Focuses on Korean War (1950-1953). A sign on tree reads '8 Ball Express Built 1492 Rebuilt 1950'. U.S. army vehicles pass on pontoon bridge built across Naktong tributary. Sign on bridge reads 'Cross By Courtesy of C Co 8th ENGR C BN'. South Korean laborers wade through river. They are employed to construct bridge. Heavy construction equipment, bulldozers and cranes at construction site.
Focuses on Korean War (1950-1953). HMS Unicorn arrives into Pusan harbor. U.S. troops give salute to British troops on deck of HMS Unicorn. Crowd awaits arrival of British troops. British officer greeted by South Korean officer. British troops march along dock. British troops arrive in battleship. Guns mounted on ship. British troops followed by pipe band disembark from ship. British officers presented with bouquet.
Focuses on Korean War (1950-1953). U.S. personnel load C-47 aircraft with boxes containing leaflets. These leaflets are to be dropped over North Korean territories to counter enemy propaganda. Boxes stacked aboard C-47. Headline on leaflet reads 'SAFE CONDUCT PASS'. Men drop packets from aircraft in flight over North Korean territories.
Focuses on Korean War (1950-1953). U.S. personnel around F4U Corsair airplanes parked on flight deck of carrier. Rockets transferred on deck. Words written on bomb read 'Listen To This! It Will Kill You'. Men manning aircraft. Planes with folded wings warm up on flight deck. Rockets under wings of planes. Man signals plane for take off. Planes taxi for take off. Gun camera sighting point shows targets on ground attacked. Carrier aircraft strafing run over enemy positions.
Focuses on Korean War (1950-1953). Marines and U.S. seventh division advance in Seoul under enemy fire. U.S. troops combat enemy in streets of Seoul. Troops take cover behind sand sacks. Troops fire rifles. Tanks advance through heavy smoke in streets. Smoke arises from explosions. Soldiers relax after five days battle with enemy. Soldier talks into radio. Soldier holds a paper cutting. Headlines read 'Marines enter Seoul, Fight Reds In Streets'.
Speaking before United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) in its first meeting in June 1946, Bernard Baruch proposes international control of all atomic energy -- the so-called Baruch Plan. Low level aerial view of ruined post World War 2 European city. Goods including heavy equipment, locomotives, being loaded aboard ships to aid in the postwar recovery of Europe (The Marshall Plan). Workers in Western Europe making use of Marshall Plan materials to rebuild their national infrastructures. West European farmers restoring agriculture. View from overflying light airplane of parts of postwar Berlin in 1948. Blocked roads and empty railroad tracks leading from East Germany to West Germany, blocked by the Soviet Union. Barge traffic at standstill due to Soviet actions. U.S. C-54 transport aircraft flying supplies into West Berlin (The Berlin Airlift) during the Soviet blockade of that city. West Berlin citizens watching U.S. transport aircraft bringing fuel, food and other essentials into the isolated city. A C-54 flying low over empty railroad lines, as it prepares to land in West Berlin. Supplies offloaded from a DC-3 ( AKA C-47 or British Dakota) equipped with unusual set of rear cargo doors. Supplies being moved on Tegel Airport with many C-54 aircraft in the background. Numerous C-47 aircraft operating at Tempelhof airport. An East German official opening a barricade as Soviet blockade of West Berlin ends on May 12, 1949, and supply trucks begin to move over roads again. Flags of Western nations flying on high flagpoles. Glimpse of Allied warships underway during the Cold War. Formation of P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight overhead. NATO troops marching and NATO armor on parade. Flashes of heavy artillery firing at night. Korean refugees moving South in 1950 with the outbreak of the Korean War. View of UN Security Council meeting in the absence of Soviet representative. U.S. tanks firing guns and American infantrymen in conflict with North Korea in Korean War. American wounded on stretchers.Delegates of both North and South Korea signing the Korean Armistice Agreement in P'anmunjŏm, on July 27, 1953. A rocket is launched. Images of earth from inside a space craft in orbit. Narrator mentions the first satellite to circle the earth, the soviet Sputnik 1 in 1957. View of Soviet pilots in low pressure altitude chamber. A test subject in an aircraft making a maneuver that allows him to experience "weightlessness." Objects in his cockpit float about. A military rocket launch monitored by arrays of radar. An object being retrieved from space by means of a parachute. A nuclear powered submarine. Rockets on display during a military parade in Red Square, Moscow, the Soviet Union. A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber taxiing. More views of rockets seen during a Soviet military parade in Red Square, Moscow.