(Chester M. Houswerth Jr./Stars and Stripes)

Incheon harbor, Incheon, South Korea, September 1958: Some of the 8224th Military Police Detachment in Incheon, South Korea, have traded their Jeeps in for J boats to form the Incheon Harbor Patrol. Everything that floats, from freighters to sampans, came under the patrol’s watchful eye. Read more here.

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