U.S. troops battle North Koreans in Taejon, Korea during the Korean War. U.S. 25th Infantry Division troops fire howitzers, bazookas and other artillery weapons at North Korean positions. U.S. tanks fire at enemy positions. Smoke rises from enemy positions on hills. A U.S. aircraft bombs enemy positions. U.S. troops cover a bridge with rifle and machine gun fire to help the last units to cross a river near Yongdon. Men in a jeep fire guns as it goes across a bridge. United Nations flag flies from a pole at U.S. 24th Division Regimental Command Post in Chinju. North Korean prisoners are rounded up at the command post as South Korean troops move up to aid the defense. Trucks tow camouflage artillery guns up a hill. 25th Division infantrymen advance and recover their vehicles.
The Korean Armistice Agreement signed by Communist delegates and United Nations delegates in Panmunjom, Korea ending the Korean War. UN (United Nations) honor guard lined up outside the building where armistice is to be signed. U.S. Army Lieutenant General William K. Harrison, Jr. arrives with other officials at the building. Delegate Harrison and Communist delegates sign the peace agreement. Harrison leaves the building. Far East Commander U.S. Army General Mark W. Clark signs the Korean Armistice Agreement at a base camp. Army cameramen take pictures.
A training of U.S. OSS ( Office of the Strategic Services) personnel for underwater demolition at Salt Key in Nassau, Bahama Island during World War II. OSS personnel of the Lamberston Underwater Diving Unit as they are being briefed about night problems. Men row a boat to point A and attach swim fins and bay units. They get underwater and swim. They keep a check on a compass to ensure the correctness of the course. The personnel get onto the boat and head for the beach.
Towing of Royal Navy Phoenix units across English Channel for D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. Phoenix unit (Mulberry Harbor) on water. Transport planes tow gliders. British officers aboard a tugboat as they watch planes in sky. British Corvette underway.
Egyptian officer salutes as Flag of Egypt is raised during reoccupation of Gaza. Israeli forces load equipment in a truck, to depart. A landing craft heads for shore. A crowd of Egyptians assembled outside a building. United Nations representatives discussing a territorial map with an Egyptian officer. Egyptian troops celebrate as they reoccupy Gaza and raise their flag on a building. Group of demonstrators waving French Tricolor. United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) soldier standing by demarcation line with binoculars; the UN flag blowing beside him. troops in Gaza. He walks as sentry by the demarcation line. Scenes of UNEF officials discussing matters. Vehicles of UNEF lined up on a section of road. Israeli gathering outside, with speaker haranging crowd over microphone, from balcony of building. People in crowd hold many signs in Hebrew and flags with Star of David, and other symbols on them. Interiors of Israeli Parliament Knesset shows Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion speaking. Soldiers wielding batons jump from a truck and toward an area of unrest. Troublemakers are escorted away.
British forces along with the Chindits units in India as they plan for their operations in Burma during World War 2. A ground crewman holds a flag marking the place where an arriving American C-47A airplane should park on the Hailakandi Airfield, Assam, India. British Major General Orde Charles Wingate steps from the plane. He is greeted by U.S. Army Air Forces Colonel Philip Cochran, Co-Commander of the1st Air Commando Group, and other American and British officers. General Wingate, flanked by Colonel Cochran and another officer, gives a detailed briefing to Officers, about plans for Burma operations. Later, Colonel Cochran conducts an additional briefing for enlisted personnel of the 1st Air Commando Group. General Wingate inspects Chindits units. Wingate looks over map spread on hood of a jeep and discusses it with British staff.
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