Korean War-related memorandums in this listing.
- Airborne - My Dad is a Vet
See section M, "My Dad is a Vet"
- Air Force
Historical Research Agency – Korean War
Korean War chronology, Korean War campaigns, USAF K-sites in Korea, USAF organizations in Korea.
- Air Force Museum: Korean
Conflict Gallery
Provides gallery information on the 20 Korean War-era aircraft on display in the USAF Museum.
- Air University Library
Publications
A list of Air University Library publications, Korean War, 1950-53—including books, documents, and
periodicals—held in Maxwell AFB, Alabama. They include: allied participation, communist activities, general,
lessons, limited war, military aspects (aerial operations, campaigns and battles, ground operations,
intelligence, logistics, medicine, naval marine operations), psychological warfare, military-civil relations,
negotiations, nuclear issues, origins, political aspects, POWs, strategy, Truman-MacArthur controversy, and
unit of command. An excellent resource for information.
- American Merchant Marine at War
Dedicated to Mariners who died in service to their country in all wars, this site has a section about Merchant
Marine ships in the Korean War. It not only tells the story of Merchant Marine ships during this war, it also
has photographs of several merchant ships that served at that time. The site details Merchant Marine ships at
Inchon and Hungnam. All merchant and military sea transportation service (MSTS) ships in service for the
Korean War are listed by name.
- Arlington National Cemetery
Website
A great, privately-owned website on which to locate biographies of many (but not all) Korean War veterans
buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Some great pictures, too.
- Army Center for Military History –
Korean War
Check this out: Airborne Operations in Korea; Black Soldier, White Army; Combat Actions in Korea; Combat
Support in Korea; Air Interdiction during the war; Highlights of mobilization; Korean War maps; Graves
Registration; Statistical data on strength and casualties for Korean War & Vietnam; etc.
- Army Engineer Association
This is the official website of the Army Engineer Association, and includes information on joining the
Association and how to receive the Army Engineer Magazine. The site includes a facts, programs and services
section and links to regimental units. On the regimental unit links page, you will find a listing for Alumni
Unit Organizations. On that page, there is an excellent master casualty navigation page for Army Korean War
casualties. Visitors can click on bars for: Still Missing in Action (all services), Army combat divisions,
regimental combat teams, Airborne Ranger companies, artillery, chemical, engineer, ordnance, and tank
companies.
- Army Quartermaster Museum
An excellent site to obtain quarter master information, including: articles, clothing & equipment,
subsistence/food/cooks, graves registration, quartermaster units, and much, much more.
- Army Shoulder/Sleeve Insignia
A great place to find the assigned or attached units, Battalion or larger, to the U.S. Army headquarters and
to the Army Corps during the Korean War.
- Association of Ranger Infantry Companies
(Airborne) of the Korean War
Association history, RICA organization information, search for missing Rangers, contact information, and more.
- Atomic Veterans History Project
Affiliated with the National Association of Atomic Veterans, this site provides a list of atomic tests and has
the memoirs of many atomic test survivors. The site also tells about a medical database developed by NAAV with
respect to test survivors and an elevated rate of disease. Korean War-era veterans who participated in the
nuclear tests in the 1950s need to visit this website!
- Australia - Korea Veterans Association of
Australia, Inc.
2nd year of operation. View comments from local and Interstate members and International Comrades. They
intend the site can give you pleasure and be of assistance in either giving or seeking information on friends
or relatives, also relating a story of your choice to that section. They are trying to achieve
co-operation - liaison - and camaraderie.
- Australia – Korea Veterans Australia
A website created in honor of Australia’s Korean War veterans (1950-57). Here you will find the memories of
one dozen Australian Korean War veterans. Also, Korea veterans activities throughout Australia are listed,
along with government assistance information for that country’s Korean War veterans.
- Australian Album
This web site features a Korean War timeline for Australian involvement. It also has 47 great yarns; thumbnail
pictures and texts about Australian Korean War veterans; information on the Royal Australian Regiment.
Excellent graphics! Recollections and reminiscences of some of the 1600 Australian military personnel who
served in the Korean War.
- Australian War Memorial Archive – Korea
Brief history of Australian involvement in the Korean War; reading list, online exhibition, "Out in the Cold:
Australia’s Involvement in the Korean War"; guide to available sources about Australia’s involvement in the
war and its participating veterans.
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- B-29s in the
Korean War... contains the most comprehensive and accurate historical data, photographs and personal
accounts of the B-29 aircraft, flight and ground personnel who served in the Forgotten War. Included are my
personal recollections, experiences and photographs as a combat B-29 copilot in the 19BG, 28BS from August
1951 to March, 1952.
- Belgium Korean War Vets (Dove of the
Morning Calm)
Statistics, articles, and historical information about Belgium troops in the Korean War.
- Bill’s Military Page 1948-51
Photos and information about Korean War veteran Bill Strong. Basic with the 101st Airborne. Korea 1951 with
the 3rd Infantry Division, 15th RCT.
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| **Black History – See sites listed here:
- Black Combat Units in Korean War Action
Information about the 24th RCT of the 25th Infantry Division.
Authored by David K. Carlisle. This is a page of the American War Library.
- Last Black Combat Unit of the US Army
Information about the 77th Engineer Combat Company that fought alongside of the 24th Infantry Regiment. This
is also a page of the American War Library, authored by David K. Carlisle.
- When Black is
Burned
An oral history study of blacks serving in the US Army during the Korean War.
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- Bob West’s Korean War Pages
An excellent site to find Korean War photographs (over 2,000), beautiful Korean music, links, history, poems,
and more.
- Boeing B-29
Superfortress in the Korean War
The history of this plane’s involvement in the Korean War.
- British - Korea 1950-53: The Forgotten War
A website devoted to Britain's role in the Korean War. The website has a Browsealoud feature which allows
visitors with poor eyesight to "hear" the website as well as see it.
- British - Britain’s Small
Wars-Korea
Land war, war at sea, air war, Inchon, aircraft, Hill 282, Gloster Hill, The Hook, Imjin River battle, POW,
Marines in Korea, Royal Naval ships involved in Korean War, etc. An excellent website about Britain’s role in
Korea.
- British - British Korean
Veterans Association
Information about the BKVA, veterans’ stories, links, Scotland Remembers, photos, KIA information by regiment.
Four sites that have names and details about British KIA are also posted on this site.
- British - British KVA-Middlesex
Branch
Find lost comrades, reunion information, Korean War veterans’ stories, Middlesex Branch news, KIA information,
links, etc.
- British – Korea: Recollections
of the Korean War, 1950-53
Extracts from the Imperial War Museum’s "Sound Archive." The archive has been interviewing British and
Commonwealth Korean War veterans about their experiences for the past ten years.
- British – Land Forces
of Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth
Synopsis, general history, battles and battle honors, campaign medals, order of battle, uniforms, badges &
colours, biography and memorials, associations, forums, museums & historical societies, bibliography, links,
etc.
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