At the start of an air show in Spokane, Washington, during World War 2, a U.S..Army Air Force Colonel introduces Brigadier General James G. Parker, Commanding General of the 4th Air Force, headquartered in San Francisco. General Parker says a few words of greeting. People applaud. The Colonel then introduces Air Force Brigadier General Dale V. Gaffney, Commanding General of the Alaska Wing, Air Transport Command. He also says a few words. Then, (sound only) the Colonel introduces a Major, from Spokane, who had survived the Bataan Death March and also successfully escaped from a Japanese prison camp.
Army Air Force Major Samuel Grashio speaks prior to an air show in Spokane, Washington, during World War 2. He is from Spokane, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, and had successfully escaped from a Japanese prison camp. The Major begins to describe his experiences during the fall of Corregidor and Bataan, during the Japanese invasion at the start of World War II in the Pacific. Unfortunately, the sound stops (purposely ?) as he gets into the details of his story.
UN forces relax during a lull in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. Army Commander of the UN forces General MacArthur on the front with his men. An aerial view of a mountain terrain and the 38th parallel. Shirtless North Korean prisoners are marched under guard, with their arms over their heads. Damaged tanks, artillery and other equipment. During the lull in the fighting, UN forces rest and Army soldiers stage their own show and entertain their buddies. U.S. Army soldier acts in a skit and dances with another soldier dressed like a woman, and other soldiers watch the show and laugh at them.
French troops mop up the Reds( Communists ) and open a new drive in Indochina during the Indochina War. French troops disembark from landing crafts at a beachhead. They move into fields. They wade through waist deep water in a channel. Soldiers fire guns and artillery. Aircraft in flight for aerial bombardment to mop up communists from fortified villages. Huts burn and a fire blazes. Ruins in a village after land and aerial bombardment. Dead and wounded soldiers. Prisoners are taken by French troops.
French troops attack the Reds in Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam during First Indochina War. Soldiers on tanks fire in the field. They hide behind barricades and fire. French soldiers with Communist prisoners.
French and United States Army 3rd Army troops liberate Strasbourg, France during World War II. Tanks of the French 1st Army moves from the Swiss border. Sign reads “Mülhausen Elsaß” (“Mulhouse, Alsace”). Troops find the body of a dead German soldier along the road. They advance in the Metz area. The 9th army advances through villages in bordering Germany. Soldiers walk on the battlefield. German prisoners of war (POWs) walk along with the soldiers. Civilians holding the French flag return to their homes after the battle. Strasbourg sign in German reads “Straßburg Schiltigheim”. Bell tower of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Strasbourg, France. Damaged buildings near the Cathedral. The street is littered with pile of handheld, small Nazi flags with swastika emblem. Men gather outside buildings discussing amongst themselves. U.S. Third Army soldiers walk in the mud. Winter weather overshoes are distributed to troops. Soldiers put on the all-weather boots. More German soldiers and officers are captured in Metz. United States Ninth Army troops enter the town of Weisweiler, Germany. Soldiers moving through backyards, chicken houses and engage in house-to-house fighting. A mortar crew fire mortars behind trench made of sandbags. A wounded U.S. Army soldier crawls to reach the outstretched arm of a fellow soldier. Injured U.S. soldier receiving treatment in aid station. Medical aid stations at various places on the battlefield. Medics treat a wounded soldier. A dying soldier lies down on the street. Soldiers carry a patient to top of a tank. They march forward on the battlefield as officers in Jeep watch.
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