The Forgotten War in Color

American reporter John Rich's collection of color photographs, which he snapped with his new Nikon and Kodachrome film in between filing stories, during his time in Korea throughout the "Forgotten" conflict might "constitute perhaps the most extensive collection of color photographs of the Korean War." Most professional photographers then favored "black-and-white for its greater technical flexibility, not to mention marketability--the major periodicals had yet to publish in color."

Rich, who covered the Korean War in its entirety, remembers two colors the most: the Windex blue of the ocean and sky, and the brown of sandbags, dusty roads and fields of ginseng. In his photographs, though, red seems the most vivid.

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LIST OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH DEFECTORS WHO DECLINED REPATRIATION AFTER KOREAN WAR

Wikipedia has an interesting list and recap of the 22 US and British soldiers who voluntarily refused repatriation, that is return to their homeland, after the end of the Korean War much to the shock of their government.  Most moved to China. One American soldier, Cpl. Clarence Adams stated the racism and discrimination he endured from his fellow white POWs and back home as a reason for his decision to not return to the US.  During the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution, Adams returned to the US where he was charged and acquitted of treason.

"There was racism in the prison camps just as there had been in the Army. There were those whites who openly called us niggers and told us what they would do to us when they got us back in the States. I knew nothing about communism or any other 'ism,' but during many of my sleepless nights, I questioned why America was in Korea and what I was doing there. The more I thought about my life, the more I felt I had been used, cheated and betrayed."

His autobiography was posthumously published last year after his death in 1999.  His family currently owns eight Chinese restaurants in Memphis.

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