Narrated feature on U.S. Army activities during the war in Korea. Focus on the United States Eigth Army. Newspaper cutting in background stating the involvement of UN Forces and U.S. Combat Team in war. 8th Army soldiers hold rifles and move forward. Narrator describes operation of the Army Combat Team starting with the Infantry, and supported by tanks, artillery, and aircraft. Various heavy artillery and tanks are also shown. Close up view of Soviet Russian soldiers marching in Red Square, Moscow, during a parade. U.S. Army soldiers are shown in battle in Korea, including in cold conditions on snow covered ground. Rapid sequence of images of various weaponry in action including flame throwers, M1 Garand rifle, Browning Automatic rifle, machine guns, bazookas, mortar (being fired by African American soldier), recoilless rifles.
Brief view of Soviet troops marching in Red Square. Cut to the signing ceremonies for the North Atlantic Treaty, which created The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO. Representatives from the various signing countries seated at the assembly. A view of the flags of the participating nations. Two officials signing the treaty document while the other representatives look on: Mr Paul-Henri Spaak (Minister of Foreign Affairs) signing on behalf of Belgium; and then another official.
A car arrives at the White House in Washington DC. President Harry S. Truman greets President of Mexico, Miguel Aleman, during state visit of Mexican President to Washington DC on April 29, 1947. Next scene shows President Truman being presented a Jewish Torah by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first President of the newly declared State of Israel. Exterior view of south side of White House. Truman with Secretary of State, George Marshall, by the fireplace inside the White House. They discuss world affairs looking at a globe. An animated map shows the increasing Soviet Communist influence in Europe. April 3, 1948, President Truman signs the European Recovery Program (ERP), better know as the Marshall Plan, as members of Congressional leadership look on. Sacks of grain being off loaded at a dock in Italy, as part of Marshall Plan aid. Scene shifts to October 6, 1948 with crowd gathered outside the Democratic Convention at Convention Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Convention delegates applaud during President Truman's address. Officials on stage. Truman talks about his sincere desire to promote peace throughout the world. Pictures of Franklin Roosevelt and Alben Barkley on stage. Exterior view of north side of the White House. Truman seated at a table.
Soviet newsreel with Korean narration. Participants attend a communist peace meeting in Budapest, Hungary. Marchers carrying banners, pictures and torches. An elderly woman holds a torch. Young women wearing headscarves attend the gathering. Sign in Hungarian reads “Long live Stalin, the great friend of the Hungarian people”. Representatives from different nations in Asia, Europe, Africa and Americas took part in the meeting. Women speakers addressing the meeting.
The Berlin Airlift to sustain the city of Berlin during a Soviet blockade in the Cold War, following World War 2. Sign on airport building reads: "U.S. Air Force Station, Tempelhof, European Air Transport Service." A C-47 aircraft is seen being offloaded. A C-47 tazis past the camera. Others are seen parked. Scene shifts to a truck pulled up next to a C-54 transport plane being unloaded. A C-54 aircraft inflight overhead. German workmen unloading a C-54 into a truck. Men inside the aircraft roll sacks of coal down a slide to the men in the truck. Glimpse from inside the aircraft of coal sacks being placed on the chute and sliding to the truck bed. Some loose coal is scattered near the bottom of the chute. View of offloading operations from another C-54 aircraft. In this case, the cargo includes boxes and canvas bags. A truck backed up right against a C-47 aircraft to unload it. View of the terminal building in background. U.S. airmen unloading cargo from the doorway of a C-47. View inside where workers form a chain to pass parcels toward the door for unloading. Interior of a C-54 aircraft where a large pallet of cargo is seen on the floor. Men remove netting from the pallet. Glimpse from the rear of a British 4-engine Handley Page bomber aircraft being unloaded. A truck backing up to a parked C-47 aircraft. Cargo of Cartons and tins. One box contains a label reading: " J. & A. Kraus. Leberwurst." Other cargo includes wooden boxes. Final scene is a truck backing up to a parked British Handley Page bomber.
World War 2 displaced Russian people gets off of railroad trains which are decorated with greenery and large pictures of Stalin. Russian men, women with their children and luggage waiting and relaxing on railway station. Two United States Army soldiers in conversation with a Russian woman holding an infant in her lap. Russians in an open field, relaxing and waiting for transportation to homeland. Soviet soldiers are also among the group.
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