tamrock
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On my last visit to my moms, who is now 89. She asked that I pack home all the family photos and take them with me to Colorado. There are 6 large boxes of photo albums and hundreds very old pictures of my ancestors. The pictures I'm posting are ones I found that my dad took when he was in Korea. In the first picture my dad is in the front row to the left and he's also in the 3rd picture as he could be a clown at times and he's sitting on a Yak I think it is. That smile on my dads face sitting on that beast is one I came to recognized that he was in a fun mood and it was seen on him from time to time till the day he past. Other times he was a real bear and I knew that face very well. The clue to when these were taken is in the 2nd picture with a soldier standing next to a sign dated June 1951. My question is, what kind of jeep is that in the 4th picture. I find nothing like it used by the US in the early 50's? and in the last picture what kind of tank is that with no markings? My dad never spoke of his time in Korea to me. When I was young you had to jump back very quickly if you woke him up as he would fly out of bed. I also was woken up many times myself by the loud nightmares he would have when I was very young, I'd go upstairs to see if all was well and he and my mom would be sitting on edge of the bed and my dad was dripping in sweat not saying anything. My mom would just say everthing was okay and I can go back to bed now. Those nights were very scary ones to me. They did over time stop coming to him. My dad served with the US Army 7th Calvary in the occupation of Japan and was later called to serve in Korea.