U.S. Army Corps of Engineers use a mobile crane and other construction equipment to rebuild a bridge during the Korean War. Closeup of engineers standing on the edge of a newly built section of the bridge. Wheels of the mobile crane are nearby. They lower a cable as an inflatable boat arrives carrying steel sections for the construction. The boat and its cargo is pulled in and tied up to the existing structure. Scene shifts to a dirt road, where several Patton tanks are clustered near a large tent. Tank crews are checking their guns and equipment. Closeup of Lieutenant General James Van Fleet, newly appointed Commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, at the construction site. Closeup of a Patton tank with crew members visible, as it passes the camera. Its main gun is wrapped in tarpaulin covering. Next, a Patton tank is seen crossing a pontoon bridge. U.S. troops firing an M20 75mm recoilless rifle at enemy positions from a temporary hillside base. American troops firing a mortar. Scene shifts completely to Korean refugees fleeing the battlefields. They and their belongings are loaded into trucks, along with food and other supplies. Closeups of some of the refugees. A column of trucks filled with refugees is seen making its way along a dirt road. United Nations troops investigate possible infiltrators from the North, They are seen searching and questioning some. A sign at one area reads: "65th PW Cage. Keep Out." Some in the prisoner area are seen being interrogated and writing answers to questions.
Documentary film depicts conditions during Spanish civil war. Activities of people in Fuentiduena village. Farmers plow their fields using wooden plows and horses to pull them. A farmer sowing seed by hand. Farmers planning irrigation of dry fields. Men climb hill carrying picks and mattocks to cut irrigation ditches. They work cutting a ditch along a line laid out on the ground. A dog sits watching them. One farmer uses a wooden tool to tamp the base of the new irrigation channel. Men working at the river edge to connect the new irrigation ditch. Other farmers using picks to steer the water as it begins to flow into the fields. Artillery fire is heard in the background.
Camera pans walls of a Republican army base. Several statues stand on pillars between sandbagged fortifications. Barbed wire is seen in some locations. Camera pans down face of tall building showing shell holes in places. Sign next to elaborate entrance door refers to general mobilization. A Red Cross car displaying white flag rushes down empty street toward place where smoke is rising from rebel shelling. Another scene shows civilians running and one falling during a shelling attack. A shell explodes near the camera with black smoke billowing. The Red Cross car rushes to another location. City dwellers walk about near rubble from shelling. Boys look for shell fragments in the rubble. A woman holding a baby runs for cover. Another shell explodes nearby. Two civilians lie where they have fallen, victims of the shelling. (Narrator ascribes the shelling to German artillery.) A cyclist in uniform walks his bicycle through broken glass as he steps past the dead pair of victims.
Activities of the U.S. Navy during the Battle of Iwo Jima in Japan during World War II. U.S. Navy Admiral Richmond Turner and U.S. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal on flag bridge reading messages. They watch the target area through binoculars. Mount Suribachi, flag locker in the foreground. Smoke column rises from the base of Mount Suribachi. Soldiers fire gun from a destroyer. Smoke arising from explosions.
Activities of the U.S. 5th Marine Division at Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II Cruisers and destroyers bombard the beach. Marines aboard landing craft advancing towards the beach. Mount Suribachi in view. Explosions on the Iwo Jima beachhead. Explosions near a landing craft. Heavy columns of smoke arises from the base of Mount Suribachi.
Activities of the U.S. 5th Marine Division at Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Beach in view as troops advance up knoll. Marines pinned down by enemy fire on the beach. Smoking base of Mount Suribachi in the background. Troops advance towards the beach. Flame throwers crawl forward on the beach. Heavy columns of smoke arise due of firing.
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