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.
U.S. Army MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) at K-51 Inje Airfield in South Korea during the Korean War. Interiors of MASH operating room in a hut. U.S. Marine Corps 1st Medical Battalion surgeons and assistants work on a patient. Men operate on the patient.
U.S. Army MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) at K-51 Inje Airfield in South Korea during the Korean War. A vehicle approaches an MP (Military Police) sentry-box along a road. An MP talks to a driver and the ambulance is allowed to proceed. View from the ambulance as it proceeds along a road on the mountainside. Korean maintenance workers stand at the side of the road. Another ambulance and vehicles coming in the opposite direction. The ambulance comes to an area studded with tents. A litter jeep and an ambulance come down a road. The jeep pulls ahead and stops. Ambulances pull up behind. U.S. Marine Corps 1st Medical Battalion Major Arbin T. Henderson walks back to an ambulance and talks to its driver. The ambulance goes past the jeep and pulls into a muddy and flooded hospital yard.
U.S. Army MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) at K-51 Inje Airfield in South Korea during the Korean War. Interiors of a surgical tent shows U.S. Marine Corps 1st Medical Battalion surgeons putting a mask over a wounded soldier's face to administer anesthesia, and work during a surgical operation. The doctors pass clamps and scissors during the surgery operation.
U.S. Army MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) at K-51 Inje Airfield in South Korea during the Korean War. Litter jeeps of U.S. Marine Corps 1st Medical Battalion come and stop near hospital tents. A sign reads 'United States Naval Medical Center'. One U.S. soldier buttons up his coat as he talks with another soldier. A sign at a medical center reads 'Medical D Co.' . Ambulances pull up. Litter bearers start to carry a man on a litter to a tent.
Scenes inside makeshift shelter.American soldiers drinking and relaxing. United States soldiers try to make some practical use of a wooden shipping container. Debris and bombed out buildings all around the soldiers.