Members of a USO troupe at Seoul Airport (K-16), Korea, including a number of women. They descend stairs from a Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C-121 aircraft, tail number 8817. They mingle with U.S. airmen on the ramp and pose for pictures with them. Several pose on top of a set of stairs showing the 5th Air Force logo and the words: 6167th Air Base Group.
Invasion of Seoul, Korea by U.S. 1st Marine Division during the Korean War. U.S. Marines advance toward Seoul city after they cross the Han River. The marines fire guns at enemy positions. U.S. Air Force fighter airplanes drop bombs over ground targets. Smoke rises from the bombardment. U.S. Marines receive heavy artillery fire by the North Korean People's Army. Wounded marines are evacuated. The marines involved in street fight. They advance after the capture of Seoul. A marine reads an American newspaper about U.S. Marines advance in Seoul. UN (United Nations) troops advance in North Korea after securing Seoul. Tanks, jeeps and trucks loaded with marines move ahead. Soldiers march along a road.
Propaganda film made by North Korea. American soldiers, on sightseeing tours, and at rodeo. Public building in Seoul. Unemployed Koreans gambling and loafing in Bagado park, Seoul. Korean fortune teller in park. Market place in Seoul. Korean people looking at Japanese goods being sold. Slum sections of Seoul. Korean inspector searching private home. Sign on door "Contagious Disease". Sick children lying in streets. Sign "Give Us Rice". Idle factories. Wrecked factory equipment. American soldiers and Korean girls dancing and drinking in night clubs. Wild Korean Jazz band. Flashing night club signs. Night scene of Korean placing sign on wall that the Russians and Americans should leave Korea. Korean police walking threateningly toward the Korean. Atrocities committed by the South Koreans: Tortures and beating in cellars, dragging men and women behind trucks, hanging of many men and women at the Song Ack mountain in Kai Sung. Corpses lying on ground after being cut down from the trees. Men, women and children with hands tied behind their backs lying in shallow graves. Communists in South Korea revolting and killing police
United States President Lyndon B. Johnson visits Korea after the Manila Summit Conference. Various scenes from the Korean War. City ruins and debris in Seoul after the Korean War. Korean refugees flee on foot with their belongings. Tall modern buildings and factories in Seoul, Korea. Korean civilians gather along the canal as they hold a Korean flag in hand. President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with the Koreans. President Johnson inaugurates 'Johnson Hill' in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province (near Seoul) as a remembrance to his visit in Korea. He flies off in his helicopter back to Seoul after his visit to Gyeonggi Province.
U.S. soldiers at the 40th Infantry Division area in Seoul. Sergeant Tubb and Private First Calss (Pfc) Hill return from R&R (Rest and Relaxation) in Japan. Hill and Tubb are greeted by a GI as they enter sandbagged squad position facing enemy slope. Sergeant Tubb borrows binoculars from a soldier and looks out as a ROK (Republic of Korea) soldier or KATUSA (Korean Augmentation Troops to the United States Army) fires sniper rifle alongside. The Sergeant places his hand on ROK's shoulder as a signal to cease fire, he continues viewing with binoculars. Smoke from an explosion filters into the area. Another rifleman joins the sniper in firing.
United States Marines and 7th Infantry Division troops fight on street in Seoul, South Korea and recapture the city on September 26, 1950. A geographical map shows the map of Korea with the area that was occupied by United States troops beginning September 20, 1950. United States Marines and 7th Infantry Division troops fight in ruins of Seoul. Soldiers take shelter behind sandbag wall and fires at enemy. Soldiers fire from building. Soldiers and tanks advance on damaged Seoul Street. Troops take rest. Marine reads newspaper cutting headlined 'Marines enter Seoul Fight Reds in Street'.