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NH 97099 U.N. Command Advance Camp, Munsan-Ni, Korea

Photo #: NH 97099 U.N. Command Advance Camp, Munsan-Ni, Korea
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Title: U.N. Command Advance Camp, Munsan-Ni, Korea
Description: Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, USN, Senior UNC Delegate, (left) with Rear Admiral R.E. Libby, USN, UNC Delegate, (center) examine a Chinest typewriter at the UNC Advance Camp as Lieutenant Horace G. Underwood, USN, Korean interpreter at the military armistice conferences, (right) explains the operation of the machine. The typewriter was brought to the Camp for use in connection with the military armistice conferences. The machine is capable of printing approximately 4,700 different Chinese characters. The operater, Kim Kong Chun, DAC, uses the 'hunt and peck' system required on this 'miniature printing press'. Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 10 March 1952, as part of a series marking the eighth month anniversary of the beginning of the Korean Armistice Conferences. Note VAdm. Joy's flashlight, RAdm. Libby's U.S. Marine Corps cap, and bare lightbulb supported by wires stapled to a board. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the All Hands collection at the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 97099
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