United States 1st Tank Battalion of the 1st Marine Division in Korea during the Korean War. M-46 tanks moving on a field. Other tanks parked in the background. Mountains in the background. A man on the turret of a tank goes below. He closes the top. The tank passes through an enemy mine field. A buried mine explodes. Smoke from the explosion. The tank keeps on moving. Several M-46 tanks fording a stream. They move on an embankment and bog down. Men clear the brush and level off the embankment.
Allied officers in Korea during the Korean War. British Air Vice Marshal Cecil Arthur Bouchier who is the personal representative of British Chiefs of Staff, and William Atkin who is the General Manager of the London Daily Express News Service talking to officers at a base camp. United States Air Force Colonel Don Darrow is standing along with officers. The two visitors get into a truck to tour the camp. The visitors arriving with Colonel Darrow at a press train at Munsan. They get aboard. Mr Atkin, followed by others, coming off the train. Mr Atkin and the Air Vice Marshal walking in front of the train. They get into a vehicle and leave the area.
A bomb explodes on aircraft carrier USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) underway at sea off the coast of Korea. An aircraft takes off from the carrier. The F4U Corsair lands and a general-purpose bomb is released accidentally while landing. The bomb explodes and several men including the cameraman (Thomas McGrath) who was taking photographs are killed.
U.S. Democratic Party leader Adlai Ewing Stevenson arrives in Korea during the Korean War. A jeep parked on a field. Stevenson reviews troops. He talks to the soldiers and shakes hands with them. A tent in the background. A high altitude view of the area. Stevenson arrives at the war front in a navy airplane. He gets off the airplane and talks to an officer.
Loom weaving machine in South Korea. Shipyard building ships. South Korean workers cutting glass. Welding metal within a frame. Control panel of Korean power plant. Glass bottles moving on assembly line in bottling plant. Television manufacturing plant with close up of "Indian" SMPTE television test pattern. Refrigerator manufacture assembly line. New cars lined up outside.
A modern field hospital to receive wounded and ill prisoners from Red captivity, raised at Panmunjom in Korea. Military tents, pre-fabricated buildings, trucks and jeeps at the camp. Soldiers construct roads with heavy equipment and machinery. Barb wires put up for boundaries. Military ambulances parked in the camp area. Supplies stacked in boxes. Nursing and medical personnel at the camp. A United States Medical Department ambulance train. GIs make the beds inside the train.