On this day: Seoul in Ruins

WAR & CONFLICT BOOK
ERA:  KOREAN WAR/DEATH & DESTRUCTION

This photograph, dated the 1st of November, 1950, is from the US Army archives and shows an elderly woman searching through the rubble of Seoul over four months into the Korean War.

It would be more than three years between the beginning of the war and the 1953 armistice. However, Korea remains divided.

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