Mercury Astronauts Scott Carpenter and John Glenn, accompanied by several other persons, walk across a beach on Grand Turk Island. They carry scuba gear; board an outboard motorboat; and head out in the water.
Opening slate of August 1950 newsreel refers to Seesaw battle on beachhead. It shows several U.S. soldiers manning a 105mm howitzer field piece on sandy ground beside a steep hill. A small American flag marks their position. Scene shifts to a bivouac area of large tents and vehicles on flat ground. A body of water and higher ground is seen in the background. Next, an American flag flutters in the breeze, on a makeshift flagpole, atop a hill, where several soldiers are maintaining a lookout. A large radio antenna is installed on the hill. Back down on the flat land, American troops are breaking camp, pulling down the large tents. At Pohang Air Base (K-3) American troops are pulling down tents and packing up to leave. A C-46 transport plane sits nearby and a C-47 transport is in the background. Troops burn papers in 55-gallon drums. Troops load Army trucks with tents and equipment. Aerial glimpse of the area showing high hills surrounding it. View from a farm field where farmers are working, as four USAF F-80C jet fighter planes take off from the nearby airfield. View from aircraft flying above, as an F-80 attacks a ground target. Gun camera view of American aircraft strafing an installation at the base of a mountain. Explosions from striking rounds. Pilot pulls up abruptly to avoid the mountain. Gun camera view of rockets being fired from attacking aircraft on lines of communication, including rail and port facilities. Fires and smoke from the attacks. A strafing attack against a moving railroad train. The aircraft passes through heavy black smoke as the pilot breaks off the attack. Two views from aircraft making low passes over a major fire at a port facility. Both times the aircraft barely skirts heavy billowing black clouds. A line of white smoke arising from ground targets. Change of scene to the beach area shown at opening of the film, where an American gun crew is firing an M-101 105mm howitzer field piece, viewed from several angles. Change of scene shows U.S. troops working their way carefully along a mountain road in the Pusan Perimeter. Two soldiers run back from the front of the column. Troops pausing while staying close to the mountainside. Suddenly, a shell bursts just a short distance fron them, raising dense black smoke. Soldiers run across the road to seek protection close to the mountain. American soldiers moving carefully behind a parked M8 light armored car. Various vies of American soldiers operating in the mountainous area. Glimpse of fallen North Korean soldiers in the brush and foliage. American troops display a captured North Korean flag. South Korean soldiers on sentry duty outside fortified compound. Armed South Korean soldiers escort two ambulatory wounded North Korean prisoners. Wounded American soldier on a stretcher, being removed from a Sikorsky H-5 helicopter, at an airfield and being carried toward the aircraft flight line.
View of Japanese seacoast showing broken and mountainous coastline. Beaches and mountains in the background. Steamers at sea. Sailboat at sea. Snow covered mountains in the background. Sailboats at sea. Harbor waterfront area.
U.S. Naval Task Force of warships bombarding Okinawa in World War 2. Light cruiser USS St. Louis, CL-49, in foreground in the background is the battleship USS Texas, BB-35 shelling Okinawa. Heavy cruiser USS Wichita, CA-45, using signal light communications. Foreground the stern of the USS St. Louis, USS Texas in background. LCI 370 (Landing Craft Infantry) approaches from the right with the USS Texas in the background. On right, the USS St. Louis has turned to port and is shelling Okinawa, a destroyer in the middle, and the USS Texas on left. Close up of the USS St. Louis's stern as she shells Okinawa. Close up of three gun turrent firing. USS Texas in close shelling a hillside Japanese strong point on Okinawa. Shell hits the top of a hill and beach. Explosions due to the shelling. Smoke rises from coastline of Okinawa. Smoke rises from hill on Okinawa and shells hit around base of hill.
Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. Battleships and Portland class heavy cruiser bombard Peleliu island in Palau. Two Battleships underway at sea. Flash and smoke seen as battleship fires 14 inch guns.Fire and explosions on the island. Large smoke column rises over the beach.
Pan of a military compound. A Unit of cavalry, carrying the flag of Manchukuo, exits a military base. A wind sock flies in breeze at airbase. Two Japanese military biplane aircraft take off. Japanese flag flying on very high flag pole. A well-tended military building, with sand bagged sentry post at the entrance. Japanese officers on horseback observe a troop of cavalry parading loosely along a dirt street. They carry the Japanese flag. Closeup of the senior officer saluting the passing troop. A line of Japanese Type 94 tankettes moves along a dirt street. Horses being loaded on a wooden ferry for transport across a river, as a type 94 tankette enters the water and proceeds along the river. vies of the flat ferry carrying the horses. three tankettes moving along in the river. A train at station platform. Japanese soldiers and others on the platform. Sign at station reads Manchuria, in Cyrillic and Chinese. Manchukuo flag atop train station building. A beach scene, with hills across the water. A sentry on a lookout tower atop a building. Mounted Japanese cavalrymen with their officers on a hill overlooking the water.
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