Animated map shows South Korea, from 38th parallel, South, and highlights Pusan, and the advances being made by UN forces after being reinforced. Next, the UN amphibious landings at Inchon (or Incheon) are shown on the map. Flashes of naval gunfire are seen in the blackness of night. Next, a Landing Craft Tank (Rocket), LCT(R), is seen firing barrages of rockets toward shore, at Inchon. On September 15, 1950, U.S. troops are seen landing at Incheon, from boats of the attack transport ship, USS Noble (APA-218). Return to the animated map shows advance of UN forces from Inchon joining with those advancing from Pusan, until they occupy most of the area south of the 38th parallel. UN infantry are seen engaged in urban combat in the city of Seoul, accompanied by M26 Pershing tanks and M46 Patton tanks. Building burning in the city. UN soldiers firing rifles inside damaged building. American soldiers, under fire, carrying wounded on litter. Medical corpsmen tending to casualties, including wounded Korean civilians. Republic of Korea (ROK) infantry following four of their soldiers carrying their flag, stretched out horizonally, between them. (Narrator states they are carrying it back to the liberated capital of Seoul.) ROK troops escorting large number of prisoners of war, marching with hands on heads. UN forces distributing rice and clothing to the Korean inhabitants of Seoul. Soldiers helping little Korean children don clothing. Bodies of men, women, and children who were slain by retreating enemy troops, are laid out on the ground, attended by Grieving relatives. Large quantities of captured North Korean weapons are piled up, including those made in the Soviet Union.
Graphic Korean children zooms to 'Korea Revisited' title. Wide shot of Korean countryside. June 25, 1950 North Korean troops attacking across to start Korean war. Dramatization depicting South Korean soldier hit by bullet. South Korean soldiers retreating from war front. American soldiers fighting at start of Korean war. Australian soldier on patrol. Howitzers being fired. Train carrying Chinese troops moving towards war front. Chinese troops in trenches and advancing. Mortar firing. Chinese troops advancing in snow. Street fighting in Seoul, South Korea.
MiG kills in Korea shows series of attacks by U.S. aircraft on Soviet-made MiG-15 aircraft during the Korean War. Various views of MiG aircraft under attack and being hit in aerial battle, as seen in gun camera footage.
The Korean Armistice Agreement signed by Communist delegates and United Nations delegates in Panmunjom, Korea ending the Korean War. UN (United Nations) honor guard lined up outside the building where armistice is to be signed. U.S. Army Lieutenant General William K. Harrison, Jr. arrives with other officials at the building. Delegate Harrison and Communist delegates sign the peace agreement. Harrison leaves the building. Far East Commander U.S. Army General Mark W. Clark signs the Korean Armistice Agreement at a base camp. Army cameramen take pictures.
Opening slate of August 1950 newsreel refers to Seesaw battle on beachhead. It shows several U.S. soldiers manning a 105mm howitzer field piece on sandy ground beside a steep hill. A small American flag marks their position. Scene shifts to a bivouac area of large tents and vehicles on flat ground. A body of water and higher ground is seen in the background. Next, an American flag flutters in the breeze, on a makeshift flagpole, atop a hill, where several soldiers are maintaining a lookout. A large radio antenna is installed on the hill. Back down on the flat land, American troops are breaking camp, pulling down the large tents. At Pohang Air Base (K-3) American troops are pulling down tents and packing up to leave. A C-46 transport plane sits nearby and a C-47 transport is in the background. Troops burn papers in 55-gallon drums. Troops load Army trucks with tents and equipment. Aerial glimpse of the area showing high hills surrounding it. View from a farm field where farmers are working, as four USAF F-80C jet fighter planes take off from the nearby airfield. View from aircraft flying above, as an F-80 attacks a ground target. Gun camera view of American aircraft strafing an installation at the base of a mountain. Explosions from striking rounds. Pilot pulls up abruptly to avoid the mountain. Gun camera view of rockets being fired from attacking aircraft on lines of communication, including rail and port facilities. Fires and smoke from the attacks. A strafing attack against a moving railroad train. The aircraft passes through heavy black smoke as the pilot breaks off the attack. Two views from aircraft making low passes over a major fire at a port facility. Both times the aircraft barely skirts heavy billowing black clouds. A line of white smoke arising from ground targets. Change of scene to the beach area shown at opening of the film, where an American gun crew is firing an M-101 105mm howitzer field piece, viewed from several angles. Change of scene shows U.S. troops working their way carefully along a mountain road in the Pusan Perimeter. Two soldiers run back from the front of the column. Troops pausing while staying close to the mountainside. Suddenly, a shell bursts just a short distance fron them, raising dense black smoke. Soldiers run across the road to seek protection close to the mountain. American soldiers moving carefully behind a parked M8 light armored car. Various vies of American soldiers operating in the mountainous area. Glimpse of fallen North Korean soldiers in the brush and foliage. American troops display a captured North Korean flag. South Korean soldiers on sentry duty outside fortified compound. Armed South Korean soldiers escort two ambulatory wounded North Korean prisoners. Wounded American soldier on a stretcher, being removed from a Sikorsky H-5 helicopter, at an airfield and being carried toward the aircraft flight line.
