Operation Little Switch for repatriation of former prisoners of war late in the Korean War (followed by Operation Big Switch in August). Released United States soldiers who were POW (Prisoners Of War) are in transport from Panmunjom, Korea to Tokyo annex in Japan. Medics load sick or injured U.S. Army soldiers aboard ambulances at the Tokyo annex. An African American soldier, former prisoner of war, smiles. Ambulatory former prisoners walk out. Several views of smiling African American patients. Mrs. Maruine Doran Clark, wife of General Mark Clark, shakes hand with repatriated U.S. Army soldiers at the airbase.
Operation Little Switch repatriation operation late in Korean War (followed by Operation Big Switch in August), in which released United States former POW (Prisoners Of War) are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tokyo, Japan. The liberated soldiers get dressed in clean uniforms. Red Cross workers make tags for the returnees. A Red Cross nurse smiles. A Greek patient reading in bed. The patient smiles.
Operation Little Switch (first part of Operation Big Switch) in which released POW (Prisoners Of War) are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tachikawa, Tokyo. Two repatriated soldiers play chess on a bed. The soldiers playing chess. A soldier with a cigarette. The soldiers in a group play dominoes in a hospital ward.
A film on the importance of photographic reconnaissance. A U.S. Navy pilot plays table tennis with other man. A friend of the pilot arrives and says that they would be going to Korea together for a mission. A Grumman F9F Panther aircraft takes off from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. A crew seated in a briefing room. An officer briefs them. The pilot is not sent to the mission. Men standing along the sides of the aircraft carrier. Another F9F aircraft takes off from the carrier. The pilot looks at the aircraft. The aircraft flying in formation.
United States F-86 Sabre fighter jets down Soviet MiG 15 aircraft in Korean War aerial dogfight. U.S. and Soviet planes in flight. Aerial view of ground below. Sabre fires machine gun. A Sabre blasts a Mig in flight. The Mig in flames descends to the ground. Another Mig is hit and downed.
U.S. soldiers advance at Old Baldy, one of the strategic points on the invasion route to Seoul. Explosions on hills. Smoke from artillery fire. Soldiers behind barricades. Soldiers on tanks advance. Military vehicles stuck in muddy roads. Soldiers try to pull them out with the help of other vehicles. Military convoy on the road. Soldiers take a Chinese prisoner. U.S. soldiers eat and drink. Explosions on hills.