Picture Submission Criteria!

    All picture submissions must be PROGRESSIVE JPG or GIF (JPG preferred), size; no larger than 640 x 480 and of good quality. Descriptions must accompany all pictures.  Please name your pictures with your initials followed by numbers, starting with #1. An example; if your name is Joe Brown, start with JB1.JPG, JB2.JPG and so on.  Check to see what initial series is already online.  As of now, JM, BC, GS, KM, LM, PY and TR are taken. E-mail me if there is a conflict.  Pick out 10 of your pictures that you would like to submit, and only those 10.  If you submit more than 10 pictures, none of them will be used.  Send a PLAIN TEXT file giving a brief description of each picture.  If I have to renumber them or do major editing on the descriptions, they will all be rejected.  Make it easy for me guys, you do some of the work too!

Notice: Server space is at a premium, please e-mail me BEFORE you send me any more pictures for the web site.
                                                              Thank You!  John...

1963, 22-year old Sgt. Henry Buyny, "C" Troop
1st Recon. Squad. 9th Cav. - 1st Cav.

The pictures on this page have been submitted by site visitors.

Proper credit will be given when it is known.  The pictures in the first series were taken and submitted by George Shriver, the second series taken of and or by and submitted by Tom Reynolds.
The third series was submitted by Robert Jones.
The last series on this page by Len Malone.

Check the next page "Even More" for submissions by;
Ken Marcheschi
Co. B, 2/23 Inf. (Camp Wilbur) Korea
June 1965 to July 1966
And Pete Yancick
HQ Troop 9th Cav. 1st Rcn. Sqd. 1958 -1959

George M. Shriver, 1944 - 2004

George (on the left).
1963/64

The "Thinker"
 2002/03

Eternal thanks  go out to George for his submissions and more
importantly, his friendship.
George served with "B" Troop, 1st  Reconnaissance Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division; 1963 & 1964 in & on "The Zone".

George Left Us On 21 July, 2004!

On the left George and LTC MacDonald (2003) stand before George's print, "Ten Days And A Wakeup".

Meeting on the MDL (Military Demarcation Line (Middle of the DMZ)).  Date not given.  I see one G.I. and 3 NKPA soldiers.  There must be others out of the cameras view!

George on his M-114A1 during an Alert in Feb. '65.

Let's see if we can get this %^#(@! gun to shoot!?  Same Alert!

Spec. Price & PFC. Skizenski string new barbed wire on the M.D.L, Summer of '65.

Entrance to "B" Troop

This picture is a major historical place that few remembered even then, and probably no one remembers now.  If you will look at the picture closely, you will see a "blue" post sticking up out of the tall grass.  There are actually two blue post, but one has fallen over into the steam.  This place is, and rightly should be, Holy Ground, it is known by those who were there at the time as "Blue Gate".  After the truce signing, the allies and the communist forces conducted ceremonial prisoner exchanges at the "Bridge of No Return" at JSA (Panmunjom) but the actual repatriation of the thousands of prisoners and known remains from both sides took place some five miles West of there at a little known railroad bridge over an even less known creek.  I have forgotten exactly how it got the name "Blue Gate", too many years have past.  Few people even back in 1964 had laid eyes upon this place after the ten or eleven years that had past since it was such a busy place.  The road that had lead up to it had long ago been lost to the emerging foliage by 1964.  No longer do honor guards or other details come to this place to keep it in good shape.  If you will look closely, you will see that it is twenty feet or so on the North side of the MDL.