United States Marines retreat southwards from 38th Parallel as a result of Chinese aggression in Korea. United States Marines retreat in trucks as they cross bridges over rivers. In north east Korea U.S. marines trapped in Chosin reservoir area. Aerial view of the region with a convoy of trucks on road. Marines seated in a snow covered field as they pack up to retreat. Marines sleep in bags. Food and ammunition being packed in Japan for transporting it to the Marines trapped in Korea. United States Air Force C-119 aircraft in flight as it carries the supplies. Bridges, food and medical supplies being air dropped. Marines eat food. Marines destroy installation and equipment. Wounded marines being carried on litters and loaded aboard an aircraft at an airstrip. Wounded being loaded onto planes for flight to Japan. A Korean child being loaded onto a plane. Marines retreat along a road.
Major events of the year 1951. War takes place in Korea. Artillery fired and Koreans captured. News paper headline symbolizes removal of General MacArthur as the Chief of the United Nations forces in Korea. General Matthew Ridgway takes over as the Chief of the United Nations forces. Dead prisoners of war lined up. General Eisenhower with Korean representatives in Korea as they sign an agreement for a buffer zone. (Korean War)
Major General Gavin of United States 82nd Airborne Division and Captain Cameroon Briggs,Commanding Officer on the deck of United States Navy aircraft carrier Boxer (CV-21). Flight Deck chief signals and Lieutenant Scott Cummins climbs into cockpit of his F-4U-4 Corsair. Lt. Cummins has Navy Fighter Squadron VF-63 Fighting Redcocks patch on his right shoulder. VF-63 is part of Carrier Air Group 2 (CVG-2). (Korean War)
A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. United States soldiers being trained in the use of recoilless rifle. Men fire recoilless rifles. Soldiers fire rifles during a training exercise. Smoke rises. A soldier look through binoculars. Scene changes to Korea. North Korean Army soldiers on motorbikes, bicycles and horses advance in Korea during the Korean War. Artillery and mortars being set up and fired by North Korean forces. U.S. Army soldiers carrying rifles advance in Korea during the Korean War. American Army soldiers take up positions on hills overlooking a valley and are seen firing at North Korean enemy positions. U.S. Army soldiers return to the United States after the Korean War. They disembark from a ship. The soldiers loaded in trucks move past cheering crowds in a New York parade.
Steps leading to White House garden. President Harry S Truman reads the citation and then puts the Medal of Honor on Hudner in Washington DC. President shakes hand with the Lieutenant. Civilian news and still cameramen at work as Medal of Honor is awarded to Hudner. The President posing with Hudner, the latter's parents, and Daisy Brown, the widow of Ensign Jesse Leroy Brown, whose husband was the shipmate of Lieutenant Hudner, whom Hudner was trying to save. Mrs. Brown stands. Hudner wearing medal. Lieutenant shaking hands with Mrs. Brown. Still photograph of Ensign Brown. The plane of Leroy Brown was downed by enemy Chinese fire during the Korean War. Hudner crash landed his own aircraft in an attempt to free Brown from his plane's wreckage, but he was unable to free him from the cockpit where Brown later died. Ensign Jesse Brown was the first African American pilot in the U.S. Navy, and the first U.S. Navy officer killed in the Korean War. Hudner was the first Medal of Honor recipient during the Korean War.
United Nations forces during the Korean War. Troops being served food near Yalu river on the Manchurian border during the Korean War. Soldiers being served food on the occasion of thanksgiving. Soldiers at a machine gun as a mess Sargent brings the Thanksgiving dinner for them. Chinese prisoners being rounded up as China enters the Korean War. United States 1st Marine Division troops and tanks retreat from the area. They move along the Hagaru road under extreme climatic conditions. Tents, trucks and tanks at the camp area. United States Air Force C-47 and C-119 aircraft drop food supplies by parachutes. Abandoned supplies and equipment being burned by the UN troops as they prepare to leave the area.
