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Lieutenant General James Van Fleet, assumes command of the Eighth Army in Korea, after General Douglas MacArthur is relieved of command by President Harry Truman

Opening scene shows a sign identifying the 38th Parallel separating North from South Korea. Refugees with their few belongings walk from North Korea to South Korea. A U.S. Patton tank is seen next, followed by another. Closeup of treads on a Patton tank, raising dust as it passes. Another Patton heading toward the camera, with a crewman waving. A Cessna L-19 Bird Dog, aircraft, marked with three stars, arrives, carrying the new Commander of the Eight Army, Lieutenant General James Van Fleet. He climbs out of the airplane and shakes hands with a Brigadier General. Standing behind him is Air Force Lieutenant General Earle E. Partridge, commander of the 5th Air Force. A jeep carrying General Van Fleet turns in from a dirt road. A sign reads "56th Regiment, Message Center." Lieutenant General Van Fleet, climbs out of the front right seat of the jeep. He is wearing a pair of pearl handled side arms. U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Partridge is seated in the back seat of the jeep and jumps out behind Van Fleet. View of explosion in distant hills, part of the initial barrage in advance of the next United Nations offensive. Sounds of aircraft and artillery are heard. American infantry are seen moving forward. Narrator notes that numerous Chinese troops were in the hills around the Chosin reservoir and they were committed in vast numbers against the UN forces. UN infantry moving through forests and mist. large numbers of Chinese prisoners of war are seen walking along a dirt road.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061708
"Operation Firestop" experiments in aerial firefighting. Various aircraft used in firefighting.

World War II scenes of German Stuka dive bombers in operation. U.S. B-25 bomber in flight, and views of firestorms from Allied incendiary bombing of Axis targets. Scenes of the "Operation Firestop" project in 1954-55, in California. U.S. Forest Service and other agencies cooperate in a one-year project headquartered at Camp Pendleton, California. Aerial views of Camp Pendleton area, in Southern California. A modified Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber in flight discharges water from its torpedo bays. Men installing fabric water container into the bomb bay of the TBM. The aircraft seen in low level pass, dropping water contents onto field. Cropduster pilot Floyd Nolta, seen flying his Stearman biplane over California landscape, and then taxiing in to park, after landing. On the ground, we see how he modified his airplane to release water from a hopper in its bottom. On August 13, Vance Nolta flies the Stearman on multiple sorties, dropping water on a fire in the Mendecino Forest. Nolta filling his water tank from a hose at Willow Airport, and dropping water from the air, above the fire. View at Willow Airport, of 7 Stearman and N3N airplanes modified for aerial firefighting. Views of these aircraft dropping chemically treated water from the air. TBM aircraft equipped with 400 gallon tanks drop water from the air. PBY flying boat seen in flight. A B-26 bomber passing low and dropping chemically treated water. A Navy Mars flying boat passing overhead as it drops water from a 7000 gallon tank.

Date: 1955
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058692
'Korea Revisited' shows start of Korean War including Seoul street fighting

Graphic Korean children zooms to 'Korea Revisited' title. Wide shot of Korean countryside. June 25, 1950 North Korean troops attacking across to start Korean war. Dramatization depicting South Korean soldier hit by bullet. South Korean soldiers retreating from war front. American soldiers fighting at start of Korean war. Australian soldier on patrol. Howitzers being fired. Train carrying Chinese troops moving towards war front. Chinese troops in trenches and advancing. Mortar firing. Chinese troops advancing in snow. Street fighting in Seoul, South Korea.

Date: 1950, June 25
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078896
Park Hyun Young gives speech on the maltreatment of the South Koreans by USA.

Park Hyun Young gives speech on the maltreatment of the South Koreans by USA in an assemblage. South Korean flags on the wall behind the podium.The attendees listen to the speech attentively.An animated map shows American section of Korea. Starving men,women and children in the American section of korea.Scenes of South Korean protesting and damaged Korean factories.Approximately 1948.

Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Korean
Clip: 65675028816
Lt General Ridgway and UN officials stand as flag of United Nations is hoisted for ceremony at UN Memorial Park Cemetery

Representatives of United Nations countries who fought in Korea, gather for a ceremony at the UN Memorial Park cemetery in Pusan, South Korea. Flags of various countries include Great Britain, France, and South Korea. United Nations flag . Military Officers and officials stand at the cemetery. Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway, of the United States leads the activities. Flag of United Nations being hoisted. Troops and officers stand at attention. Flowers placed on graves. Flag of India, Pakistan, France, United Nations and various countries.

Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045128
Life in a section of the South Bronx, New York City

A Wednesday afternoon in the South Bronx, New York City. Camera pans down front of an apartment building on Crimmins Avenue, in the South Bronx, where people are sitting on the apartment house steps, watching men playing stick ball in the street. A 1954 Oldsmobile car turns into the street, keeping to the left to avoid interfering with the ball game. Closeups of players. One tries to take the stick of another. Players watch as a ball, hit high on a building, bounces its way down. A left-handed batter gets set, with a cigarette in his mouth. View down the Avenue. Two men walk along an apartment building roof. A dog walks past a pile of trash. Men seated alone, one backwards on a chair; another on a fire escape; one on a park bench; one in a doorway; and another on a box in front of a store. Two small boys sitting with their shoeshine boxes. Boys playing with a frisbee and two playing catch with a baseball on East 139th Street between Cypress and St. Ann's Avenues. Youth wearing sleeveless sweatshirt painted with picture of a skull and words:"Cara Gons," on it. Police officer in a patrol car parked at a curb. Another patrol car (at 2:48) driving west along 149th street at Bergen Avenue. A young man wearing a sweatshirt with "Latin Crowns" written on it, goes down some steps and through doorway into a building. Another "Latin Crowns" is worn by a youth doing pullups on bottom of fire escape, outside. A boy swings on the same bar. Several youths start to tussle and an older one steps in to break it up.

Date: 1965
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020824