ZUM4866396: Aug. 01, 1953 - Under armed guard, North Korean POWS transfer from Navy transport to shallow - draft LSU, which will take them into Inchon harbor where they will be held preparatory to POW trade in” Operation Big Switch” which starts 8/5. These Pows were held on Koje-de. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4869530: Aug. 08, 1953 - Explosion of an ammonia tank-car at Darmstadt: Last Friday morning an ammonia car exploded on the territory of the chemical firm Rohm and Haas; the reasonsare not cleared yet. In some seconds the whole area was wrapped in thick ammonia clowds. The laborers had to the hospital with Serio poisoning. The Work to fight the fire and to save the labourors was very difficult, because the wind always changed and the corade gas too. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4869591: Aug 10, 1947 - Washington, District of Columbia, U.S. - President HARRY S. TRUMAN (C) signs a proclamation marking August 1st, 1947, the 40th birthday of the AAF, as Air Force Day, at a White House ceremony on the 10th, witnessed by former Lieutenant General JAMES H. DOOLITTLE (L), president of the Air Force Association; W. STUART SYMINGTON (R), Assistant Secretary of War for Air; Major General LAURIE NORSTAD (2nd R) and Director of Plans and Operations Division of the War Department General Staff; and Lieutenant General HOYT S. VANDENBERG (2nd L), Deputy Commander of the AAF. Observances from coast to coast and throughout the world will honor the millions of men and women, living and dead, whose contributions to the growth of American air power make the AAF this country's most far-reaching weapon of defense. / Bridgeman Images