From a 1952 U.S. Army television program titled The Big Picture. U.S. troops in a fox hole in Korea. A U.S. tank carrying many GIs in Germany.US ski troops in Alaska. Amphibious training on beach in Puerto Rico. United States Army Sergeant James Mansfield introduces the story of United States Seventh Army in the Allied Invasion of Southern France, "Operation Dragoon." Army Colonel William Wilson Quinn seated in office, with army rifle on his desk. He refers to the "Blue Badge" which is the Army infantryman's badge. Then he introduces the story of the Seventh United States Army: On 14 August 1944 Bay of Naples is seen as an open air Marshalling area. Barrage balloons float above the area. Large landing ships sit at dock with their front loading doors open. 3rd,45th and 36th division combined into 7th United States Army. Mechanized war equipment being loaded and checked off the loading chart. 7th army soldiers march through streets. Red Cross workers distribute donuts. Soldiers board ships. Ships leave harbor to join convoy. Ships docked at the West Coast of Corsica. Officers meet for conference aboard ship. Men attend last minute details. Some pray. Animated map depicts the route of the advancement by the troops. Port Cros and Levant : French commandos landed on these islands. U.S. B-25 bombers in flight drop bombs. Fighting ships take their positions. Navigators, gunners and signal men alert. Soldiers prepare for fight. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft fly in formation. A B-24 bomber over mountains. B-25s in flight.509th Parachute Infantry Battalion being inspected at airport. Paratroopers get into aircraft. Aircraft taxis and takes off. United States Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain and C-54 Skymaster military transport aircraft in flight toward Southern France. Paratroopers descend to ground and advance. Gliders land. Soldiers unload and ready artillery. Aerial view of rugged terrain. Ships underway at sea. Officers look through binoculars aboard ship.
U.S. supply trucks bring supplies in Kachil-Bong, Punchbowl area during Korean War. ROK (Republic of Korea) soldiers unload ration supplies from truck. They stack crates.
Ground crewmen check aircraft at airfield in Korea. Newspaper-headline, "Reds Invade South Korea". Heavy explosion of demolition bomb in area hidden by woods. Formation of Fairchild C-119s Flying Boxcar, American military transport, dropping paratroops. Formation of C-119s dropping supplies by parachute. At airfield in Korea, ground crewmen check and refuel one of several USAF F-86 Sabrejet aircraft parked on a ramp. Scene shifts to F-59 jet aircraft in flight tests at a desert location in the U.S.A. Four F-59A aircraft approach and fly low over a runway. (Korean War)
'Boxcars of the Korean Skies' shows U.S. Air Force airlift operations in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. 315th Air Division operations show C-119 Flying Boxcar and C-46 Commando transport planes being loaded at an airfield in Japan. A truck backs up to load combat equipment onto a transport plane. Soldiers unload packets from the truck and load them in the plane. Interior of the C-119 shows parachute straps being strapped to an overhead carrier. The C-119 planes taxi on a runway and take off. The pilot's compartment of a C-119 plane. The planes in flight over an area near Seoul in Korea to drop supplies for UN troops serving in Korea.
Aerial tramway for transporting U.S. supply crates in Kachil-Bong, Punchbowl area during Korean War. Korean laborer unloads 5-gallon tins and canvas sack from cable car. Ration crates are loaded on cable car by ROK (Republic of Korea) soldiers. Cable car moves away.
Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman visits U.S. troops in Korea during Korean War. Cardinal Spellman disembarks from a U.S. Military C-121 (Lockheed Constellation) aircraft, at Seoul Airport, in Korea. He is dressed in black clerical habit for traveling. General Matthew Ridgway greets Cardinal Spellman .A Korean girl presents flowers to the Archbishop who enters a car and drives away. Later, Cardinal Spellman, dressed in Army clothing, arrives at a sanctuary set up under a very large tent. Many soldiers line up to kiss the Cardinal's ring. Cardinal Spellman conducts Mass and administers Holy Communion to soldiers.