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The Korean War

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Battalion Commander Lieutenant Colonel Cornelis Knulst escorts Ferdinand Kranenburg, the State Secretary for War, during his 2nd visit to the Dutch unit.
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Dutch war graves at the Tanggok military cemetry near Pusan.
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HNLMS Van Galen docks alongside HNLMS Evertsen in Hong Kong harbour.
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HNLMS Van Galen escorts the American aircraft carrier USS Sicily in April 1951.
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On war watch on HNLMS Evertsen.
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Prime Minister Willem Drees, accompanied by the Minister of War Hans s’Jacob, inspects the Netherlands UN detachment at the Binnenhof on 24 October 1950, 2 days before the battalion’s departure to Korea.
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A Dutch soldier stays close to a dying comrade during the fighting on Hill 975 in May 1951.
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The Netherlands United Nations Detachment was deployed to Marathon Valley in May 1951. Soldiers eat hungrily after the march on Hill 975. Note the emblem of the 2nd India Head Division on the left sleeve.
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War correspondent W.W. Dussel during a recording of a radio show from the Main Hospital in Tokyo (March 1951).
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