Narrated feature on the Korean War and the arrival and initial reactions of 24th Division Army troops during the first 50 days of war. Soldiers boarding landing craft and landing on beaches. Tending wounded soldiers. Advancing on foot. U.S. Air Force supply land landing and soldiers unloading boxes from it. Troops assembling with gear. Soldier holding box containing food rations. U.S. Soldiers in line crossing bridges and into towns as Korean citizens look on. South Korean soldiers marching through villages, looking weary from war. Villagers carrying belongings and leaving a town. U.S. soldiers march through an empty town with all shops and homes closed. U.S. soldiers digging gun placements for artillery and machine guns. Soldiers cooking. One stirs pot with knife. Battle scenes with U.S. soldiers firing artillery, rifles, machine guns. Wounded on stretchers.
Workers affix wheels to the car chassis on assembly line in the Ford Motor Company plant at Highland Park. Various workers adding their efforts on the assembly line. A better dressed foreman watches the workers and their progress. Rows of tires mounted on the wall in the background
Streetcar transports passengers in San Francisco, California. People walk on busy streets. Some cross the road. People in streetcars, buses and cars moving on busy streets. People walk past by the shops and stores at the roadside. Several views of the Transamerica Pyramid building (600 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94111) as streetcar makes a stop on the street.
Scenes in historic district of Charleston, South Carolina. Two women enter a building. View of a church. Pedestrian and automobile traffic on street. Iron gate reads 'R.G. Rhett No 147', identifying the home of R. Goodwin Rhett, who held important commercial and political positions, including: President of the People's National Bank; Mayor of Charleston; and President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Two women exit through the iron gate at Rhett's home. A man is seen sitting and walking in the gardens around a house. He enters the house. Old-fashioned, leafy narrow street with two story houses. Cars in front of the houses.
33rd U.S. President Harry S. Truman addresses a huge gathering at a ground breaking of the Reynolda Campus of Wake Forest College in North Carolina. President is shown arriving in a U.S. Air force C-121 Lockheed Constellation aircraft. Terminal of the airport can be seen. People have gathered to welcome the president. Clip shows several views of his speech at the ground-breaking ceremony and views of his arrival and departure from the airport. On arrival he is seen shaking hands with North Carolina governor W. Kerr Scott. He also greets College President Harold W. Tribble. During the Wake Forest University ground-breaking ceremony other dignitaries seen include Charles Babcock, Judge Hubert Olive, Odis Mull. Students and citizens seen in audience listening to President, including some students waving confederate flags.
Interior of a C-119J from the U.S. Air Force 6593rd Test Squadron (Special) during flight to practice space capsule recovery for Discoverer Program. Crewman in a sitting position on aircraft floor. Crewmen working with winch equipment and pick-up gear.
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