Activities of U.S. Cavalry tanks in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. troops examine North Korean T-34 tank. U.S. M4A3E8 Sherman tanks in operation. Mountains in background. U.S. tanks go through an open field. M4 Tank passes through muddy terrain. U.S. M4 tanks take up positions and fire guns at distant targets. Smoke rises from exploding shells. Two U.S. Army field grade officers consult a map and converse.
American ace fighter pilot, Colonel Francis Gabreski, returns home to California after shooting down a record number of enemy planes in Korea and World War II. Colonel Gabreski receives a heroic welcome on his arrival. (Korean War period.)
Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman, in his speech in Washington DC criticizes the fresh aggression in Korea. He declares that United States with its allies under the flag of United Nations will work towards the cause of building a free world. He declares that their policy is to deter aggression.
Members of United Nations Security Council meet in New York to discuss on Chinese arms invasion on Taiwan and aggression against the Republic of Korea. Meetings agenda is put before the members and discussion takes place as members of various countries listen with their headphones on and take down notes. Representatives of Norway, United States, Britain, Egypt, Yugoslavia and other countries take part in the meeting
Japanese women welcome GIs in Japan. Japanese women wearing traditional kimonos dance on a dockside welcoming GIs from the United States. GIs on the ship approaching the dock watch the women dance. The women performing an angel dance wave small U.S. flags. The soldiers, bound to Korea as replacements, disembark from the ship holding their baggages.
Communist youth rally in Warsaw during the Cold War. Participants carry two large posters bearing the images of Joseph Stalin and Polish President Dr. Boleslaw Bierut. Polish drummers march. Polish flags are being waved. Polish people clap in unison as they watch the youth rally. Polish official wave with rose bouquet. North Korean youth delegates, wearing the North Korean Pioneer uniform, march in Warsaw Youth Rally with the North Korean flag and posters of Supreme Leader of North Korea and President Kim Il-Sung and Chinese Communist Leader Mao Zedong. North Korean youth delegates waving flowers and flags in the air during Youth Rally. Polish Youth Rally participants marching. Polish President Dr. Boleslaw Bierut claps during rally. Polish spectators clap in unison from building. Youth rally marching with Stalin’s poster in Warsaw. Polish youth rally participants carry large letters spelling “WROCLAW” and the coat of arms of Wroclaw, Poland. Polish youth rally participants carry letters spelling cities in Poland. Female polish youth carry flags during youth rally. Youth rally participants carry posters of communist figures and a model of the Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science. Polish couple, the woman wearing a floral headscarf and the man with sunglasses, watch the rally. An political effigy of United States President Harry Truman, depicted holding a Nazi Swastika wand, is being paraded during the youth rally. Effigies of rats with top hats, skeletons and Nazi Swastikas, are being paraded around Warsaw by Polish youth during rally. Polish officials watch from review platform. Polish youth rally marching.