US Marines arrive in Korea. Trucks arrive with men and equipment, including a road grader. Men stand at side of road and cheer as the convoy passes. Marine convoy moving along road. Mountains which contain the Chosin Reservoir in the background. Men in truck at road side wave and smile.
US Marine convoy arrives at the Chosin Reservoir. Marines in truck at the road side wave and smile. The truck convoy. Marines jammed in the military vehicles. Tanks and jeeps in the convoy. Marines wave as they pass.
Group of Chinese prisoners in bad physical shape at the Chosin Reservoir. Faces of the Chinese prisoners. A prisoner pours something out of a can into his hand which he puts to his mouth. A US Marine gives a prisoner a drink of water. The prisoner's frozen hands. A prisoner who was captured barefooted. His feet are frozen solid with ice around the bottom of trousers. A prisoner smoking a cigarette.
US Marines retreat in the Chosin Rservoir, Korea. Some of the 15,000 marines who broke out of the Hagaru-ri trap at Chosin Reservoir as they arrive on foot and in vehicles. Military tanks and jeeps. Marines plod along the strip. A Korean woman with child on her back watches them march ahead. Men wave from the roadside.
US Marines retreat in the Chosin Reservoir, Korea. Corporal A W Rasmussen and Corporal J Scott at a water-cooled machine gun. They look through binoculars, point and talk.. Men around fire warming themselves, eating. Sherman tank with marines and some South Koreans atop comes through. Some men wave.
US Marines retreat in the Chosin Reservoir, Korea. Marines help wounded comrades to a US plane. Plane taxis on airstrip. Marines run towards a Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber which has crash-landed. The plane tilted on its nose. Marines around the plane.