A film on the importance of photographic reconnaissance during the Korean War. U.S. Navy pilots and and an officer in a briefing room. They study pictures taken by pilots. The officer briefs them. He marks target areas on the photographs. Men carrying bombs on a trailer of aircraft carrier flight deck. They are loaded in airplanes. An aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean. Flags flying giving signals. The aircraft taking off from the carrier, including Douglas AD Skyraider aircraft and F9F Panther jet aircraft. The photograph pilot seated in the cockpit of F9F airplane. The aircraft takes off. F9F Panther airplanes fly in formation overhead. Aerial view of a target area in Korea. Smoke rises from bombardment of the area. The airplanes drop bombs. Heavy columns of smoke rise. The enemy fires anti aircraft guns. The bombs are dropped in the correct area by taking information from the photographs. Includes multiple gun camera views of actual strafing and bombing of targets by U.S. Navy aircraft during the Korean War. Also includes a small amount of dramatized on ground battle scenes.
USS Oriskany in Korean waters. U.S. Navy Chance Vought F4U Corsair fighter bombers on the aircraft carrier. Freezing temperatures ice the deck of USS Oriskany. Airmen clear the iced deck with shovels. Ice covered deck gun. Planes in flight. The planes reach Korean shores and drop bombs. Machine gun and rocket fire over supply routes, railroads, coastal shipping, supply dumps, troop concentrations and transport columns. Clouds of black smoke due to the explosions. GIs arrive at the Do-BONG ORPHAN ASYLUM in Korea. Korean war orphans run to greet them. Soldiers distribute warm clothes to the children.
U.S. Army 31st Regiment Tank Company during attack on Hill 1062, or Papasan Hill, in Korea during the Korean War "Battle of Old Baldy". Commanding Officer of the company briefing the soldiers (white and some African American soldiers) about mission on Hill 1062 (Papasan Hill). Tanks parked in the background. Soldiers on tanks. They load the tanks with shells. Soldiers put on bullet proof vests. The tank convoy advances. Close-up view on moving tank from must behind should of soldier in lead tank, with his head out of the lead tank hatch. Tanks moving on valley floor toward Hill 1062. Smoke from explosions and bombardment on Hill 1062 ahead. 7th Division artillery provides protective fire as the tanks get into position. Enemy fire incoming including machine gun and artillery fire. Soldiers in U.S. Army tanks fire at enemy positions on hills. U.S. aircraft in the air dropping bombs. Smoke due to bombardment. A smoke screen laid out by chemical engineers on the roads. Chemical engineer soldiers carry materials for laying down smoke screen to provide cover as tank convoy retreat from forward positions. Tank convoy moves back to the camp.
Reconnaissance Patrol in Korea during the Korean War. Tank with United States Army soldiers on it moves along village. Wounded soldier carried by two soldiers cross a stream. They place him on a stretcher on ground and attend to his leg. Another wounded soldier with wounds on leg, lying on stretcher, smoking a cigarette. The wounded soldiers carried on Army jeep for medical treatment.
Reconnaissance Patrol in Korea. Two United States soldiers walk ahead of M4 Sherman Tank using a mine detector. Soldiers fires Quad .50 Caliber Machine Gun targeting on hill. M4 tank named "Renobaby II" drives off road to make way for other vehicle. (Korean War)
187th Airborne Regimental Combat team patrol in Munson-ni, Korea during the Korean War. Korean civilian carries a wounded girl on his back. United States Medic gives medical treatment to the wounded Korean girl, lying on stretcher. Soldier bandages her hand. Medic applies medicine on United States soldier's leg. Korean women and children on field raise hands and yell 'Banzai'. North Korean Lieutenant questioned by an interpreter.