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8240th Army Unit, Special Forces

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Ben Malcom's photos show life and assignments during the Korean War with the 8240th in Korea.

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Corsair #3 crashes on Paengnyong-Do. (Malcom told to destroy it.)
LT Malcom uses demolitions to destroy that plane.
Special Forces leaders in North Korea. CPT Don Seibert, LT Jim Mapp, and LT Ben Malcom.
Paratroopers dropping into North Korea.
Paengyong-Do island in 2006- still und).er South Korean control (125 miles NW).
Our guerillas destroyed a train in North Korea.
One of LT Malcom's boats on the coast of North Korea.
Old rice grist mill on Paengyong-Do.
Old Baldy Mountain on the front lines in 1952 (see soldiers in fox holes)
North Korean evacuation in Nov. 1950 (Near the Yalu River)
Navy PPY-5 Amphibian plane shot up by MIG-15. Tail gunner KIA.
MIG-15 lands at Kimpo in 1953; only one that deserted North Korea.
LT Robert McBride (USMA-50) with some of our boats.
A British fighter plane crashed and Ben Malcom is removing the radios.
LT Ben Malcom with 2 captured 76mm anti-tank guns.
LT Ben Malcom used demolition to destroy the Corsair airplane.
LT Ben Malcom in a AF (air rescue) helicopter.
LT Ben Malcom & Mr. Pak Choi (D-4) in North Korea.
Leopard Base HQ on Paengyong-Do. (With AF helicopter on the pad.)
Hans Tofte (CIA Director) on left and Dutch Kramer on right.
GEN MacArthur departs Japan after being relieved by President Truman (1951).
Corsairs on a Navy carrier in the Yellow Sea.
Corsair lands at high tide on Paengyong-Do and the pilot drowns.
C-47 shot up over North Korea & crashed on Chodo Island in North Korea. 8 KIA.
A Corsair shot up over North Korea lands back on the carrier on fire.
A CIA B-26 aircraft (black) used to drop paratroopers.