The United Nation forces during the Korean War. Activities and advance of United Nations forces in Korea from 22nd to 29th January, 1951. United Nation Forces move north wards. United States 25th Division Combat Team loaded on tanks as they advance into a village. United States 35th Regimental Combat team pushes on in Osan, Korea. A soldier checks and cleans a machine gun. Civilians being searched for weapons. Task Force troops of the UN enter a town. Refugees being questioned with the help of a South Korean interpretor. A soldier works on shells,he looks through the gun sight and artillery being fired. UN troops take Koreans as prisoners and a soldier speaks on a field phone. UN task force in Suwon. Soldiers loaded onto an American tank as they move towards Han river, U.S. General Joseph S. Bradley with an officer as they confer. Soldiers of the United States 25th Infantry Division rest against a wall.
United Nation Forces retreat during the Korean War following the Red Chinese aggression. Entrapped United States 1st Marine Division men reach Hamhung, Korea. Soldiers loaded in trucks as they come to Hamhung from Chosin Reservoir. A Chinese prisoners with a solid ice sheet around his feet. United Nation forces being evacuated from Hungnam. Military trucks and vehicles being loaded aboard Landing Ship Tanks and ships. Litter wounded being transferred onto landing crafts. Troops aboard the landing crafts. Troops being transferred onto a ship from the crafts. U.S. Major General Smith and soldiers at a grave yard during a burial as a man blows a bugle. Soldiers lined up as they pay their last respects to the dead.
Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu being released on parole in Tokyo, Japan. Japan's war time foreign minister being released on parole after completing four years of imprisonment out of seven years. Shigemitsu bids adieu to prison officers at the gates of Tokyo's war criminal penitentiary. He gets aboard a ship and sailors on the ship.
Montage of scenes recorded after the Battle of Monte Cassino in World War 2. Opening scene shows New Zealand 19th RHQ tank in Mignano Montelungo, as the 24th New Zealand Battalion re-enacts its entry into the ruins of Monte Cassino, on March 26, 1944. In this restaging, 24th Battalion infantrymen are shown moving through rubble of destroyed town, firing small arms and one throwing a hand grenade. Narrator identifies "Hangman's Hill," (which was held by the 1st battalion 9th Gurkha Rifles) at Monte Cassino. In this restaging , New Zealanders, scramble over rubble, and dig out a "wounded" comrade, while explosions occur in background. Medics "attend" to him. Other NZ troops fire small arms from behind rubble barriers. A huge explosion occurs in background. A British artillery piece (obscured by debris) fires rounds. Infantrymen fire small arms. A camouflaged British tank fires its gun. In change of scene, other British troops advance cautiously near a damaged building and take several German soldiers prisoner. View of the destroyed Monte Cassino monastery and castle on Castle Heights. Ruins of building adjacent to the "Hotel Excelsior,"below the castle. Several medics with Red Cross flag in distant rubble. Views from destroyed Monastery atop the mountain. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
U.S. Army Air Forces C-47aircraft , number 42-93098, of the 9th Troop Carrier Command Pathfinder Group, and its crew. This is the first aircraft and crew to drop American paratroopers (pathfinders) over France during the Allied invasion, in World War 2. The aircraft taxis on a British airfield. Crew of the aircraft are seen in front of it, including pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Joel Crouch, Copilot, Captain Vito Pedone, Navigator, Captain William Culp, Radio Operator, Harold Coonrod, along with two crew chiefs. Crew members shake hands and board the aircraft. Colonel Crouch waves from the cockpit of the C-47 (but has not started engines). Major J.L. Sweetman boards another aircraft. Colonel Crouche's C-47 taxis to where the Pathfinders will load up. View of Control Tower at RAF North Witham, with ambulance parked outside it. Three hours before takeoff.Colonel Crouch, is seen on a path near the airfield, with a Pathfinder Captain and Lieutenant, who will be aboard his aircraft and be the first to jump into France. They kid around. The Pathfinder officers note that Colonel Crouch wears paratroop wings. Later, two Pathfinders, of the 101st Airborne Division , with camouflaged faces and American flag insignia on their right shoulders, step from woods and pose momentarily. Pathfinder Paratroopers line up to board C-47 aircraft as Lt. Col. Crouch rides a scooter at the airfield. Aircrews and Pathfinders pose for photographs before taking off. The lead aircraft, number 42-93098, with Lieutenant Colonel Crouch at the controls, takes off from RAF Station North Witham at 9:54 PM, on June 5, 1944. to begin the invasion of France. (Note: This C-47 was shot down on September 18, 1944, during Operation Market Garden, and crash landed on Haamstede Airbase, Netherlands. Although shot at by German troops on the ground, pilot, Maj Joseph A. Beck, and Navigator Lt. Vincent J. Paterno, survived as prisoners of war. Copilot Capt Fred O. Lorimer and another crew member were fatally shot.)
The end of Italian Fascism in Milan during World War II. People in a car as they move on a street with people on either side. A sign reads ' Regina' outside the Hotel Regina (Via Santa Margherita, 6 20121 Milano MI Italy). People look out from windows in a building. A car pulls up in the street. Women smile as they look down in the street from a balcony. Soldiers of 13th Tank Battalion of United States 1st Armored Division loaded on tanks as they move past the cheering civilians. Cars outside a building. German troops exit the Hotel Regina, used as the SS (Schutzstaffel) headquarters in Milan. German SS troops being questioned outside Hotel Regina. German prisoners seated in a car. Cars on tram tracks. A car being driven on the tracks.
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