Latest content added for The Gateway to Oklahoma History Location: South Korea - Seoul Special City - Seoul

[Photograph 2012.201.B1306.0684]

2015-06-22T11:58:57-05:00

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of her "Sons", South Korean army Lt. Col. Oh Ji-soo, embraces Mrs. Grover Thomas, 67-year-old Lawton woman, on her arrival in Seoul as a guest of the many South Korean soldiers she befriended while they were at Fort Sill."

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2015-06-22T11:58:57-05:00

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gen. John Vessey"

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2015-06-22T11:58:57-05:00

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lt. Col. Donald El Thomson, right, a former professor of military science at Panhandle A&M College, Goodwell, whose family lives in Guymon, gave the order and then scuffled with the two Communist guards to allow the defecting North Korean time to get into an escape car."

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2015-06-22T11:58:57-05:00

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Present for sooner goes to Mrs. Grover Thomas of Lawton, Oklahoma, who received a music box at a dinner at the official residence of General Park Chung-Hee, right, chairman, ruling supreme council, in Seoul, Korea."

[Photograph 2012.201.B1219.0237]

2015-06-08T20:44:45-05:00

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "After landing at Kimpo Airport near Seoul, Korea, Maj. Gen. James C. Styron, second from left, commanding general of the 45th, is briefed on the situation by Brig. Gen. Robert L. Dulaney, asst. division commander, as Maj. Fred Snyder, right, of Edmond, division operations officer, looks on. The 45th is the first National Guard division to enter the combat zone since VJ Day."

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2015-06-08T20:44:45-05:00

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Maj. Gen. James C. Styron, 45th "Thunderbird" Division commander, gets a laugh from the first group of Thunderbirds to "phase-out" for the trip back to Oklahoma as he bids them a grateful farewell. He called the 45th "the finest division ever sent to the Eighth Army."

[Photograph 2012.201.B1068.0274]

2015-06-02T07:10:39-05:00

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "AIR SECRETARY DONALD QUARLES RIGHT IS QREETED BY PRESIDENT SYNGMAN AT THE KYONG MU DAI, RHEE'S OFFICIAL MANSION."

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2014-09-23T12:01:06-05:00

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "U.S. Vice President H. Humphrey talks with Chung Il-Kwon, premier of South Korea, at his officail residence tonight in Seoul."

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2013-10-11T20:30:49-05:00

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cpl. George Choolakian, New York born U.S. Marine, sought by Moscow as part of an exchange for two American prisoners held in Russia, said Wednesday "I just wouldn't go." The 19 year old marine said in an interview by telephone from his marine air base that he "would definitely say NO" to the swap proposed by Moscow in a note to Washington December 31."