Gun camera footage of aircraft from 8th Fighter Command iloted by Lieutenant Colonel Rimerman of 352nd Squadron, attacking German enemy targets. Rimerman's aircraft makes several passes over a train and strafes the cars. Multiple explosions seen along with smoke. Aircraft targets and hits a lone truck on a road, and then is seen strafing various motor vehicles and trucks along several sections of roadway.
Gun camera footage from a P-51D fighter plane of the USAAF 357th Fighter Group, 364th Fighter Squadron, stationed at RAF Leiston. This one is being flown by Lieutenant Dale E. Karger on 5 December, 1944. Camera shows Karger's aircraft tracking and firing at a German Focke Wulf Fw-190 aircraft flying below him. His rounds strike the FW-190 and it bursts into flames and falls toward the ground. (Note: This shows one of two Fw-190s Karger shot down this day. They were his first aerial victories. He went on to finish his tour with credit for 7.5 downed German aircraft.)
Japanese prisoners aboard a U.S. ship off the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan. A vehicle burns on a beach in the background. Captured Japanese prisoners in a LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) alongside a transport ship. Prisoners being guarded by U.S. Marines. Japanese prisoners on decks of ship being guarded. Prisoners in Navy dungarees stand about on decks of the ship.
Evacuation of Hungnam involving the safe withdrawal of the bulk of UN forces in eastern North Korea. Korean refugees disembarking from boats, near a U.S. Landing Ship Tank (LST). They line up along the shore, where many others are already gathered. Another larger boat approaches, filled with more refugees. An adjacent boat displays the Republic of Korea flag. View from deck of the LST, through front loading doors, as a U.S. Marine Corps M-5H-6 International Harvester 2 1/2 Ton 6x6 Cargo Truck drives aboard. It slowly climbs the LST ramp. Scene shifts to deck of the LST Where a truck pulling an air compressor, arrives at top of ramp to join other trucks parked on deck. View downward from LST deck where more trucks are driving onto the ship's ramp. A stack of 55 gallon steel drums is seen on shore. More boats arrive carrying refugees. Those on shore move slowly aboard the LST. Many are seen lining the railings of the ship's deck.
Retired Major General Bennett Meyers, testifying before the Senate Committee investigating wartime arms contracts (Brewster Committee). He answers questions about his involvement with Howard Hughes and Neil McCarthy. He answers questions about his purchase of millions of dollars in bonds.
Propaganda film made by North Korea. American soldiers, on sightseeing tours, and at rodeo. Public building in Seoul. Unemployed Koreans gambling and loafing in Bagado park, Seoul. Korean fortune teller in park. Market place in Seoul. Korean people looking at Japanese goods being sold. Slum sections of Seoul. Korean inspector searching private home. Sign on door "Contagious Disease". Sick children lying in streets. Sign "Give Us Rice". Idle factories. Wrecked factory equipment. American soldiers and Korean girls dancing and drinking in night clubs. Wild Korean Jazz band. Flashing night club signs. Night scene of Korean placing sign on wall that the Russians and Americans should leave Korea. Korean police walking threateningly toward the Korean. Atrocities committed by the South Koreans: Tortures and beating in cellars, dragging men and women behind trucks, hanging of many men and women at the Song Ack mountain in Kai Sung. Corpses lying on ground after being cut down from the trees. Men, women and children with hands tied behind their backs lying in shallow graves. Communists in South Korea revolting and killing police
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