life: On the anniversary of the start of that brutal, often savage conflict, we present a gallery of Duncan’s celebrated pictures from America’s “Forgotten War.” LIFE also spoke with Duncan himself — a still-vibrant 96-year-old who today lives in the south of France — about his memories of the conflict and his hope, in the end, that he might “show something of what a man endures when his country decides to go to war.” Pictured: An American Marine sleeps in his halted jeep while a puppy whines in his ear during the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, December 1950. See more of his photos here.

life:

On the anniversary of the start of that brutal, often savage conflict, we present a gallery of Duncan’s celebrated pictures from America’s “Forgotten War.”

LIFE also spoke with Duncan himself — a still-vibrant 96-year-old who today lives in the south of France — about his memories of the conflict and his hope, in the end, that he might “show something of what a man endures when his country decides to go to war.”

Pictured: An American Marine sleeps in his halted jeep while a puppy whines in his ear during the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir, December 1950.

See more of his photos here.

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