Sir Alan Brooke gets off plane accompanied by Lt Gen Gairdener and several other British officers at Kimpo Airfield, Korea. 'KP230' written on the plane. Lt Gen John R Hodge greets Brooke and party. Brooke gets into the car and leaves.
U.S. Air Force airlift operations in Korea during the Korean War. Interior of a C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft shows pilot of 437th Troop Carrier Wing, Lieutenant Colonel Howard T. Markey, talking to the co-pilot, Captain Vernon J. Mouton. The Lt. Col. and the Captain sitting at the controls of the plane in flight check over the instrument panel and talk about the same. The C-54 in flight. It approaches Kimpo Airfield for landing.
U.S. Air Force airlift operations in Korea during the Korean War. Interior of a C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft shows the crew getting on the aircraft prior to take off from Kimpo Airfield near Seoul. The radio operator of Command Post 1, Norman Bass ; Lieutenant Ernest Amerine and crew-chief technical sergeant Thomas G. Cooper. The interior of the plane shows T/Sergeant checking the cargo. The crew walks down a ladder. A truck backs up towards the C-54. Korean native laborers get off the truck and unload artillery shell cases from the plane into the truck. Several views of airmen and Koreans unloading the artillery shells. Combat troops walk up a step ladder into the door of the C-54. All the men are carrying carbines.
The United Nation forces in Korean War. United States troops and tanks withdraw through Seoul, Korea. Korean orphans being evacuated from Kimpo air base by United states U.S. Air Force C-54 aircraft
Operation Little Switch in which released POW are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Tachikawa, Tokyo, and then on to the United States during repatriation of former prisoners late in the Korean War. The released POW (Prisoners Of War) eating food that will probably be the last meal there before leaving Korea. Food items kept in a shelf and on a table. A cook severs food in bowls to U.S. soldiers. Injured or former POW seated on a bed eating a bite of chicken is A/2C Robert L. Weinbrandt of El Cajon, California, a B-29 Super Fortress tail gunner captured after his plane was shot down the night of January 28-29, 1953. A wounded POW drinks soup and eats food kept on his bed. Liberated former prisoners drinking. Another former prisoner eating food.
Soviet military forces in massed formations at Red Square, in Moscow, Russia. Joseph Stalin stands on balcony above. Scenes of rebellion in Europe and Asia. A map of Korea. June 25, 1950, as Korean War war broke out between North and South Korea. Buildings burning. Refugees fleeing. View of United Nations building on East River in New York City, where American ambassador Warren Austin is speaking. View of the Capitol in Washington, DC. President Truman, speaking, committed U.S. forces to action. U.S. Reservists are recalled to active duty to fight in Korea. Some are seen getting off a bus at a military base reception center. Recalled reservists with full field gear, starting their journey overseas, and later seen in Korea. U.S. tanks moving over the road manned by soldiers with World War Two experience. Numerous scenes of heavy artillery firing, mostly at night. U.S. regular Army, National Guard, and Army reserve soldiers engaged in fire fights in Korean War using tanks, artillery, mortars, and rifles. Soldiers administer first air and assist wounded comrades. American troops slogging through rain and snow in Korea. Soldiers eating from mess kits, and reading the Stars and Stripes newspaper, during a lull in combat. North Korean officers arriving, in snow, for armistice talks. Following the truce, American soldiers are seen packed up and heading home from Korea.