here's a picture of old baldy. on the main line of resistance, where the line exist. -- dmz currently exists. it earns his name from lieutenant belton woods, because of the heavy fighting, all of vegetation was destroyed. it had been covered in forest and scrub. now it looks like this. in 1953, private first class james davis said that most of the fighting took place on outposts -- ugly, treeless hills located well in front of the mainline. while the communists lost a lot of men trying to defend them, we lost a lot of men. this was a kind of territory they were fighting in. and here is a picture of the mainline a resistance, the mlr. the 38th parallel, this is a picture of colombian troops. you can see their trenches cut along, and this was where the men would take cover as shells and artillery would be coming in. now, this looks fairly dry now. but remember, korea has monsoonal season. in the spring and summer it rains buckets. so these would be filled with rain and mud, it is very slippery. there on very steep sl