B-17s of the U.S. 91st Bombardment Group, returning to their home base at RAF Station Bassingbourn following a bombing mission,in World War 2. B-17, tail number 41-24617, named "Southern Comfort," taxiing on outboard engines, only, after landing with a large chunk of its rudder shot away. Crew members and other airmen gather around the battle-damaged aircraft. Closeups of the damage to its rudder. Dim views of the B-17, "Memphis Belle," tail number 41-24485, with skin missing from wing exposing its internal ribs. It also has holes in its rudder and its nose. Closeup of a B-17 engine stained by fire-fighting foam. Other views of battle damage to a B-17.
Opening scene shows Major General Robert H. Soule, Commander of the Third Infantry Division, in Korea, speaking to a soldier, from a a jeep. His jeep moves past a U.S. tank. A U.S. Chaffee tank (named "Belle") drives past the camera. (Narrator notes that the enemy opened the gates of the Chowan Reservoir to flood the area, after U.S. forces secured the southern edge of the "Iron Triangle".) Two Patton tanks are seen at water's edge. Another is making way through the water. Three U.S. soldiers atop a hill. One looks through a pair of binoculars. U.S. infantry walking downhill beside a dry culvert. One examines an area of straw, that might hide enemy soldiers. He throws a grenade into it, that explodes raising smoke and noise. UN forces moving easily across roads and paths in the valley. (Narrator notes that in the meantime enemy forces infiltrated into the surrounding hills and then attacked with ferocity.) UN forces firing a 155 mm long tom howitzer to counter the enemy. Artillery barrages continuing through the night. U.S. troops firing 105mm howitzers, and a 60mm light field mortar. More views of various pieces of artillery being fired by crews of African American and white U.S. Army soldiers. Smoke rising from the surrounding hills as artillery shells explode.
Landmarks and activities of people in Manila, Philippines before World War II. Aerial view of the city. Buildings and houses along the sides of a street. Mountains in the background. Towers of San Agustin Church in Intramuros and the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila. Cyclists, horse-drawn kalesas, and pedestrians on a street in Quiapo district. The towers of San Sebastian Church. Filipino civilians attend a Roman Catholic mass. A plaque reads “Roman Catholic Cathedral of Manila”. Nuns and civilians walking outside a church in Manila. Old Filipino woman shielding herself with a fan. A Filipino woman holding her son. Church bells ring. Monuments in Manila. Bonifacio Monument or Monumento (596 Monumento Rotonda, Caloocan, 1401 Metro Manila) in Caloocan, Philippines. People on the streets around the Rizal Monument (1225 Roxas Blvd, Ermita, Manila, 1000 Metro Manila).
The invasion of the Philippines by Japanese troops during World War II. Captured United States soldiers posing in front of a Jeep. Airplanes fly in formation. Occupying Japanese soldiers in front of a Catholic church with destroyed bell tower in Central Luzon. Horses, carts, and cars on roadside. U.S. Army Major General Edward P. King attends a surrender conference. The Major General seated with other officials and signs an agreement.
Narrator, actor Raymond Massey, sitting at a desk, covered with models of intercepter missiles, discusses the role played by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and its subsidiaries, Bell telephone, and Western Electric, in creating the communications undergirding the North American Air Defense System. Scene shifts to arctic and view of a Dew Line site in the snow. A Pacific Western DC-3 airplane lands on snow runway, and a ship moves through icy waters, both carrying personnel and equipment for construction of the polar early warning system. A tractor hauls cargo for the project over snowy terrain. Supplies being air-dropped from a commercial C-82 Packet aircraft. Aerial view of a depot filled with supples for the DEW line project. Carpenters and other construction workers employed on the project in severe cold and windy conditions. A man making his way toward a wooden building, during a blizzard. Men installing tall steel towers at a DEW line site on a sunny day in summer. Exterior panels being placed on the geodesic dome covering a DEW line radar antenna.
The steamer Mark Twain underway on the Mississippi river in the United States. The stern wheel of a steamboat operates. The steamer Mark Twain underway on the river. A man aboard the steam ship, smoking cigar. Smoke rise from the ship stacks. The bell on the steamer. A man at the controls of the steamer.
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