Arrival of Admiral Charles Turner Joy, United States Navy, at Yonpo Air Base in Korea shortly before evacuation of Yonpo in the face of Chinese offensive. Admiral Joy chatting with Admiral Doyle. Another officer standing with the Admirals. Admiral Joy meets his son, 1st Lt Duncan Joy, USAF. The Admiral talking to his son. Joy and his son enter a military jeep and leave. Cars and planes parked on the snow-covered airstrip.
U.S. Marines arrive in Korea. Trucks arrive with men and equipment, including a road grader. Men stand at side of road and cheer as the convoy passes. Marine convoy moving along road. Mountains which contain the Chosin Reservoir in the background. Men in truck at road side wave and smile.
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.
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.
American singer, comedian and actor Al Jolson entertains patients and members of the hospital staff at Tokyo General Hospital. Patients and staff seated on the lawn. Jolson stands at the microphone and performs his act. Man plays piano in the background. Convalescents seated on lawn and on balconies. Soldiers in wheel chairs, and the staff applaud. People click photographs.
Wounded U.S. soldiers evacuated in Tokyo. Wounded on stretchers being removed from a United States Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster aircraft. They are placed in military ambulances. Patients in the vehicle. Several medics get into the ambulances, doors are closed. Military bus ambulance pulling out with patients. Two soldiers lift a stretcher with a wounded man. He is carried to the ramp. Two soldiers carry a wounded man on stretcher along the ramp
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