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.
United States Marine hands out candy to large group of Korean children, during Korean War. A Korean boy fills canteen of marine. Two long lines of U.S. Marines come along side of the road with weapons slung over shoulders. A North Korean in white dress comes in opposite direction from the troops. Marines talk to North Korean children. Marines rest along side of the road. Korean children on the road. Korean people wave at a U.S. flag. A Korean child with U.S. flag. Koreans carry causalities on the stretchers. Marine troops and jeep move along road. Dead Koreans lie on the ground.
Sign at a U.S. Outpost reads' Out Post No 12'. Two U.S. guards patrol the Outpsot. Two soldiers in jeep arrive at Outpost 12 and checked by guards.View of mountain range from Outpost 12.Jeep arrives to another outpost that reads 'Out Post No 13'. Guards check the soldiers and lift up the barrier for the jeep to pass.24 May 1947.
During the retreat back to South Korea, at Yonpo inside the Hamhung - Hungnam defense perimeter. U.S. soldiers evacuate the wounded from Chosin Reservoir battle and other personnel from Yonpo air base. Military covered trucks and vans lined up on snow covered air base. Transport planes in the background including C-119 Flying Boxcars and C-47 of the U.S. Far East Air Forces Combat Cargo Command. Soldiers shift the wounded from the vans into the waiting planes. Soldiers carry the wounded on stretchers onto a U.S. Marines C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft. The C-54 taxis and takes off.
Shows arrival and speech of Kim II Sung Prime Minister of North Korea. Russian scientist giving Korean students lectures in biochemistry. Scenes of North Korean Students at heavily crowded railway station leaving to Russia. Students performing experiments in chemistry lab and on lab-rats. Shows group of Russian doctors and nurses aiding women and children at a factory yard and inside a hospital.1948.
Shows Korean girls making elaborated embroidered scarves. Scenes of girls doing needlework and pictures of Stalin. Shows sample of pottery and bas relief praising Stalin. A Korean artist paints. Korean men manufacture busts with molds and do engraving on slates. Several Korean handicrafts in a room. Russian Army gathers for a celebration held prior to their withdrawal from North Korea.1948.