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.
Animated map shows Japanese massing for attacks against Australia, Midway Island, and the Aleutians in World War 2. U.S. naval forces prepare for the battles of Coral Sea and Midway. U.S. warships seen underway in the Pacific Ocean. Crewmen on the aircraft carrier, USS Yorktown (CV-5) push a Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft with folded wings. Senior officer on the carrier looking through binoculars. Ship's flight operations personnel are alerted by bugle over intercom to report to their stations. flight deck operational crews assemble on deck. Aviators assemble in ready rooms. They are told a Japanese carrier has been sighted and they are to attack its aircraft. Ready rooms are notified of enemy contact at 125 miles. The pilots scramble up stairs to the flight deck and their airplanes. They climb into cockpits Douglas SBD Dauntless planes, start engines, taxi, and take off one at a time. They form up in flights of 3 aircraft each and fly overhead. View of the Island on the Yorktown, as they wait for aircraft to return. Antiaircraft gunners wait in readiness for possible Japanese attack. A formation of Japanese Aichi D3A (Val) aircraft is sighted. They dive at the Yorktown, as her gunners fire away at them. Black flak clouds fill the sky. An explosion as a bomb strikes the Yorktown. She lists and burns and is wracked by another explosion. An SBD dauntless rocks loose near the end of flight deck. USS Yorktown along with other ships in the task force battling Japanese aircraft. A Japanese torpedo plane is downed on the surface of the sea. Flames and smoke at forward port area of Yorktown's flight deck. Gunners hit wings of attacking airplane. Firefighters on Yorktown set up hoses on her deck. More U.S. aircraft airborne to attack Japanese force only 15 miles away. U.S. dive bomber dropping a bomb. An SBD dauntless lands on a carrier deck. Navy aviators pose on deck. Closeup of a Dauntless landing. "Scorecard" compares U.S. and Japanese losses in the two engagements.
Shells for a heavy coastal defense gun are seen lined up on the ground. Japanese soldier seen leaning against gun. Japanese soldiers open wooden boxes containing smaller shells. They prepare an emplacement for an antiaircraft gun. Soldiers unpack and line shells on the ground. Formation of bombers in flight overhead. Aerial view of Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-21 "Sally" bombers in flight. Bombs strike ground targets below. "Sally" bombers landing at Japanese occupied Clark Field in the Philippines during World War II. Japanese antiaircraft gun surrounded by sandbags. A gunner looks skyward through binoculars. Japanese troops play volleyball in background. Other Japanese soldiers playing ping pong; wrestling; and playing baseball. Ground crews employ care using lights and illuminated markers on the flight line at night. A Mitsubishi Ki.30 "Ann" aircraft flies overhead. Japanese pilots salute their commander and proceed to their aircraft. Bomber and fighter aircraft seen. A Mitsubishi Ki-46 Dinah and Ki-15 Babs crank up and take off. View from cockpit of a plane taking off. Many aircraft seen widely spaced out on the airfield, below. Crew members manipulate controls of equipment inside an airplane. Windsock standing out on the ground. View of staff at positions inside air command center. Meteorologist releases weather balloon which is tracked by telescope. Japanese monitor uses old U.S. flying squadron blackboard to record information about their own flight operations.
A U.S. Marine cemetery in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Crosses over graves. A marine armed with a carbine walks past a sign: '2nd Marine Division Cemetery'. Names of the marines who died on 15th June, 1944 engraved on the crosses.
The working of weather bureau in the United States. Snow covered shores of the Potomac River at Great Falls, west of Washington DC, following 15 inch snowfall in February 1936. Two people walking on a high snow covered bluff near the Great Falls. The frozen Potomac River, covered with ice. View of the Memorial Bridge spanning a totally frozen Potomac River, with the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in the background. Views of the river carrying chunk of snow and ice as a thaw begins the breakup. Man photographs a woman next to a guard rail at the Potomac River, covered in chunks of thawing ice and snow. Frozen ice chunks flowing under the Memorial Bridge. Narrator describes flood beginning with heavy rainwall in Shenandoah River valley on March 17 and March 18, 1936. Scenes of Western Union Telegrams detailing reports of rain in the west from various towns in the Shenandoah foothills. One from Romney , West Virginia notes rainfall of 5 inches.
Opening scene shows Keio University (2 Chome-15-45 Mita, Minato City, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan, before World War II. Six students walk side-by-side toward the camera. Next, they are seen in rowing attire, carrying their racing shell (a sculling boat) above their heads, and then placing it gently into a river. View from Coxwain's position, of rowers pulling on their oars. Scene shifts to view above the river as two sculling boats, each with eight rowers, compete in a race. A launch carrying an umpire follows the racing boats.