Because I'm bored at SFO waiting to see if I'm bumped, treating you all to a 75 yr old picture never
Posted by LeatherneckIllini


on June 28, 2025, 11:34:50
seen before by anyone but me in decades. Possibly the earliest high quality picture of Pyongyang. From our grandfather. Don't worry, I let the NGA's historian's office scan all of these years ago.... just in case. And as it turns out, one of the ways we find out what is underground is retracing the history of what is above ground. So I was able to tell our grandfather his photos (that he used to train photo intelligence officers after he returned from his year in Korea) were being put to use. The other originals are in an old salt mine and would take thousands of dollars to retrieve so they were very happy to have these. The sticky note is actually from him. 
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