Sailors

Unidentified sailors are carrying five inch powder to magazine in mount 51 aboard the USS Manchester. The ship was in Yokosuka, Japan.

Thai sailors move to board a United States Navy helicopter sent to rescue them after their ship, the HMTS Prasae, ran aground on the Korean coast. The helicopter, which had been borrowed from the USS Philippine Sea after the USS Manchester's helicopter crashed, was piloted by Chief Aviation Pilot D. W. Thorin who can be seen inside the helicopter.

An unidentified Thai sailor from the HMTS Prasae boards the rescue helicopter. The helicopter, which had been borrowed from the USS Philippine Sea after the USS Manchester's helicopter crashed, was piloted by Chief Aviation Pilot D. W. Thorin who can be seen inside the helicopter facing the camera. The HMTS Prasae ran aground off the coast of Korea while conducting a United Nations operation.

Thai sailors are stranded on the western coast of Korea after their ship, the HMTS Prasae ran aground during a snow storm. At a snow covered beach, the United States Navy helicopter UP 27 arrives to rescue the sailors.

Two Thai sailors stand guard on a beach behind a trench as the United States helicopter UP 27 from the USS Manchester arrives to rescue stranded sailors. The Thai sailors were in need of rescue when their ship, the HMTS Prasae ran aground during a snow storm off the western coast of Korea.

A group of unidentified Thai sailors make a close inspection of the ship HMTS Prasae after it grounded on the Korean coast during a United Nations operation.

Thai sailors gather around one wounded United States sailor who sits on the beach huddled in a blanket. The sailors await rescue from US Navy helicopters after the ship from Thailand, the HMTS Prasae ran aground off the western coast of Korea during United Nations exercises.

A Thai sailor can be seen leaping to shore after his ship, the HMTS Prasae, was grounded during a blizzard. The Prasae was part of a United Nations operation when she ran aground on the west coast of Korea.

A side view of the HMTS Prasae (ship) after she ran aground on the Korean coast during a United Nations operation. Original caption: Side of HMTS Prasae with Siamese sailor on fantail jamming 20 mm gun.

View which includes Stanley Woodward on the left and Charles S. Murphy in baseball cap to his right. Mr. Woodward was President Harry S. Truman's Chief of Protocol at the State Department, 1946-1950 and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Canada, 1950-1953. Mr. Murphy was President Truman's Administrative Assistant, 1947-1950 and Special Counsel to the President, 1950-1953. The sailor in view is not identified. The location is believed to be the destroyer Epperson and the visit occurred during a Key West, Florida trip.