One Jam Broken--Men of 84th Engineer construction battalion are having a hard time keeping the “Freedom Gate” bridge over the Imjin River at Munsan, Korea from being broken up by ice floes. In lower photo a charge of TNT explodes temporarily breaking up the jam. The bridge is used daily by Allied personnel going to the armistice talks at Panmunjon.
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One Jam Broken--Men of 84th Engineer construction battalion are having a hard time keeping the “Freedom Gate” bridge over the Imjin River at Munsan, Korea from being broken up by ice floes. In lower photo a charge of TNT explodes temporarily breaking up the jam. The bridge is used daily by Allied personnel going to the armistice talks at Panmunjon.

Associated Press · [ca. March 1952]

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[Information from item housing] Weather: Ice Jams & Floes: Wire Photos

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