Communist Chinese troops in Kaesong, Korea during the Korean War. Communist Chinese troops carrying weapons march. They try to hide weapons in bushes. A Chinese officer threatens to pull a revolver. The officer makes threatening gestures. United States Navy Admiral Charles T Joy and staff leave a conference hut as U.S. Army General Matthew Bunker Ridgway give orders to suspend truce talks. Interior of the hut shows empty conference tables.
Television in the United States in the early 1950s. A television screen. A corner of a living room. A man, his wife and a young boy, presumably their son, are watching TV; a typical suburban American family in the 1950s watching early television. The man smokes a cigarette.
Activities aboard a ship docked at Philadelphia Naval Base in Philadelphia. Ships in Reserve Fleet Basin. USS Brooklyn (CL-40) light cruiser in the foreground. Stern view of USS Brooklyn and USS Nashville (CL-43). Camera pans over ships, including the heavy cruisers USS Louisville CA 28, USS Augusta CA 31, and USS Portland CA 33, in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. United States and Chile Naval officials with State Department representatives on deck of USS Brooklyn. Navy band plays. American flag lowered and the Chilean Flag is raised aboard the USS Brooklyn. Chilean flag raised aboard the USS Nashville. United States Navy Rear Admiral Roscoe E Schuirmann hands ships papers to Chilean Ambassador Felix Nieto Del Rio. Chilean flag fly at masts of the USS Nashville and USS Brooklyn. Chilean officers inspect. Ambassador Del Rio and Vice Admiral of the Chilean Navy, Immanuel Holger come up gangway of USS Brooklyn. Rear Admiral Schuirmann greets them. Yni Louis Rivas Voisin and Yoeman Felix Labbe of the Chilean Navy raise flag aboard USS Brooklyn.
Occasion is the transfer to Brazil of the USS Philadelphia (CL-41) and the USS St. Louis (CL-49). A number of U.S. Navy warships are docked as part of the U.S. Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Philadelphia Naval Yard in Pennsylvania. Rear Admiral Schuirmann comes aboard the USS Philadelphia (CL-41) light cruiser prior to the transfer ceremony. American and Brazilian Naval officers are assembled on deck and salute as the American flag is lowered from the mast of the USS Philadelphia. Views of the assembled officers and of several Brazilian sailors, as well. All salute as the Brazilian flag is raised on the Philadelphia Closeup of Brazilian sailors and Marine raising their flag on the USS St. Louis. Views of the USS Philadelphia and the USS St. Louis, at dockside. A Brazilian sailor standing near the St. Louis. He salutes the Brazilian flag flying from her mast.
Montage of Korean War scenes. View of mountainous terrain in Korea, 1950. American soldier holds his ears as gun crew fires a 240mm howitzer. American soldiers, in heavily sand-bagged position, firing 4.2 inch mortar. Gunners firing a quad .50 machine gun and others firing a 155mm howitzer and an M2 .50-caliber machine gun. American soldiers in sandbagged and camouflaged bunkers. An army patrol heading out from their defensive position. Barrels of artillery pieces silhouetted against the sky. Numerous bursts of artillery fire flashing in the black of night. Weary soldiers returning from a patrol.
Hundreds die due to an earthquake in Jucuapa, El Salvador. People walk through ruins in one of the villages devastated by the earthquake. People stand in front of damaged houses and a destroyed church. People in a damaged building. Wreckage in the city. Body of a deceased man lying on top of rubble after the earthquake. Men carry coffins. Homeless girls line up at a relief station. Medical aid provided to people at a relief camp. Medic cleans the wound of a man. People walk through the ruins.
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