United States Combat activities during Korean War in South Korea. A United States Army jeep drives on a muddy road. Truck splashes water from road. Soldiers pull artillery by rope. They clean barrel of artillery. Shells placed on ground. Mud filled feet of soldiers. C-119 Flying Boxcar Transport aircraft drop parachute and ammunition supply to advancing forces.
North Korean woman soldier. Korean War negotiator, for Korean Peoples Army, Lieutenant General Nam Il, enters building.North Koreans in vicinity of building. Exteriors of the building where meetings took place. Korean soldier sits on pavement, his mess kit and belt beside him, reading a book. American and Korean negotiators and staff personnel relaxing outdoors. North Korean negotiators leave in army jeeps. Numerous cameramen take pictures of UN Command negotiating team led by Commander of U.S. Naval Forces, Far East, Admiral C. Turner Joy . Men arrange tables for negotiators. North Korean and Chinese flags on one of the tables. Negotiating staffs relaxing in garden. A young Korean girl walks across a bridge.An American soldier gives her candy and she bows. She runs to several other American soldiers, with her hands cupped and receives candy. Girl stands in grass. American trucks lined up on road. Helicopter overhead.
United Nations forces retreat through snow as Chinese Communist troops enter Korean War in late 1950. An animated map of Korea shows Chinese forces overtaking North Korea. U.S. Marines marching in retreat from Chosin Reservoir region while artillery fires at enemy. Troops in sleeping bags covered in snow. Wounded loaded in small planes that take off from a field marked with a sign reading, 'Panicky Pocket Air Strip' View of retreating civilians and refugees moving south including many North Korean families with small children. Marines are evacuated from Hungnam. Civilians are transported in trucks with their belongings. General Ridgeway is shown sitting in a jeep after taking command of forces in Korea. A map highlighting Hungnam. Views of Security Council meeting. Shots of soldiers from many countries, including Belgium, Turkey, Greece, Taiwan, Philippines, Australia, and Canada. A sign marked with '25th Canadian Infantry Brigade'.
Tanks and infantry cross 38th parallel, the pre-Korean War boundary between North Korea and South Korea. Tank Infantry team assault team meets for briefing. Close up of American soldier faces beside tank. Box of grenades is distributed by African American and white soldiers. U.S. Army 3rd Division Infantry soldiers mount tanks in morning, again including black and white soldiers. Point of view shot from moving tank, out past main gun as group advances. Tanks and infantry cross the Imjin River bed where it is shallow near the 38th parallel crossing. Views of abandoned North Korean military vehicles in the river bed. Group dismounts from tanks onto enemy territory. Patrol advances up hillsides and across fields. They engage North Korean enemy using rifles and grenades. Explosions seen during combat. Officer speaking on radio. U.S. soldiers continue advance and encounter small arms enemy fire and mortar fire, slowing them down. View as they walk on patrol, and prone and kneeling as they fire at North Korean forces near a railroad line. Point of view immediately behind a U.S. soldier as he stands and throws a grenade, and then ducks again. Group returning to base after conclusion of reconnaissance in force mission.
'UN Forces escape trap' about the United Nations forces during the Korean War. A map of Manchuria shows the position of United Nations troops along the Manchurian border. Position of the UN forces as the Chinese Red Army drived them away from the border. UN troops along the38th Parallel. United States 7th Infantry Division troops move up snow covered mountains along the Chinese and North Korean border. Supporting planes strafe the snow covered hills. A view of the frozen Yalu river along the border in North Korea.
Opening scene shows a sign identifying the 38th Parallel separating North from South Korea. Refugees with their few belongings walk from North Korea to South Korea. A U.S. Patton tank is seen next, followed by another. Closeup of treads on a Patton tank, raising dust as it passes. Another Patton heading toward the camera, with a crewman waving. A Cessna L-19 Bird Dog, aircraft, marked with three stars, arrives, carrying the new Commander of the Eight Army, Lieutenant General James Van Fleet. He climbs out of the airplane and shakes hands with a Brigadier General. Standing behind him is Air Force Lieutenant General Earle E. Partridge, commander of the 5th Air Force. A jeep carrying General Van Fleet turns in from a dirt road. A sign reads "56th Regiment, Message Center." Lieutenant General Van Fleet, climbs out of the front right seat of the jeep. He is wearing a pair of pearl handled side arms. U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Partridge is seated in the back seat of the jeep and jumps out behind Van Fleet. View of explosion in distant hills, part of the initial barrage in advance of the next United Nations offensive. Sounds of aircraft and artillery are heard. American infantry are seen moving forward. Narrator notes that numerous Chinese troops were in the hills around the Chosin reservoir and they were committed in vast numbers against the UN forces. UN infantry in Korean War moving through forests and mist. Large numbers of Chinese prisoners of war are seen walking along a dirt road.