Group of Chinese prisoners in bad physical shape at the Chosin Reservoir. Faces of the Chinese prisoners. A prisoner pours something out of a can into his hand which he puts to his mouth. A U.S. Marine gives a prisoner a drink of water. The prisoner's frozen hands. A prisoner who was captured barefooted. His feet are frozen solid with ice around the bottom of trousers. A prisoner smoking a cigarette.
U.S. Marines retreat in the Chosin Reservoir, Korea. Marines help wounded comrades to a U.S. plane. Plane taxis on airstrip. Marines run towards a Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber which has crash-landed. The plane tilted on its nose. Marines around the plane.
United Nation Forces retreat during the Korean War following the Red Chinese aggression. Entrapped United States 1st Marine Division men reach Hamhung, Korea. Soldiers loaded in trucks as they come to Hamhung from Chosin Reservoir. A Chinese prisoners with a solid ice sheet around his feet. United Nation forces being evacuated from Hungnam. Military trucks and vehicles being loaded aboard Landing Ship Tanks and ships. Litter wounded being transferred onto landing crafts. Troops aboard the landing crafts. Troops being transferred onto a ship from the crafts. U.S. Major General Smith and soldiers at a grave yard during a burial as a man blows a bugle. Soldiers lined up as they pay their last respects to the dead.
Airplanes dropping napalm (a flammable liquid) on hills, during the Battle of Chosin. A battleship in sea, planes take off from a carrier. Aerial views of a bomb raid. Civilian refugees and soldiers march in snow and wind on a mountainous highway in Korea.
An African American soldier washing kit in stream of water. A group of soldiers in front of M-46 tank, snow falling. A soldier on telephone. Soldiers moving forward followed by Korean refugees with household goods. Views of animated maps of Korea, showing location and progress of struggle. Soldiers marching forward, truck and jeeps around curve on mountain. Jeep and men moving forward over snow covered road.
U.S. Marine convoy arrives at the Chosin Reservoir. Marines in truck at the road side wave and smile. The truck convoy. Marines jammed in the military vehicles. Tanks and jeeps in the convoy. Marines wave as they pass.