U.S. forces on the move to encircle the Iron Triangle, and blast the enemy from the hilltops during the Korean War. The first scene shows a U.S. Sherman tank carrying about 15 American infantrymen who occupy every possible space atop the tank. It is followed by a Patton tank, also covered with American infantry getting a ride. Fuzzy view of a tank in field with traces of snow. U.S. gun crew firing a towed field howitzer. Closeup of American Lieutenant commanding artillery. He is using a field telephone. Another crew firing a mortar. Shells exploding on the hilltops. U.S. soldiers observing with binoculars from a bunker. Numerous explosions of many kinds of ordnance in the hills. Soldier firing a 30-caliber Browning air-cooled machine gun. Another American soldier firing a sub-machine gun. Other infantrymen firing fully automatic rifles. A U.S. Air Force F-51 Mustang fighter plane drops napalm on a target. Another Mustang fighter dives low to fire rockets and strafe an enemy position. Many more views of American artillery, tanks, and machine guns firing at the hills. Infantry move uphill to occupy the hilltops. Two are seen carrying flame throwers. As the infantry enter woods on a hillside, a flamethrower is employed. Troops in a sandbagged position in a town. Sick and wounded Korean civilians lie on litters in a paved area from where they are being placed into trucks.
Peaceful scenes of pre-war England, showing a church with sheep grazing on its lawn, and a college building with ivy growing on the walls. In contrast, explosion and results of German bombing is shown, with buildings collapsing and ruined from the German blitz over England. A long line of Chinese soldiers marching along the Great Wall of china. Shadows of three Japanese bombers flying over Chinese landscape. On May 4, 1942, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek decorates American fliers who made the first attack on Tokyo in World War 2. Wearing a Chinese decoration around his neck, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led that raid by U.S. B-25 bombers from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, poses with Madame Chiang and others of his group. Scenes of Moscow, Soviet Russia, including a T-70 light tank moving rapidly along a city street. A Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber taking off in a snow storm. U.S. troops on a halftrack in North Africa. British artillerymen firing a 25 pounder in the desert. Glimpses of smoke rising from enemy strikes at cities in England, Russia, and China. Scenes of destruction from bombing. Brief street scenes of unharmed and intact towns and cities in the United States, including brief New York City scene of pedestrians and traffic in Times Square. Defense workers in America going to work at Ranger Aircraft Engines factory (later part of Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation), and a star flag showing war service by worker families. Farmers in Western U.S. harvesting grain. Railroad trains and river barges carrying harvest from U.S. farms. Herds of cattle and sheep being raised for the war effort in Western U.S. Aerial view of orchards and farms in America. A mining bucket filled with iron ore. Barge carrying the ore. A steel mill in operation. Scrap iron being recycled. View from production floor of U.S. bomber aircraft being built in a defense plant. Countless freight cars in a railroad marshaling yard at a port, where a tug boat and a freighter are seen in the water. War materiel piled up at the port. A convoy of supply ships underway.
The U.S. 10th Army advances during the Battle of Okinawa in Japan. U.S. Army soldiers gather at a rocky hillside in Okinawa. The soldiers with guns and ammunitions walk along the hillside. The troops attack caves. A Japanese boy watches the army procession. Smoke bombs are used to drive away women and children. Japanese families move to relocation camps. Army tanks carrying Marines move on rocky land to seize a village. U.S. Army soldiers inspect their guns and ammunitions. A Japanese suicide rocket bomb is described and disassembled. Two soldiers inspect a bomb launcher. A bomb is released from the launcher. Explosions and gun fire on the hillside. U.S. troops move ahead as the village is set on fire. Military tanks advance and fire. Explosions in the forest area. One of the Japanese survivors comes out of a cave. U.S. officers order for his clothes to be removed and first aid to be given. A soldier lies down and gets ready with his gun. A corpse on a rocky land. A soldier walks across the corpse. (World War II period).
Concentration camp scenes used in evidence during post-war World War 2 prosecution of Nazi war criminals. A Nazi concentration camp. U.S. troops standing outside a building. Medics treat and carry emaciated prisoners from a camp. A U.S. Naval officer, prisoner at a camp, is interviewed. He speaks about execution of U.S. prisoners of war and describes various atrocities and means used to kill prisoners. Man shows a club with barbed wire on it used to beat prisoners. View of dead bodies of prisoners in rail car under layer of snow. Dead bodies of people piled up on the ground.
Preparations made for prosecution of war criminals following World War 2. Exterior of building of U.S. Supreme Court. 'Equal Justice Under Law' written on building. Animation shows three types of trials. The first kind is the one in which the criminals are returned to the countries they betrayed. Minister-President of Norway Vidkun Quisling being tried in Norway. The second kind is one in which the criminals who committed crimes in specific localities are on trial in those countries. Germans being tried in a country. Offenders charged with killing U.S. soldiers are tried by American Army Corps. An officer speaks about the trials. A chart depicts kinds of trials. The National Traitor Trials, the Local Minor Trials, the U.S. Military Trials and the Trials of the Major War Criminals conducted by the International Military Tribunal. View of Hitler and Nazi leadership walking up aisle in crowded building with German soldiers and officers on either side saluting. Rudolf Hess delivering a speech and shouting emphatically, followed by views of other German leaders (later Nuremberg defendents) delivering speeches. Goebbels in dress uniform. U.S. Justice Robert H Jackson, being appointed by President Truman for the U.S. as Chief of Counsel for the tribunals, and also General William J. Donovan. Tribunal legal staff in front of U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport Service terminal at Washington National Airport, and then boarding a DC-4 aircraft. DC-4 takes off, with the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial seen in the background. Mussolini addressing a crowd from an elevated balcony. View of book Mein Kampf with image of Adolf Hitler on front cover. German SS Schutzstaffel division marching in formation on a German street. Josef Kramer under armed guard, after being captured in his role as Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. SS Commander Heinrich Himmler talking to a German officer. Dead Concentration Camp victim and living camp victims beside barb wire (Buchenwald).
American strike over Japanese forces in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle of Cape Engano (part of Battle of Leyte Gulf) in World War II. U.S. Navy Fleet Admiral William Halsey Jr. who is the Commander of U.S. Third Fleet writes a message for Commander of 7th Fleet Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid. An officer studies a map. Animation depicts the course taken by Task Force 38. Animation depicts night radar search made by American forces and detection of an enemy ship. A ship underway in the Pacific Ocean. Animation depicts the movement of Task Force 38 and Task Force 34. A U.S. night search airplane lands due to engine problems. An aircraft in flight. Bombs being carried on tow dollies. Bombs being loaded in aircraft. The aircraft take off from an carrier. A man gives a signal. U.S. aircraft in flight. Admiral William Halsey, Jr with others stands on the ship deck. Animation depicts contact of the Commander of the 3rd Fleet with the Commander of the 7th Fleet and the change in course of enemy movement. Japanese ships underway in the Pacific Ocean. U.S. aircraft launch an attack on the Japanese ships. Aircraft drop bombs on the ships. An aircraft catches fire and plunges in water. A strike coordinator in an aircraft. Animation depicts Japanese ships being bombed and damaged. Japanese aircraft carriers Zuiho and Zuikaku are attacked by American forces. U.S. aircraft drop torpedoes on Japanese ships. Japanese fighter aircraft shot down. Animation depicts American air attack on Japanese ships.
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