United States Marines walk through a Korean village. Vehicles and Marines with weapons slung over their shoulders advance along roads. Mountains in the background. Marine dungarees fly on a flagpole. Marines in wooden hut and several marines rest along a road. Marine talks to a foreign soldier. Marines on a truck move behind a barbed wire fence. Trucks parked on the sides of road. Marines in a dug out. Clothes hang on wires. Marines look over motor of jeep and 32 Caliber automatic. Korean civilian sorts out clothes in yard. A sign reads ' Restricted area, keep out'. Koreans sit in a yard. Marines with weapon stand around.
On Feb. 12 and 13, 1951, elements of the U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Division, including 38th Infantry Regiment, suffered severe losses in combat with superior Chinese forces, near Hoengsong,during the Korean War. Photos shot three weeks later show the carnage on a frozen battleground. Remnants of a destroyed U.S. field piece are surrounded by dead U.S. Army soldiers frozen on snow-covered ground. A severely damaged U.S. halftrack sits in the dirt. An unidentified jumble of burned out war machinery. Damaged 20mm dual mount anti-aircraft guns. U.S. Marines, of the 7th Regiment, in full field gear, entering the area for the first time since the February battle. They march over a snow-covered road, past remnants of the U.S. Army convoy that was fighting its way out of the area besieged by Chinese forces on all sides. A destroyed U.S. Army truck. Sign next to wreckage reads:"38th I.FL Co CP." A dead American soldier frozen in a rice paddy. Smoke rising from Korean village buildings burning in background, above terraced landscape. More views of wrecked equipment and fallen soldiers. A mountain pass in the background. A destroyed truck. Suddenly black smoke starts rising in the background. A U.S. Marine standing near an M46 Patton tank. More debris and destroyed trucks.
Two United States Military Police (MP) men with weapons in sling arms in Korea. They stand by the side of a road. MPs come out of the tents. MPs talk with the U.S. Marines. MPs get into a jeep. A South Korean translator speaks into a microphone so that his voice is carried to a village. Mountains in the background. (Korean War)
Psychological Warfare Unit visiting Korean village in valley with several buildings and a circling dirt road. It is surrounded by mountains. A Korean Marine (interpreter) uses a microphone to call out to residents. next, a Marine of the U.S. 1st Marine Division, is seen nearby, talking to another Korean Marine. A U.S. rifleman stands guard. Two Korean men come forward and approach a cluster of Marines. The older, bearded man speaks to an interpreter. Scene shifts to a tall young man with another man accompanied by two women and a boy. More family members join them. Interpreters speak with them. More women and children come forward including two women carrying South Korean flags of the Republic of korea. One of the men coming with families, is missing his right leg, and uses crutches. The people converse in earnest with the Korean Marine interpreter. Two Korean Marines silhouetted against light sky as one reads announcement to the villagers. (Korean War)
United States Marines at a forest area in Korea. They stand in line. U.S. Marines pass ammunition and supplies up the mountain side. They pass the supplies by hand. Trees in the background. (Korean War)
United States troops in combat gear in Korea, during Korean War. Members of Able & Baker Company, 1st Battalion and 1st Marine Division move up in the rainy weather. Troops move along the muddy road. Marine carries tripod to a machine gun. Several Marines have put on parkas. First aid administered to a wounded man. A jeep tows a trailer. Wounded man in stretcher on the hood of a jeep. Troops lie on bank of road in prone position. Some troops fire. Jeep passes by. Napalm bomb explodes on Hill 166. Troops move on the road.
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