U.S. soldiers of the 8th Army are jammed aboard an M46 Patton tank as they participate in a UN counter-attack against Chinese forces in the Korean War. Several tanks full of soldiers and some in jeeps, are seen fording river swollen by Spring melting and rains. Closeup of GIs riding tank. Narrator states they are heading beyond the 38th parallel. U.S. troops seen hunkered down as UN shell fire strikes at Chinese positions to slow down their anticipated Spring Offensive. White smoke rises from nearby exploding Chinese shells. U.S. 8th Army troops fall back as shells fall around them, to take up new defensive positions. Scene shifts to a large gathering of South Korean waifs. Closeup of some in a line, and inside a building, receiving clothing from U.S. Marines of the 1st Marine Division. It had been collected by the Marine Corps League, in many American cities. Marines are seen helping Korean children dress in the new clothes. Closeup of Korean children huddled down for a photograph. (Korean War)
View inside pilot's Ready Room aboard the USS Princeton (CVA-37) during the Korean War. Intelligence officer discusses a map with a pilot from Fighter Squadron FS-191, who wears the "Satan's Kittens" patch on shoulder of his leather jacket. The pilot and intelligence officer also speak with two other fliers seated, who consult their own maps. Upon conclusion of briefing, the three fliers pick up their helmets and oxygen masks, and leave the ready room. A loudspeaker is shown, presumably in use. (Note: Squadron FS-191 is made up of former members of the Navy's "Blue Angels" demonstration team, which was dissolved when the Korean War broke out.)
The role of the American Army Medical Service during the Korean war. U.S. Army Captain Carl Zimmerman introduces Major General George E. Armstrong, Surgeon General of the U.S. Army who speaks from Washington, DC, about the work of the medical service. Scenes from the Korean War. U.S. troops rushed from japan, in July 1950 after a Chinese offensive at the 38th Parallel. Troops disembarking from ship and unloading artillery. Medical personnel offloading from assault boats, including doctors, medics, ambulances and drivers. A crane offloads medical equipment and supplies from a ship. Nurses with a mobile surgical hospital unit. Medics remove a casualty from an ambulance, on a stretcher. U.S. infantry slogging through difficult terrain. An ambulance driven on a mud road. Korean refugee families. Children sit and eat. People walk. An old Korean man is helped into a car. U.S. C-54 transport aircraft unloading supplies and evacuating wounded on stretchers. Medical supplies being unloaded from an aircraft and loaded into a truck. Surgeons in a tent hospital. A doctor treats a patient who is receiving blood plasma in an IV. Medics moving with tanks and infantry. Walking wounded being assisted. U.S. wounded lying on the ground, attended by medics. The U.S. medics treat injured soldiers during a tank battle. Soldiers on tanks. Thousands of paratroopers jumping from aircraft, their parachutes filling the skies. U.S. Army wounded being treated on stretchers around the Yalu River. Tenth Corps Troops in long winter withdrawal. U.S. Marine aircraft evacuating wounded. Troops withdrawing by sea in Landing Ships.
Highlights covering General Douglas MacArthur, from 1945 through 1950. The Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. Several Japanese bowing towards the Palace. General Douglas MacArthur exits a car in Tokyo and walks up steps to enter his headquarters in Japan. Emperor Hirohito walks between two U.S. sentries, as he leaves a building and enters his limousine. Japanese citizens form lines on streets to cast ballots in election.Several Japanese women voting. Exterior of the Japanese National Diet building. Interior with representatives seated. A farmer behind a cultivator, pulled by an ox, in a rice paddy. Japanese school children waving American and Japanese flags together, as MacArthur leaves his Tokyo headquarters, walks down steps, and enters car. MacArthur saluting at a military ceremony, where his wife, Jean MacArthur, and son Arthur are spectators. Explosions in hills, from American Patton tank shelling North Korean positions in Korean War. American soldiers firing a mortar; infantry advancing along sides of road; and American tank commander rendering first aid to wounded comrade. United States Air Force (USAF) C-47 transport aircraft ferrying American troops into Korea, from Japan. American infantry marching across a bridge; firing mortars and rifles; and advancing on foot across fields. American troops on trucks followed by a Patton medium tank. MacArthur meeting troops on river boat; riding in a jeep; being briefed by U.S. officer in the field; examining a knocked out tank; and decorating U.S. troops in winter. Closeup of MacArthur in winter gear with his circle of five stars pined into a fur cap. Views of U.S. amphibious landing at Inchon (or Incheon) in Korean War. MacArthur watching from a ship offshore. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, reading message of appreciation to General MacArthur and shaking hands with him at the podium. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, pinning a medal on General MacArthur,on Wake Island in October, 1950.
