U.S. Far East Air Force operations in Korea during the Korean War. Aerial views of Pyongtaek airbase (K-6) in Korea. Aerial views of Kunsan Airbase (K-8) in Korea. Many barracks shown.Base is quite developed.
FEAF (Far East Air Force) briefing film shows U.S. FEAF activities at Kunsan Air Base K-8 in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. B-26 aircraft parked at the air base. Crew members near the planes. Two pilots enter top split cockpit and bombardier enters nose compartment. A fireguard signals and pilot starts engines. Plane taxis.The name "Delores" is painted below the cockpit of the B-26.
FEAF (Far East Air Force) briefing film shows aerials of Kunsan Air Base K-8 in Korea during the Korean War. Aerial view of the air base and its surrounding area. Views of hangars and runway.
Far East Air Force operations in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. Air Force B-26 aircraft on Kunsan airbase (K-8) field. Crew members perform preflight inspections and climb aboard. The bombadier gets into the nose turret of the aircraft and pilot into the cockpit. A ground crewman stands fireguard with extinguisher for engine start. Aircraft taxis as a ground crewman signals. Aircraft loaded with bombs under its wings taxis along the field for take off. Aircraft taxis.
Communist-backed North Korea at war with South Korea. Views of U.S. Navy warships firing on North Korean targets, U.S. Army tanks moving through a city in Korea, and U.S. soldiers scrambling in a fire fight. A U.S. Army chaplain hugs a dying American soldier and pats his face. The chaplain closely prays over the dying soldier. A U.S. Army officer lifts a shocked Korean child into a truck. Young Korean children, possibly orphans, eating food at a table. Korean civilians including women and children fleeing the war. UN council in a meeting regarding the Korean War. Soldiers from multiple nations mobilizing for the effort in Korea. View of Kremlin in Soviet Union. Scene of Stalin dead, lying in state surrounded by flowers around his casket. Other Soviet political leaders look on. Citizens pass by site where Stalin is memorialized. East German leader Walter Ulbricht speaking at a podium. Laborers in East Germany struggling as they work longer hours for less pay. Workers construct buildings. East German construction workers sitting idle on the scaffolds of a building under construction as they begin their strike in June 1953, initiating the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.
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.