United Nations troops face the Spring offensive during the Korean War. UN combat team soldiers comprised of British, Belgian, Filipino, and American troops quickly break their camp in the Imjin River area. A soldier hastily finishes his meal. UN soldiers standing in a fox hole with rifles resting atop boxes and looking out at enemy lines. Mortars being fired by UN forces at the enemy Chinese forces. A UN Military trucks burns after being hit by an enemy shell. UN convoy of trucks and tanks on a retreat halts and is seen as it takes cover due to heavy firing from machine gun and mortar fire in the hills. UN convoy resumes the advance. British and Belgian battalion commanders discuss plans. Convoy rolls through Uijongbu. Tired and weary U.S. Army infantrymen advance and wade through a rice fields and streams after heavy battle the day before. In rainy conditions, soldiers hold rear guard position and U.S. Army 155mm howitzers being fired at the enemy in Uijongbu. UN military vehicles cross a bridge. Soldiers pour gasoline over a TNT (Trinitrotoluene) mined bridge. They set the gas on fire and run toward the camera position. Bridge explodes and smoke rises.
English pilot Amy Johnson returns after setting a record time of a two-way flight from London to Cape Town. An aircraft in flight. People on top of a building. Aircraft piloted by Amy Johnson, an ace aviator, lands and taxis along in London Croydon Airport (Airport House, Purley Way, Croydon, CR0 0XZ). People gathered around the plane. Johnson gets off the plane and receives a warm welcome after a two-way flight from London to Cape Town in 4 days and 16 hours. Amy being presented flowers. A man clicks a picture. Amy Johnson waves to the crowd.
Quadruplets start their schooling in Beaumont, Texas. Perricone quadruplet boys in identical outfits and holding their packed lunch seen at doorsteps with their mother. The Perricone children, Anthony, Carl, Bernard, and Donald pose and smile. The children during a class at the school as they read their books. They play. Their school building in the background, inscribed "South Park School" over the doorway. A hand holds a clock. The quadruplets tucked in a bed together at the end of the day.
American prisoners of war being interviewed at a Japanese prison camp in Honshu, Japan after World War II. A U.S. officer interviews a medical officer who has been liberated from a Japanese prison camp. The medic says that he is from San Antonio, Texas. He talks about his early days. He says that he came to the Philippines on November 3, 1940. He discusses the difficulties faced by the medical officers at the prison camp. He narrates an incident where a soldier developed an infection in his foot and he lost nearly 20-30 kilos of weight. The medical officer also talks about the scarcity of medical supplies at the prison camp. He states that many men died due to malnutrition at the camp.
United States prisoners after being released from a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines during World War II. American soldiers after being released from the Japanese prison camp. The soldiers loaded in carts. Trucks outside a building. A crippled soldier. The soldiers lying in beds. Two American prisoners introduce themselves and share their experiences about their life at the Japanese prison camp. The first soldier talks about the Bataan Death March to San Fernando from where the prisoners were taken to a prison camp. He says that the captured soldiers were made to march to San Fernando for 3 days and 3 nights and that the prisoners were not provided any food or water. He says that nearly 150 men out of 800 lost their lives during the march. Sergeant Daniel Smith narrates how the Japanese tortured the American soldiers at the prison camp.
Various courses at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Antioch College building. A farm in a countryside and a busy street in a town. Arthur Morgan who introduced the work-study program which aims at making education meaningful. Students and their personal faculty advisers discuss job opportunities. The students circulate between work and job four times a year. Two students hold a job alternately. The students of the college work as typists, accountants to ensure inter penetration of business in their lives. Low angle camera view of college student at busy roadside waiting for bus, as 1940's cars and other vehicles race by. Various accounting and clerical jobs and mechanical machines including typewriters, paper, and money counting devices. A sign on a board reads ' Dollar Day'. A student works in a clothing store in New York. Girls seated around a table on a New York City high rise or skyscraper building rooftop after their work shift, smoking and relaxing. Feet of a girl as she rests them. View of sculpture and fountain at Rockefeller Center. A student of Antioch College works in a NBC broadcast studio as a guide, and he is shown giving a tour to visitors who want to learn about radio broadcasting. The students work in consumer co-operatives, publishing company. A student works as an executive in a stationery concern in Massachusetts. The students work in a newspaper establishment, where reporters and journalists are shown working on stories in a newsroom. A student looking after a police beat interviews a police officer. Students also take up jobs in the field of social sciences as they study change of thought in the society and the circumstances and events that lead to poverty and crime.
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