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Lieutenant General James Van Fleet, assumes command of the Eighth Army in Korea, after General Douglas MacArthur is relieved of command by President Harry Truman
Opening scene shows a sign identifying the 38th Parallel separating North from South Korea. Refugees with their few belongings walk from North Korea to South Korea. A U.S. Patton tank is seen next, followed by another. Closeup of treads on a Patton tank, raising dust as it passes. Another Patton heading toward the camera, with a crewman waving. A Cessna L-19 Bird Dog, aircraft, marked with three stars, arrives, carrying the new Commander of the Eight Army, Lieutenant General James Van Fleet. He climbs out of the airplane and shakes hands with a Brigadier General. Standing behind him is Air Force Lieutenant General Earle E. Partridge, commander of the 5th Air Force. A jeep carrying General Van Fleet turns in from a dirt road. A sign reads "56th Regiment, Message Center." Lieutenant General Van Fleet, climbs out of the front right seat of the jeep. He is wearing a pair of pearl handled side arms. U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Partridge is seated in the back seat of the jeep and jumps out behind Van Fleet. View of explosion in distant hills, part of the initial barrage in advance of the next United Nations offensive. Sounds of aircraft and artillery are heard. American infantry are seen moving forward. Narrator notes that numerous Chinese troops were in the hills around the Chosin reservoir and they were committed in vast numbers against the UN forces. UN infantry in Korean War moving through forests and mist. Large numbers of Chinese prisoners of war are seen walking along a dirt road.
Soviet military examine a German Dornier DO-17 airplane that crash landed in a grass field
Soviet officers and soldier mechanics swarm over a German Dornier DO-17, that crash landed in an isolated grass field in the Soviet Union during World War II. Views of the aircraft , including tail, fuselage, wings, engines and cockpit. Several unexploded bombs are seen on the ground. The aircraft is basically intact. Greatest damage is bent propellers (and possible unseen internal engine damage) suffered during crash landing with gear up or collapsed during landing. Some battle damage is evident in cockpit area from air-to-air or ground-to-air Soviet weapons fire. The Soviet mechanics examine the downed airplane in great detail.
Salvage operations begin after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, bringing the U.S. into World War II.
Views of Pearl Harbor and environs,immediately after the Japanese air raid on December 7, 1941, that forced the U.S. into World War 2 in the Pacific. Fire smoke and Wreckage, including a Navy Catalina flying boat, on Ford Island. Mechanics salvaging parts from the remaining front half (tail missing) of a U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 bomber on the tarmac at Hickam Field. Wings from a B-17 with fuselage missing, in a hangar. Pieces of Air Forces airplanes strewn in front of damaged hangar. Pieces of U.S. Navy aircraft litter the ramp in front of a Ford Island hangar. Workers in a dinghy moving in front of bomb-damaged U.S. battleships. Workers standing on the capsized hull of the USS Arizona. A diver in suit and helmet going below decks of a sunken ship. Debris floating in the water. Pumps discharging water from a damaged battleship.
A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M3 Type 32 Zero fighter plane being tested at Wright Field, Ohio, during World War II
Army Air Forces records describe this as flight tests conducted at Wright Field on a Japanese Mitsubishi Type 0 MK2-SSF Hamp fighter plane, Army Air Forces (AAF) No. EB-201. (Recognized later, as a variant of the Zero, these Mitsubishi A6M3 Type 32 planes were renamed "Zeke 32.") Flight tests were made from January 9th to March 10th, 1944, to compare this aircraft with AAF fighters and to verify tests made in Australia by the Special Duties and Performance Flight of T.S.-7, Directorate of Technical Services, Melbourne. Test pilot in the cockpit with engine running. Closeup of pilot (possibly Captain Ralph C. Hoewing, who became first Commandant of the AAF Test Pilot School). He takes off from the airfield. and is seen in flight. Various aerial views of the Zero are seen including: flying overhead and from above as it flies over Ohio farmland. The pilot enters a shallow climb; and is seen from above and behind. He performs a slow descending roll. Finally, he buzzes the airfield at low altitude and high speed, and then brings the aircraft in for a smooth landing. (Note: This aircraft was rebuilt by the Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit in Hangar 7 at Eagle Farm Airfield, Brisbane, Australia, from the wrecks of five Mitsubishi A6M3 Type 32 Zeke's captured at Buna, New Guinea, during the war.) [ Ref. WWW. hangar7.org.au ]
U.S. troops and their improvised movie theaters in combat zones during World War II
A U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 airplane carrying movies among its cargo bound from New Caledonia to troops stationed at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, during World War 2. Views inside the airplane cabin, where troops sit alongside the cargo. Glimpse from cockpit of aircraft on final approach to land on the airfield. Troops unloading canisters of movie films from the C-47. (Handing the movie reels out of the C-47 is Russ Laming of the 13th Troop Carrier Squadron, a.k.a the Thirsty 13th.) Army truck carrying mail bags and movie films driving away from the airfield. U.S. soldiers walk to their makeshift movie tent from foxholes and fortified positions. Sign on the tent reads: "Bougainville Roxy, Tonights feature." Movie projector seen inside the tent, as soldiers enter. Views of movie theaters made out of logs and other available materials at various locations in the Pacific theater of operations. They range from simple and rugged to more elaborate, at rear locations, away from the front lines. U.S. servicemen racing to get the best seats in a theater, as the doors open for a movie. Servicemen walking into an open air theater. They are called to attention as the unit commander arrives and takes his seat. View of wounded soldiers recuperating in a hospital,where a movie camera is being set up in the ward. They are tended by a French nurse wearing a "flying nun" hat (possibly North Africa). Servicemen and women being seated in an outdoor theater, and other places, waiting to watch movies. Allied troops join Americans to watch U.S. movies. A theater sign announcing the week's movie program at a Royal New Zealand Air Force post in the jungles. Courier carrying film canister from a jeep into a jungle theater. Soldier mounting the film on projector. U.S. troops watching a movie outdoors, during rain storm.
United States General Dwight D Eisenhower reviews British and American officers in Germany.
United States and British officers in Germany during World War II. United States and British soldiers march with the American and the British flag. U.S. aircraft parked in the background. Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe General Dwight D Eisenhower along with staff walks on a runway at an airfield. Commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe General Carl Andrew Spaatz and British Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder walk towards General Eisenhower. The officers salute General Eisenhower. A U.S. soldier stands with a flag in hand. General Eisenhower shakes hands with officers and converses with them. United States Army Air Force General James Harold Doolittle stands with other British officers. An aircraft parked on the ground. A tent pitched on a field with soldiers in the foreground.
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