5th and 7th Regiments of the U.S. First Marine Division evacuating Hungnam, North Korea, during the Korean War. A United States Navy destroyer at the Hungnam pier. View of the docks from water. U.S. soldiers load their gear from trucks to LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized). A tank coming into pier area. Soldiers seated atop the tank. The tank followed by some vehicles in pier area. A sign board in the background.
U.S. Marines retreat in the Chosin Reservoir, Korea, during the Korean War. Marines help wounded comrades to a U.S. plane. Plane taxis on airstrip. Marines run towards a Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber which has crash-landed. The plane tilted on its nose. Marines around the plane.
A U.S. military convoy of jeeps on a road. Soldiers seated in the jeeps. The soldiers are flagged down by Military Police (MP) in a jeep. The two jeeps stop at a barricade. They approach a shack coffee shop called Uncle Dan's Doughnuts run by the MPs. Sign boards reads 'Stag Night Tonight' and 'Unescorted ladies not Permitted'. MPs and a soldier stand and drink coffee and eat doughnuts outside the shack. The soldiers talk. Sign boards read 'Mud and straw houses for sale'. The soldier reads signs about 'Turkey Sandwiches', 'Formal Dance' and 'Military Abbreviations' put up at the coffee shop. The U.S. Army soldiers get into their jeep and leave.
The "Punchbowl" summit being resupplied after it was scaled and captured by the U.S. Army 2nd Division in Korea, during the Korean War. Scenes from late 1951 or early 1952. A convoy of jeeps and trucks on the road. The trucks are loaded with supplies and soldiers. Soldiers on trucks unload rations, ammunition and barbed wire supplies. They pass the boxes onto the human assembly line of South Korean soldiers. The South Koreans begin their ascend on the stairway built by the 13th engineers. They climb uphill with the supplies tied onto their backs. Supplies are loaded onto cars that take them further uphill by the tramway built by the U.S. military engineers. Soldier operates the tramway and sends the car uphill. Soldiers receive the supplies on the hill top. A wounded soldier brought on stretcher to the tramway. He is lifted onto the car. A soldier operates the pulley car downhill. Message sent on radio. Soldiers receive the wounded. He is lifted and taken downhill. Signal sent to bring in a H-13 Sioux helicopter. The helicopter lands, wounded soldier is strapped in, and it takes off. It lands at the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital 8209 AU. Soldier on stretcher is shifted from helicopter into a military ambulance.
Byrd Expedition Explorers at camp site in Antarctica. Man near a telescope on stand. man looks through the telescope and adjusts the view. A man plots a route using a compass on a map. Men walk across the snow to a point and mark it with a U.S. flag. A map shows the route between Little America and the South Pole. Men on dog sledges move across the terrain. Snow covered mountains in the background. Men walk up to a monument made up of a pile of stones, dedicated to explorers who reached this point in the past. They take off their hats as a sign of respect. A man takes out cans from this pile. The cans contain notes from various explorers. They read a note dated 14-16 December 1911, written by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He puts the note back into the can, closes it and replaces the same into the monument.
Byrd Expedition Explorers at camp site in Antarctica. Man near a telescope on stand. man looks through the telescope and adjusts the view. A man plots a route using a compass on a map. Men walk across the snow to a point and mark it with a U.S. flag. A map shows the route between Little America and the South Pole. Men on dog sledges move across the terrain. Snow covered mountains in the background. Men walk up to a monument made up of a pile of stones, dedicated to explorers who reached this point in the past. They take off their hats as a sign of respect. A man takes out cans from this pile. The cans contain notes from various explorers. They read a note dated 6-7 January 1912. December 1911, written by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He puts the note back into the can, closes it and replaces the same into the monument.
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