A convoy of American military trucks led by a jeep arrives at the Stand Down Center. Soldiers 1st Infantry Division of United States Army load their barrack bags and weapons onto truck. Soldiers board and get off truck. Truck convoy loaded with soldiers move away.
Camera pans over a closeup of British Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival who was captured in the fall of Singapore. American Lieutenant-general Jonathan Wainwright, smoking the stub of a cigar, as he sits with U.S.Major General Edward P. King, Jr. (Both were imprisoned in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.) A naval officer POW posing in front of a tree. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, in pith helmet, smoking a cigarette. POWs eating and conversing with Japanese interpreters, (One POW appears to be U.S. Brigadier General George F. Moore, who was imprisoned along with Wainright and King, in the Philippines.) View of POWs in a library, where one is reading from a script, while being recorded. Other POWs looking at documents.
Puerto Rican soldiers being taught English as a part of their indoctrination course at a military camp in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican soldiers train in real battle conditions to take their position in ranks of Americas fighting men in Korea. Soldiers practice firing with machine guns as bullets whistle over their heads. The newest military unit prepares to serve United Nations.
German test launch of a A-4/V-2 missile, from a wooded site, at the Heidelager testing range near Blizna, Poland. The Missile moves upwards, emitting fire and smoke from its tail, and then heads downrange, with the fire in its tail visible throughout the entire clip.
Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman, in his speech in Washington DC criticizes the fresh aggression in Korea. He declares that United States with its allies under the flag of United Nations will work towards the cause of building a free world. He declares that their policy is to deter aggression.
Members of United Nations Security Council meet in New York to discuss on Chinese arms invasion on Taiwan and aggression against the Republic of Korea. Meetings agenda is put before the members and discussion takes place as members of various countries listen with their headphones on and take down notes. Representatives of Norway, United States, Britain, Egypt, Yugoslavia and other countries take part in the meeting
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