MAJ Tom Dye, Commanding Officer Leopard Base
Major Tom Dye, 1LT Arnold Keller and LT Marken, Leopard Base Paengnyong-do 1952. Courtesy of Les Hughes
Major Tom Dye & CPT Donald Seibert in front of Leopard Base CP Paengnyong-do 1952. Courtesy of CPT Donald Seibert collection, USAHEC.
Leopard Base guerrilla advisors - CPT Don Seibert, 1LT Jim Mapp and 1LT Ben Malcom.
Parachute training jump made on Paengnyong-do (Task Force Leopard), August 1952. This picture was taken by Colonel Ben Malcom who told me that when a C-47 would bring supplies to the island they would arrange to put 6 to 8 paratroopers on the plane as they took off & jump back on Paengnyong-do.
CPT Donald Seibert Leopard Base S-3 Officer. Notice his desk nameplate with CIB, Senior Parachutist Badge and UNPIK Airborne Infantry Badge. Courtesy of CPT Donald Seibert collection, USAHEC.
Closeup of CPT Donald Seibert's desk nameplate with CIB, Senior Parachutist Badge and UNPIK Airborne Infantry Badge. Courtesy of CPT Donald Seibert collection, USAHEC.
CPT Seibert and Leaders of West Coast Guerrilla Forces Leopard Base 7 February 1953. From left to right - Wild, Dye, Seibert, Betelli and Watson.
From left to right, unknown, LT Malcom and Pak Choll. LT Malcom worked closely with Pak who was the leader of Donkey 4 which comprised about six hundred guerrillas and operated from the Yalu River to the Ongjin Peninsula. Courtesy of COL Ben Malcom
Christmas Greetings from the Chinese People's Volunteers 1951. This Chinese PVA Christmas card/leaflet was brought back by UNPIK veteran Ben Malcom.
1LT Robert McBride Leopard Base - Awarded the SSM & BSM The Silver Star was awarded for gallantry in action, displayed when McBride led his men in a surprise assault against the Communists and captured 82 of them. While withdrawing, he stemmed an enemy assault and saved one of his men who could not swim to the rescue boats. The Bronze Star Medal was presented when he and his men went through a hail of enemy fire to capture a strategically valuable island off the mainland of Korea.
Insignia group attributed to 1LT Robert McBride who was assigned to Leopard Base. McBride was USMA Class of 1950 and would receive the Silver Star and Bronze Star medals during his tour with UNPIK.
Original FEC Intelligence School Certificate awarded to 2nd LT Warren Hale assigned to Leopard Base Paengnyong-do. A theater level intelligence school was established in 1951 to provide training in general intelligence subjects, interrogation, aerial photograph interpretation, order of battle and languages peculiar to the theater. With the shortage of trained personnel in covert and clandestine activities, an advanced course started to train specialists for to FEC/LD-K on 21 July 1952.
United Nations Partisan Forces Korea shoulder sleeve insignia attributed to 2nd LT Warren Hale who was assigned to Leopard Base located on Paengnyong-do.
Original cover to a $5.00 beer chit book attributed to MSG Harold Retzlaff who was assigned to the 1st PIR (formally LEOPARD South) located on the island of Paengnyong-do.
ROK Army 1st Lieutenant Cho Byung Chan, Leopard Base's interpreter and the heart of its intelligence operations. This photo was taken on Paengnyong- do in 1952 by 1st LT Ben Malcom
A pile of legitimate North Korean (NK) money that Leopard Base guerrillas brought out of North Korea. Per Ben Malcom: Leopard guerrillas robbed the NK banks & pay officers & we sent the money to the 8240th in Seoul. The 8240th then sent some of that money back into NK with Guerrilla Paratroopers to give to their family's & friends still living in NK. The money would then be spent at the NK markets & flow back to the banks & the guerrillas would rob the banks again.
In 1952 LTC Vanderpool counterfeited North Korean money to be distribute through agents all over North Korea. The top 100 Won note is real ( 775519 ). The bottom 2 are counterfeit ( 719642 & 719643 ) Courtesy of COL Ben Malcom
Counterfeit North Korean Currency brought back by SFC Frank Forbes.
