Focuses on Korean War (1950-1953). U.S. personnel load C-47 aircraft with boxes containing leaflets. These leaflets are to be dropped over North Korean territories to counter enemy propaganda. Boxes stacked aboard C-47. Headline on leaflet reads 'SAFE CONDUCT PASS'. Men drop packets from aircraft in flight over North Korean territories.
Focuses on Korean War (1950-1953). U.S. personnel around F4U Corsair airplanes parked on flight deck of carrier. Rockets transferred on deck. Words written on bomb read 'Listen To This! It Will Kill You'. Men manning aircraft. Planes with folded wings warm up on flight deck. Rockets under wings of planes. Man signals plane for take off. Planes taxi for take off. Gun camera sighting point shows targets on ground attacked. Carrier aircraft strafing run over enemy positions.
The beginning of the Korean War with the invasion of South Korea by North Korean troops. ROK (Republic of Korea) troops in trenches and at sandbagged positions on the 38th Parallel. John Foster Dulles, Consultant to the U.S. Secretary of State, visits the front areas and converses with an officer at a map. Dulles standing with ROK (Republic of Korea) troops. South Korean refugees fleeing. United Nations Security Council's meeting in progress. The empty chair of the delegate from the Soviet Union. Secretary General of the United Nations Trygve Lie speaks. The Security Council passes a resolution calling for cease fire.
Focuses on Korean War (1950-1953). Marines and U.S. seventh division advance in Seoul under enemy fire. U.S. troops combat enemy in streets of Seoul. Troops take cover behind sand sacks. Troops fire rifles. Tanks advance through heavy smoke in streets. Smoke arises from explosions. Soldiers relax after five days battle with enemy. Soldier talks into radio. Soldier holds a paper cutting. Headlines read 'Marines enter Seoul, Fight Reds In Streets'.
LSTs 742 and 869 seen discharging tanks and other vehicles 35 miles North of Pusan, South Korea, in , 1950. Reinforcement troops wade ashore from landing craft. A column of North Korean prisoners is marched, under guard, along a road. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur is greeted by officers as he steps from an airplane. He boards a jeep. View from an airplane flying over the area. It flies above and behind a B-26 as it fires an air-to-ground weapon that explodes in a ball of fire on the ground.
Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson gives a speech in Washington D.C., United States. Johnson stands at microphone. Trees in the background. Johnson speaks on the Korean War situation very early in the war. He talks about the development of a force in South Korea to ensure the security of the country in the face of attack from North Korea and from possible other countries assisting North Korea.