The United Nation forces below the 38th Parallel during the Korean War. United States 25th Infantry Division move towards Seoul, Korea during the Korean War. Soldiers advance along the hills as they fire. Chinese prisoners being searched for weapons and being provided first aid. American soldier sits with a gun. Prisoners being escorted to the rear for further interrogation. Prisoners and soldiers advance on a road. UN task Force move north of Suwon, Korea. American soldiers rest. General Joseph S. Bradley confers with the Company Commander.
United States President Harry S. Truman dismisses General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War. Newsmen gather to collect news about the dismissal of Supreme Commander of the far east for the United States General Douglas MacArthur. A newspaper headlines reads ' Truman fires MacArthur' Past events show General MacArthur in Tokyo as he comes out of an official building. General at the war front as he gets up dates about the Korean War from the soldiers. President Harry S. Truman during his visit to Korea being greeted by General MacArthur.
Weapons and equipment used by the U.S. Army during the Korean War. U.S. Air Force aircraft in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. troops load bombs and rockets on F4U Corsair aircraft at an airfield. Rockets mounted under the wings of the aircraft. An aircraft takes off and fires rockets at lines of communication on ground.. Rocket launchers fired by U.S. troops. The troops fire carbines and machine guns at enemy on a battlefield. Marines board a helicopter. The helicopter takes off from a field. It drops supply crates on the field.
Korean war tragedy. Despite peace talks in Korean War, the plight of homeless, sick and starving continues. Estimate of three million civilians casualties. Refugees including many children in makeshift homes and camps. Civilian refugees include both North Koreans and South Koreans.
A film on the importance of photographic reconnaissance during the Korean War. U.S. Navy pilots and and an officer in a briefing room. They study pictures taken by pilots. The officer briefs them. He marks target areas on the photographs. Men carrying bombs on a trailer of aircraft carrier flight deck. They are loaded in airplanes. An aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean. Flags flying giving signals. The aircraft taking off from the carrier, including Douglas AD Skyraider aircraft and F9F Panther jet aircraft. The photograph pilot seated in the cockpit of F9F airplane. The aircraft takes off. F9F Panther airplanes fly in formation overhead. Aerial view of a target area in Korea. Smoke rises from bombardment of the area. The airplanes drop bombs. Heavy columns of smoke rise. The enemy fires anti aircraft guns. The bombs are dropped in the correct area by taking information from the photographs. Includes multiple gun camera views of actual strafing and bombing of targets by U.S. Navy aircraft during the Korean War. Also includes a small amount of dramatized on ground battle scenes.
Scenes from the first year of the Korean War. The United Nations General Assembly meeting in Lake Success, New York. Delegates from Iceland seated. Osten Unden, Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs, seen reading a newspaper. Glimpse of delegates from Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia (with Amir Faisal al Saud, seated at the right). Delegates from other nations are also seen. American soldiers slowly retreating during initial phase of action in Korea. Closeup of U.S. Lieutenant General Walton Walker and Major General Bill Dean. More views of retreating U.S. and South Korean soldiers. An injured soldier carried on a litter. A small Korean child and crying baby. Long line of Korean civilians carrying all their possessions, walk behind the retreating UN forces. Injured soldiers being assisted by comrades. Animated map of Korea and surrounding countries. The Yalu River; 38th parallel; and Port of Pusan are shown. UN Defense of Pusan perimeter is illustrated. Scene shifts to 105mm field artillery batteries firing at the perimeter. An M46 Patton tank dug in and firing its 90mm M3A1 gun. UN troops firing M1 81mm mortars. Infantry firing their rifles. UN Reinforcements arriving at Pusan in boats from the U.S. Transport ship, USS Union (AKA-106). U.S. troops arriving from LST 607. Troop reinforcements assembling and moving out from Pusan Harbor. British Commonwealth troops of the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade arriving at Pusan aboard the British aircraft carrier, HMS Unicorn (D-72). Military supplies piled up on the wharf. Heavy equipment being offloaded from transport ships. Troops attending a religious service at the Pusan battle front. UN 105mm artillery pieces firing at the front. Australian infantry moving past a burning hut. UN troops moving forward through a Korean town, where the UN flag flies from a building. Troops advancing through unusual landscape including monumental balancing rock formation. (Korean War)
United States President Harry S. Truman dismisses General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War. President Truman addresses the nation and explains the reasons for the dismissal of General MacArthur as the Supreme Commander of the UN forces in Korea. Truman clarifies in his address that the "cause of world piece is much more important than any individual." He notes his concerns that the Korean War could become a World War III. He says that General MacArthur has been dismissed to uphold the cause of world peace. He however explains that the change in command must not be seen as change in policies. He assures that the Allies will not widen the war. He also affirms his faith in principles of peace, justice and freedom.
