A-4 missile on launch pad at Peenemunde Rocket Test Center in Ostvorpommern, Germany, during World War 2. Missile is between service towers. Rocket ignites and flames are reflected from ground. Moments later, the rocket burns fully and the missile begins ascent, accelerating, rapidly. It soars straight up through clouds, overhead, and generates a vapor trail.
A-4 missile on launch pad at Peenemunde Rocket Centre in Ostvorpommern, Germany, during World War 2. Missile launches into the sky. Launch pad is surrounded by trees. Views of missile in air. Missile generates vapor trail in the sky.
Film opens with montage of rapid images illustrating the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe. Appeals from the Allied powers are described. Shown is a field full of American Martin B-26 bombers ready for shipment abroad. View of men working in a construction site. Towers holding high tension electric supply lines are seen. Products needing electric power for production, such as aluminum and magnesium are shown as ingots in production facilities. View of the Columbia River waters surging along its course. Views of the Bonneville Dam and power plant, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Giant electric generators operating in the hydroelectric plants. Technicians in power plant control rooms, and views of transmission lines and switch yards outside a power plant. A ship under construction at a wartime shipyard. Workers using electric arc welders during ship construction. View of the SS Mormacwren launched 22 May 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation's Wilmington, California yard. Launch on May 22, 1942, of the ship, Irving S. Olds, a Bulk Freighter built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio. (Her launch was coordinated with those of numerous other ocean cargo vessels in yards around the United States, to bolster the national morale, when German submarines were sinking many ships in the Atlantic.) Next, a ladle of molten aluminum, to be used in aircraft manufacture, is seen pouring its contents into ingot molds. Workers dislodge the ingots after cooling. Inside an aircraft plant, men assemble aircraft parts from aluminum. A partially completed medium bomber is towed outside the plant. View of Grand Coulee Dam and of many electrical distribution facilities. Herds of sheep moving across the Grand Coulee Dam to new pastures.
Animated map shows South Korea, from 38th parallel, South, and highlights Pusan, and the advances being made by UN forces after being reinforced. Next, the UN amphibious landings at Inchon (or Incheon) are shown on the map. Flashes of naval gunfire are seen in the blackness of night. Next, a Landing Craft Tank (Rocket), LCT(R), is seen firing barrages of rockets toward shore, at Inchon. On September 15, 1950, U.S. troops are seen landing at Incheon, from boats of the attack transport ship, USS Noble (APA-218). Return to the animated map shows advance of UN forces from Inchon joining with those advancing from Pusan, until they occupy most of the area south of the 38th parallel. UN infantry are seen engaged in urban combat in the city of Seoul, accompanied by M26 Pershing tanks and M46 Patton tanks. Building burning in the city. UN soldiers firing rifles inside damaged building. American soldiers, under fire, carrying wounded on litter. Medical corpsmen tending to casualties, including wounded Korean civilians. Republic of Korea (ROK) infantry following four of their soldiers carrying their flag, stretched out horizonally, between them. (Narrator states they are carrying it back to the liberated capital of Seoul.) ROK troops escorting large number of prisoners of war, marching with hands on heads. UN forces distributing rice and clothing to the Korean inhabitants of Seoul. Soldiers helping little Korean children don clothing. Bodies of men, women, and children who were slain by retreating enemy troops, are laid out on the ground, attended by Grieving relatives. Large quantities of captured North Korean weapons are piled up, including those made in the Soviet Union.
United Nations forces retreat through snow as Chinese Communist troops enter Korean War in late 1950. An animated map of Korea shows Chinese forces overtaking North Korea. U.S. Marines marching in retreat from Chosin Reservoir region while artillery fires at enemy. Troops in sleeping bags covered in snow. Wounded loaded in small planes that take off from a field marked with a sign reading, 'Panicky Pocket Air Strip' View of retreating civilians and refugees moving south including many North Korean families with small children. Marines are evacuated from Hungnam. Civilians are transported in trucks with their belongings. General Ridgeway is shown sitting in a jeep after taking command of forces in Korea. A map highlighting Hungnam. Views of Security Council meeting. Shots of soldiers from many countries, including Belgium, Turkey, Greece, Taiwan, Philippines, Australia, and Canada. A sign marked with '25th Canadian Infantry Brigade'.
U.S. Airborne Operation Tomahawk to drop paratroopers near the 38th parallel in Korea, during the Korean War. Officer checks chutes of his paratroopers before boarding aircraft. Paratrooper soldiers of 187th Regimental Combat Team Loading weapons and equipment into the rear of the C-119s. An Aircraft commander briefing his C-119 crew, before departure. Crew member boarding a C-119. Scene shifts to view from an in flight, of C-119 formation set up over Taegu and proceeding to jump area. Below, smoke rises from prior bombardment by fighters and bombers, at the jump area, 10 miles South of the 38th parallel. The Paratroopers begin jumping from the C-119s, at 800 ft. altitude, in Sticks of 42 men each, over rice paddies and rolling terrain. Air below, filled with open parachutes, as seen from camera aircraft. Next jeeps and trailers are seen being released from open cargo bay doors in flight, pulled by billowing chutes out of the rear door of a C-119 aircraft, and parachuting to the ground. More views of chutes descending and troopers organizing on the ground. Views of armor from the U.S. Army 24th Infantry Division linking up with the paratroopers, as they begin moving to set up their defensive positions.
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