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JERRY HARTMAN WITH M-16, BATTLE OF THE KUMSONG SALIENT, KOREAN WAR, JULY 1953
This photo shows my brother-in-law, Jerry Hartman (on the right), during the Battle of the Kumsong Salient, the largest battle of the last two years of the Korean War, in July 1953. I took this photo a few days before the cease-fire that ended the shooting phase of the war. Jerry, a member of the 58th Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, is standing beside an M-16 (a half-track on which were mounted quadruple .50-caliber machine guns) belonging to the 3rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery AW Battalion. An unidentified member of the 3rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery AW Battalion is on the left side of the photo.
The front line was situated along the ridges at the top of the photo where the 65th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, was dug in along the ridge crests. The M-16, positioned among the 58th FAB 105 mm howitzers, was fired routinely, its bullets skimming over the 65th Infantry Regiment positions to impact on Communist Chinese Forces positions out in No-mans-land, and beyond.
JERRY HARTMAN WITH M-16, BATTLE OF THE KUMSONG SALIENT, KOREAN WAR, JULY 1953
This photo shows my brother-in-law, Jerry Hartman (on the right), during the Battle of the Kumsong Salient, the largest battle of the last two years of the Korean War, in July 1953. I took this photo a few days before the cease-fire that ended the shooting phase of the war. Jerry, a member of the 58th Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, is standing beside an M-16 (a half-track on which were mounted quadruple .50-caliber machine guns) belonging to the 3rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery AW Battalion. An unidentified member of the 3rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery AW Battalion is on the left side of the photo.
The front line was situated along the ridges at the top of the photo where the 65th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, was dug in along the ridge crests. The M-16, positioned among the 58th FAB 105 mm howitzers, was fired routinely, its bullets skimming over the 65th Infantry Regiment positions to impact on Communist Chinese Forces positions out in No-mans-land, and beyond.