Battery B, 58th Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, Battle of the Kumsong Salient, Korean War, July 1953

            I took this photo of Battery B, 58th Field Artillery Battalion in action in the Battle of the Kumsong Salient, the greatest battle of the last two years of the Korean War on, or about, 20 July 1953, about one week before the cease fire ended the shooting phase of the war on July 27, 1953. My brother-in-law, Jerry Hartman (on the right), has just fired the 105 mm howitzer. At the time I took this photo Jerry's battery was participating in annihilating a large Communist Chinese Force (CCF) unit that had massed in no-man's land which was the valley just beyond the ridges at the top of the photo. The front line was along the ridges where the 65th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division, was dug in. A massive attack by about 100,000 CCF had destroyed and driven back U.N. forces several miles in but a few days time, and the 3rd Infantry Division had been moved to the battle area to block the CCF advance, which it stopped cold. 
   

Taken on: July 20, 2014

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