Weapons training, 1st Partisan Infantry Regiment. Courtesy of LTC Glenn Muggelberg collection, USAHEC.
Rifle marksmanship training, 1st Partisan Infantry Regiment. Courtesy of LTC Glenn Muggelberg collection, USAHEC.
Original certificate awarded to LTC Enrique Petrovich, Commander of the 6th PIR. Roughly translated: This is a certificate awarded by the Government of South Korea to LTC Enrique Petrovich, Commanding Officer of 6th Parachute Infantry Regiment, ASN 0373942, 8240th AU, for service in training Partisan Airborne Infantry from Jan 3rd, 4286 (Korean Calander) to 4287. By direction of the president and signed by the Secretary of Defense Son, Wan Il, and his first director, Colonel Ko, Jae phil.
CPT George Lamm farewell commemoration 3 November 1953. CPT Lamm served with the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment. Courtesy of Les Hughes
A color photograph of Cho-do which was the original home of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment.
The 6th PIR would leave its original base on Cho-Do and move to Yongyu-Do. The reason for this move was to get the partisans out of the reach of the ROK Army which wanted to draft them into the Army.
1st LT Merril Newman, unknown 8240 US advisors and Kuwol (Kuwolsan) partisans from the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment, Cho-Do
1st LT Merril Newman, unknown 8240 US advisors and Kuwol (Kuwolsan) partisans from the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment, Cho-Do
Kuwol (Kuwolsan) Partisans of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment, Cho-do. Notice the skull and crossbones flag.
Kuwol (Kuwolsan) Partisans of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment. Notice the string pattern applied to the back of their fatigue shirts to hold camouflage. Cho-do.
Kuwol (Kuwolsan) Partisans of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment conducting weapons training, Cho-do.
Kuwol (Kuwolsan) Partisans of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment conducting weapons training, Cho-do.
Kuwol (Kuwolsan) Partisans of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment conducting parachute landing fall training, Cho-do.
Kuwol (Kuwolsan) Partisans of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment, holding services for there dead, Cho-do.
Kuwol (Kuwolsan) Partisans of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment, Cho-do.
Kuwol (Kuwolsan) Partisans of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment, Cho-do.
MSG Robert Dewey outside of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment Aid Station. This photo was taken on Yongyu-Do after the evacuation of Cho-Do 1953. Bob Dewey was a very interesting character. He later served in 1st SFG (A) and was also part of a FEST in Vietnam studying Malaria and other tropical illnesses.
MSG Robert Dewey a Combat Medic assigned to the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment, taken in Seoul 1953. Notice the UNPFK patch on his shoulder.
Company area Yongyu-do 1954.
Original aerial photograph of Yongyu-Do, home of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment.
Original hand drawn wartime map of Yongyu-do attributed to MSG Charles Lamb. Yongyu-do was the home of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment.
Original wartime map of Yongyu-do attributed to MSG Charles Lamb. Yongyu-do was the home of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment.
Original wartime map of Yongyu-do attributed to MSG Charles Lamb. Yongyu-do was the home of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment.
Great original photo of a training jump onto the rice paddy DZ of Yongyu-Do, home of the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment.
Nice color photo of the flagpole outside of the 6th PIR Headquarters, Yongyu-Do. Courtesy of UNPIK veteran Frank Waitzmann
1st LT Howard E. Miller and partisans aboard YAK 140, Yellow Sea October 1954.
CPT Howard E. Miller and partisans aboard a LCM getting ready to leave Yongyu-do for a training jump October 1954.
1st LT Howard E. Miller and ROK Officer, circa 1954. The armband on the ROK Officer says "Officer of the day".
Lt David W Loeffler, unknown Korean Officer and CPT Howard E. Miller.
Flagpole located in front of the 6th PIR Headquarters building, Yongyu-Do.
6th Partisan Infantry Regiment partisans.
