U.S. forces on the move to encircle the Iron Triangle, and blast the enemy from the hilltops during the Korean War. The first scene shows a U.S. Sherman tank carrying about 15 American infantrymen who occupy every possible space atop the tank. It is followed by a Patton tank, also covered with American infantry getting a ride. Fuzzy view of a tank in field with traces of snow. U.S. gun crew firing a towed field howitzer. Closeup of American Lieutenant commanding artillery. He is using a field telephone. Another crew firing a mortar. Shells exploding on the hilltops. U.S. soldiers observing with binoculars from a bunker. Numerous explosions of many kinds of ordnance in the hills. Soldier firing a 30-caliber Browning air-cooled machine gun. Another American soldier firing a sub-machine gun. Other infantrymen firing fully automatic rifles. A U.S. Air Force F-51 Mustang fighter plane drops napalm on a target. Another Mustang fighter dives low to fire rockets and strafe an enemy position. Many more views of American artillery, tanks, and machine guns firing at the hills. Infantry move uphill to occupy the hilltops. Two are seen carrying flame throwers. As the infantry enter woods on a hillside, a flamethrower is employed. Troops in a sandbagged position in a town. Sick and wounded Korean civilians lie on litters in a paved area from where they are being placed into trucks.
A State Fair in the United States. A group of people waiting under a canopy, during a State Fair. A vehicle arrives in front of the canopy and men and women get in the vehicle. The vehicle going up a ramp. A vehicle passing along the road beside the ramp. The vehicle coming down the ramp. Tents in view beside the ramp. Sign reading: Castle Ehrlich Hirsch Shows.
Wreckage of Allied aircraft destroyed during the invasion of Normandy, in World War 2. Location: a field in Normandy,France. A destroyed Martin B-26 Marauder bomber with a propeller on the ground beside it. A wrecked British Horsa glider, with front part of its fuselage missing.Remnants of other gliders. A propeller sitting alone in the field. Remains of a destroyed C-47 transport plane.
View out window of a railroad train moving through countryside in Formosa (present day Taiwan), during Japanese colonial rule. Two adults and a group of children stand on embankment and wave as the train passes just before it enters a tunnel. View from moving train toward rear of train, as it rounds a bend over a wooden trestle, shows that the steam locomotive is pushing the train, backwards, rather than pulling it. Mountains are covered in trees and other foliage. Vertical sign post written in Chinese. More bucolic scenery until the train approaches a large group of people with luggage and belongings, waiting beside the track, as if planning to board. A sign identifies the location as “Fun kiko” (Chinese characters read as “hu qi fen”). The train is stopped, and passengers have boarded. One woman is placing baggage in a lower compartment accessible by door in exterior of train. Underway, again, view from end car of train (front, since it is moving backwards) as switchman actuates control and train moves onto a parallel track, while another stopped oncoming locomotive waits for it to clear. The train returns to the main line again, having circled the stopped locomotive. Cargo of heavy timbers and similar things being moved on another train.
The streamline Union Pacific railroad train on a record breaking run in Los Angles. The Union Pacific breaks two records on the run to Chicago. A passenger stands by the train station platform as the railway train prepares to depart. Conductor enters the train and the train slowly pulls away from the station. Cooks and chefs at work in the train pantry and kitchen areas. Waiters serve food to diners on the railroad train. Workers check the train at a station. Exterior views of the train during its journey as it crosses a bridge, and views from a fixed camera position centered underneath the train as it passes over. Passengers waiting at the station in Chicago. Conductor waving from window of train.
Life of people in a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II. A German man reads a newspaper and looks at advertisements. Narrator indicates many advertisements are seeking missing persons after the war. Women workers at the Central Postal Inquiry Bureau in Hamburg reviewing written requests that have been received as people look for relatives. People seek permission to travel by trains. German people on foot and with bicycles wait in groups to cross pontoon bridges built by British engineers. Military government trucks and traffic cross a bridge with city buildings visible behind. Elevated view over tracks of locomotive train pulling slowly into train station with many passenger rail cars. Large group of German people on the train platform as the railroad train pulls up. People struggle to get onto the train. British guards pull a man away from a train at a station as he is trying to ride on the side bumper. Bicyclists and pedestrians moving forward on town streets after clearance. More views of fully loaded passenger train pulling out from German train station with many passengers visible in open top cars. A British flag at a military government court room. A hearing being conducted. An officer presides as judge over the hearing. Several man stand in front of the judge in a largely empty court room, including the accused, an interpreter, German defense counsel, and British prosecutor. A German police band plays. Narrator describes the remaking of the German police force. Two uniformed German police officers talking on a street as traffic goes by. A Red Cross team with nurses and technicians checks the blood pressure, height, weight and performs laboratory tests like blood content, measuring the health of German civilians, who the narrator says are receiving about 1000-1200 calories per day, or half the British military allotment. German children idle, at work, and at play: Two young boys playing in rubble of destroyed buildings; A German teenage boy walks behind a horse plowing a field; boys and girls playing amid rubble of buildings; German boys playing on moving turnstile equipment or a moving partial antiaircraft gun platform in a bombed railroad yard. Wide view of German children playing on top of a giant mound of dirt and rubble from bombing. Older German man delivers a speech and people listen in a hall. A German school teacher in a classroom (possibly a church, with crucifix on wall behind him), and crowd of children in the classroom. Chalk board at front of room. German boys seated at desks with pencils and paper doing school work.
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