Korean War and the World politics of the times. United States President Harry S. Truman during an address in Washington D.C. states that United States believes in a peaceful world order. He also hints of nuclear weapons use in Korea if peace is threatened. United States forces in Korea face the Red Chinese armies. Artillery being fired and explosions occur at the front. At the United Nations Security Council meeting in New York representative of Republic of Korea questions the Chinese delegates regarding the Chinese aggression on Korea. United States delegate Warren Austin also expresses worry over the fate of world peace in the light of Korean War.
Soviet military forces in massed formations at Red Square, in Moscow, Russia. Joseph Stalin stands on balcony above. Scenes of rebellion in Europe and Asia. A map of Korea. June 25, 1950, as Korean War war broke out between North and South Korea. Buildings burning. Refugees fleeing. View of United Nations building on East River in New York City, where American ambassador Warren Austin is speaking. View of the Capitol in Washington, DC. President Truman, speaking, committed U.S. forces to action. U.S. Reservists are recalled to active duty to fight in Korea. Some are seen getting off a bus at a military base reception center. Recalled reservists with full field gear, starting their journey overseas, and later seen in Korea. U.S. tanks moving over the road manned by soldiers with World War Two experience. Numerous scenes of heavy artillery firing, mostly at night. U.S. regular Army, National Guard, and Army reserve soldiers engaged in fire fights in Korean War using tanks, artillery, mortars, and rifles. Soldiers administer first air and assist wounded comrades. American troops slogging through rain and snow in Korea. Soldiers eating from mess kits, and reading the Stars and Stripes newspaper, during a lull in combat. North Korean officers arriving, in snow, for armistice talks. Following the truce, American soldiers are seen packed up and heading home from Korea.
Presentation of United Nations flag and presentation of Silver Star to U.S. officers in Taegu, South Korea during Korean War. Colonel A. G. Katzin, Secretary to 1st Secretary-General of United Nations Trygve Lie, presents UN flag to U.S. General Walton Walker. General Walker hands UN Colors to soldier of Color Guard. Color Guard marches. General Walker talks to Colonel Katzin. Colonel Katzin talks to U.S. Ambassador To South Korea John J. Muccio. Chief of KMAG (Korean Military Advisory Group) Colonel W. H. S. Wright pins the Silver Star on U.S. Lieutenant G. D. Mohr's jacket for bravery in Korean War.
Navy Commander R.W. Rynd, Commander of U.S. Navy Fighter Squadron VF-64, is seen briefing squadron pilots, aboard the USS Boxer (CV-21) prior to the Squadron's first air strike in the Korean War.
Water level inside the boiler shell of United States Navy air craft carrier Boxer (CV-21) during the Korean War. A sailor looks at the switch board in engine room of the carrier. Two sailors adjust the governor control valve.
Republic of Korea and U.S. Army soldiers fire M-114 howitzer during Korean War. One soldier's sleeveless shirt has "ROKFO" stenciled on it. Smoke rises due to explosions at targets in the mountains. U.S. Army Patton tanks on road with infantry walking along road sides. U.S. soldiers running and maneuvering in field, under enemy fire. climb on the mountains. U.S. troops fire a machine gun. U.S. tank uses a flamethrower, against enemy target. Jet of burning napalm arcs through the air some distance and drops downward striking target.
Sign reads 'Bid Room, P & C Div' and 'P R Pagliocca'. Japanese industrialist business men in suits seen receiving information about United Nations military needs so they can bid for contracts to supply them. View of Japanese industrial factories at work during rebulding of Japan a few years after the end of World War 2. Steel mill with Bessemer converter furnace tilting and firing, ingots ready for forging, hot steel ribbons being placed in wire mills. United Nations Military equipment being repaired in Japan during the Korean war.
A U.S. Army at snowcapped bunkers at the top of a hill during Korean War. Soldiers keep a watch from atop the hill and conduct routine patrols. One soldier showing a army jeep under a camouflage cover. Soldiers occupying their positions in tanks and a bunker respectively. 1951.
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