Somewhere in South Korea, April 1955: Personnel of the 24th Recon, Co. in Korea eat lunch on tables outside their Quonset hut mess hall while the building gets a spring cleaning. “It’s almost like a picnic,” one of the 24th Div. soldiers cracked as he looked up at a warming April sun. Their squad tent quarters appear left background.

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