"Max Desfor, 104, War Photographer" Topic
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amazing life Mr. Desfor volunteered to cover the Korean War for the news service when the North invaded the South in June 1950. He parachuted into North Korea with United States troops and retreated with them after forces from the North, joined by the Chinese, pushed south. He was in a Jeep near the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, when he spotted a bridge along the Taedong River that had been bombed. Thousands of refugees were lined up on the north bank waiting their turn to cross the river. "We came across this incredible sight," Mr. Desfor said in 1997 for an A.P. oral history. "All of these people who are literally crawling through these broken-down girders of the bridge. They were in and out of it, on top, underneath, and just barely escaping the freezing water."
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