Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-442097

Syngman Rhee
,
President of the Republic of Korea, (left)

Presents the ROK Order of Military Merit (Taiguk), to Rear Admiral Ralph A. Ofstie, USN, Commander Task Force 77, in ceremonies at the Presidential residence in Pusan, Korea.
Also present, in center, is the ROK Chief of Naval Operations, Vice Admiral Sohn Won Il.
Photo is dated 13 May 1952.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 620 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

10 November 1999