Yongsan Garrison, South Korea, December 1961: Chi Jung Kim (right), carpenter shop supervisor and S/Sgt. Dell E. Carter, non-commissioned officer in charge at the Eight Army Training Aids Center finish the build of a grenade mock-up, showing the inside workings of a hand grenade.

The center provides any equipment or device needed as training aid for military classes throughout the United Nations Command. Most of the items – anything from lecterns and pointers to hurdles for sentry dog training and even a fake human arm with “blood” for medic training - are stocked in the Yongsan warehouse.

Regular shipments from the Naval Training Devices Center and the Department of the Army take care of some of the supplies, but many of the items – such as the fake arm – are constructed by local Korean members of the center themselves. The unit is run by two officers, and they are the only military personnel in the outfit.

Pictured here is a scan of the original 1961 print created by Stars and Stripes Pacific’s photo department to run in the print newspaper. The red marks indicate the crop lines. Only the middle part of the image would appear in the newspaper.

As the vast majority of pre-1964 Stars and Stripes Pacific negatives and slides were unwittingly destroyed by poor temporary storage in 1963, the prints developed from the late 1940s through 1963 are the only images left of Stripes’ news photography from those decades – with the exception the negatives of some 190 pre-1964 photo assignment found recently.

Stars and Stripes’ archives team is scanning these prints and negatives to ensure their preservation.