Color photo of CPL Frank Waitzmann on Yongyu-Do. CPL Waitzmann served as a communications specialist with the 8240th AU.
Large wooden sign depicting a non swallow tail UNPIK shoulder sleeve insignia which is adorning the wall of the enlisted mans barracks on Yongyu-do. This photo was sent to me by UNPIK veteran Frank Waitzmann who was a communications specialist with the 8240th AU.
Rocker Hall - NCO Quonset hut, Yongyu-Do.
A close up picture of the Rocker Hall sign - NCO Quonset hut, Yongyu-Do.
UNPIK Boat House, which at the time consisted of 1 Harbor Patrol Boat and 3 LCM's Yongyu-Do.
James was a 2nd Lt assigned to the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment in September 1953, located on Yongyu-Do until the unit was deactivated. He was transferred to the Airborne school for a couple of months until it too was deactivated. James retired from the Army as a O-5 in 1969.
A group of partisans from the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment, Yongyu-Do.
CPL Ray Easter bailing water out of an LCM which almost sank. Ray worked frantically to bail water which entered from a frozen filter valve. His crewman had emptied ice out of the filter and reinstalled it without the filter seated, resulting in the valve freezing. Yongyu-do 1954 Photo courtesy of CPL Ray Easter
8240th Christmas menu courtesy of Ray Easter, 1954 Yongyu-do. This would be the last Christmas dinner for the unit.
Christmas Yongyu-do 1954. Notice the large wooden sign on the mess hall wall depicting a non swallow tail UNPIK shoulder sleeve insignia. Photo courtesy of CPL Ray Easter.
This photo is of PFC Easter's Korean pilot of the LCM. Unfortunately Ray could not remember the Korean's name.
Ray Easter (left) and Joseph Carmada Yongyu-Do 1954
Sergeant Rowekamp, Sergeant Hong and Korean CPL's of the Guard. Yongyu-do
Partisans of the 6th PIR, Yongyu-Do, 1953.
Partisans of the 6th PIR, Yongyu-Do, 1953.
Partisans of the 6th PIR, Yongyu-Do, 1953.
A group of partisans from the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment, Yongyu-Do.
A group of partisans from the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment, Yongyu-Do.
UNPIK US advisors and a group of partisans from the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment, Yongyu-Do.
Many times the LCM's could not approach landing because of low tide and had to anchor out in the ocean, requiring the use of small inflatable boats to get the men onto the island.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Korean People's Army and Chinese People's Volunteers 1952-1953. This Chinese PVA Christmas card/leaflet was brought back by MSG Charlie Lamb.
6th Partisan Infantry Regiment SOP dated 26 January 1954. This document was brought back by MSG Lamb.
6th Partisan Infantry Regiment SOP dated 26 January 1954. This document was brought back by MSG Lamb.
6th Partisan Infantry Regiment SOP dated 26 January 1954. This document was brought back by MSG Lamb.
Training Schedule for the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment Heavy Weapons Company, Light Machine Gun Platoon for the week of 1-6 February 1954. This document was brought back by MSG Lamb.
Training Schedule for the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment Heavy Weapons Company, 81mm Mortar Platoon. This document was brought back by MSG Lamb.
Training Schedule for the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment Heavy Weapons Company, 75mm Recoilless Rifle Platoon for the week of 1-6 February 1954. This document was brought back by MSG Lamb.
6th PIR Training Memorandum dated 26 January 1954. This document was brought back by MSG Lamb.
6th PIR Training Memorandum dated 26 January 1954. This document was brought back by MSG Lamb.
Headquarters, 6th PIR Training schedule for Rifle Platoons for the week of 1-6 February 1954. This document was brought back by MSG Lamb.
Headquarters, 6th PIR Training schedule for Rifle Platoons Weapons Company for the week of 1-6 February 1954. This document was brought back by MSG Lamb.
The original 6th Partisan Infantry Regiment chronological events log. This chronological report covers the 6th Partisan Infantry Regiments daily activity from 2 March 1953 - 23 January 1954. Brought back by MSG Charles Lamb
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