The next two pictures are of the "Mayor's House", so named by American GIs long before I arrived in the DMZ.  The building is the most prominent ruins in what was, at one time, a very prosperous village of significant size before the war.  The village was a rail head on the once popular last leg of the famed "Orient Express".  In it's heyday, in was the first or last stop (depending on the direction of travel) before arrived  in, or leaving Seoul.  The picture of the shot-up locomotive (see below) is about one hundred yards behind the Mayor's House when viewing from this angle, which is looking Northeast.  Two hundred yards to the North-Northeast lays "Blue Gate" and the MDL. Because of it's geographical location, it remained in the center of fighting through out the entire war.  The area was completely inaccessible to the surviving residents and land owners after the war.  The building is was in remarkably good shape at the time of this picture which was in 1964... ten year after war's end (cease filre).  Upon close inspection you could see that it has been raked with light and heavy arms fire many times.  There was evidence of cannon fire and other heavy ordnance as well.  Even by today's standards, the building was of excellent architect and artistic design, indicating that a considerable sum of money was spent in it's construction.  It is highly possible that the building did not belong to an individual at all, but was a public building.  Perhaps City Hall or the Public library.  One of the thousands of unanswered question that I left behind those many years ago.

Inside view of "The mayor's house".

This picture is called "Six Man MDL Patrol", taken in later spring of 1964.  Note the MDL marker in far background, approximately sign number #22, of the more than one thousand that marked the MDL from coast to coast across the Korean peninsula.  Don't you just love the white "t" shirts and white "MP" arm bands!?  White sure does make a nice target! -jm-

An "old blown to hell" locomotive - in the DMZ (minefield) .
I saw this one myself during orientation in 1959. -jm-

The tender (coal car) for the locomotive, obviously "shot to hell also".

"Ambush Bridge", not far from the train.  Anyone know where the name "Ambush Bridge" came from?

This and the next picture show "Guard Posts", what we used to call "Observation Posts".  Most of ours (1959) were no more than sand bag bunkers (below grade), with only a small slit for observation/returning fire.

Any of you old "B" Troopers know who these 2 are??  This and the prior picture were taken in early Summer of 1964.

This next group of pictures comes from Tom Reynolds, another "B" Troop alumnus! 
Tom was with "B" Troop in 1964 - 1965.
Tom, Thank You for the pictures.

"B" Troop, 9th Cav. 1st Cav. Motor Pool?

Tom on/going on Guard Duty

Tom by an M-113 P.C.

Tom on an M-88

"B" Troop on an alert during the Vietnam Tonkin Gulf incident.

South Gate in and out of the DMZ, "B" Troop sector.

The "old blown to hell" locomotive - in the DMZ (minefield) . Most common view..

Wood cutters, they removed a tree blocking the view from one of our OP's, pissed off the NKPA!

"Funny Money"  MPC = Military Payment Certificate.  No "Green Backs" allowed!

Looking from on top of an M-48 toward 'B' Troops Mess Hall & camp area.

Thanks to Robert M. Jones for his submissions.  Robert served in 1^st  BN 8^th Cav. at Camp Young, North of Libby Bridge as BN Property Book Officer, 1964 - 1965.

This next series of pictures was submitted by
Len Malone.
Len served on the DMZ with "B" Troop, 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 2nd Infantry Division, 1968 - 1969.

2nd Infantry Division Shoulder Patch.

Some of 3rd Platoon (Names not given).

Heading South from the DMZ.

"B" Troop Motor Pool.

Third Platoon Leader Lt. Fredrickson (on the Left) and 2 un-named Sergeants.

Freedom Bridge (Looking North).

Len cleaning his weapon at "Mesquito Alley".

Part of the Quick Reaction Force getting "primed" on Colt 45!

Len after eating M-48 Tank dust for 40 miles!

First unit North of Freedom Bridge

Len on rear gun, unnamed KATUSA (middle) and Sgt. Ralston(?) on the Right.

Freedom Bridge (Heading South).

7th Cavalry insignia (patch).

Len (driving) and Roland Desrochers (From Flint. Michigan).

A unnamed O.P. Inside the DMZ.

Rice paddies on the approach to Freedom Bridge.

A pontoon Bridge, used by tanks and other heavies (crossing point unnamed).

3 stinkies! Len on the left, Mike Vallentine (middle) and Desrochers on the right - 3 weeks, no bath and sleep deprived!

Len taking a break on the DMZ.

Jerome Regallis (Akron Ohio) during a sweep inside the DMZ.

Coming back from old ammo disposal (live fire) on North side of Freedom Bridge.

"B" Troop during a sweep inside the DMZ, taken at an angle as no cameras were allowed, but he did it anyway.

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