United Nations troops advance in North Korea after the capture of Seoul during the Korean War. A group of UN soldiers search a PRC (People's Republic of China) soldier. A map of Korea highlights the port city of Hungnam in Korea. US Marines advance along snowy mountains and roads during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. Gun crews load artillery guns with shells. UN soldiers eat and rest at the beach of Hungnam. They advance in Hungnam. View from ground looking upward as parachute supplies are dropped from C-119 Boxcar airplanes for UN troops.
United Nations troops evacuate Haungam, North Korea during the Korean War. Parachute supplies dropped from a U.S. C-119, descend over a field in Hungnam for UN troops. UN troops embark on LSTs (Landing Ship Tank). Equipment loaded aboard LSTs. Beach installations are blasted by UN troops as they leave Hungnam. U.S. Marines climb up a hill during the advance in North Korea. The marines take positions on the hill top and fire guns and artillery. Amphibious vehicles approach a beach. Shell explosions on hills. U.S. airplanes overhead drop bombs on the hills and provides air support. A marine talks into a radio and airplanes overhead drop bombs over targets in fighting area. U.S. airplanes provide close air support to U.S. Marines fighting troops of People's Republic of China. Explosions on the hills. U.S. Marines advance on a hill and fire at enemy positions.
The Germans dig defensive positions on the eastern border of Germany during World War II. Hitler Youth, Reich Labor Service units and Baltic people dig defensive trenches on Germany's eastern border. View of Hitler youth lined up with shovels ready to fall out and dig. Hitler youth ride to the eastern front trench digging site on bicycles while holding shovels. At the trenches, men and women march carrying shovels and dig defensive positions. Mass hand digging effort underway by men and women and Hitler youth. Ground and aerial views of the trenches being dug. Wide aerial view of long line of jagged defensive trenches separating German held areas from the front with the Soviet Russian forces. English overlay narration describes difficult working conditions for the Baltic forced laborers, virtually slave labor, with poor working and living conditions.
Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's speaks to a crowd during his declaration of war against the British and French in World War II. The crowd assembled in front of the National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II in Rome, Italy to hear Mussolini's declaration of war. Benito Mussolini speaks from the balcony of Venice Palace. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt makes a speech criticizing Italy following its declaration of war on France and the United Kingdom. President Roosevelt is delivering a commencement address to a crowd in Memorial Gymnasium at the University of Virginia on June 10, 1940. Roosevelt says, "On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor." Views of the Italian Army in action during the North African Campaign of World War II. An Italian staff officer on a hill watches a battle. A long line of Italian mountain howitzers fire. An Italian officer looks through binoculars. A radio officer transmits a message. Italian Savoia Marchetti airplane in flight. The airplane drops bombs. An officer looks through binoculars. Two gun crews fire, The shells hit the earth and explode.
A military cemetery in a Burmese jungle during World War II. Bamboo crosses in the military cemetery in which members of U.S. Army Rangers 'Merrill's Marauders' 5307th Composite Unit are buried. Allied soldiers set up bamboo crosses in the cemetery.
A military film report on the advance of Merrill's Marauders (officially named 5307th Composite Unit) towards Myitkyina, Burma and recruitment and training of natives during World War II. Members of Detachment 101 of the Office of Strategic Services aboard a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain airplane in flight over Burma. Merill's Marauders and native rangers in Burma. Animated map highlights advance towards Japanese-held town of Myitkyina.
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