Sale of a Patrol frigate to the nation of Colombia, taking place at the Pentagon in Washington DC. SECNAV (Secretary of the Navy) Dan A. Kimball and another U.S. government official has a discussion with a Colombian official. Secretary Kimball and the Colombian official at a table. They go through the sale papers. Both officials sign the papers as the third official watches. They shake hands and complete the sale.
5th and 7th Regiments of the U.S. First Marine Division in Hungnam, North Korea, with evacuation underway, during the Korean War. A United States Marine seated on crates. He opens a package, pulls out other packages which are wrapped with Christmas paper. Merchant ship standing in harbor, its deck loaded with Marines. Several other ships and boats in harbor. A tug pushes the transport from the side.
5th and 7th Regiments of the U.S. First Marine Division in Hungnam, North Korea, during the Korean War. A transport near the Hungnam pier. Empty trucks moving in dock area. Tracks running through dock. A military truck with a boat on trolley. Soldiers in some trucks. The shore, ships standing in harbor. During evacuation of Hungnam.
U.S. Marines arrive in Korea during the Korean War. Trucks arrive with men and equipment, including a road grader. Men stand at side of road and cheer as the convoy passes. Marine convoy moving along road. Mountains which contain the Chosin Reservoir in the background. Men in truck at road side wave and smile.
Wounded U.S. soldiers evacuated in Tokyo. Wounded on stretchers being removed from a United States Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster aircraft. They are placed in military ambulances. Patients in the vehicle. Several medics get into the ambulances, doors are closed. Military bus ambulance pulling out with patients. Two soldiers lift a stretcher with a wounded man. He is carried to the ramp. Two soldiers carry a wounded man on stretcher along the ramp
Demolition of the Reichstag building dome in Tiergarten, Berlin, still in it's bombed out state following World War 2. Incendiaries start to burn and dome falls to ground. Writing on main entrance to the Reichstag. People look at the rubble of the tower laying on the crumbled floor of the Reichstag. The sky through the hole in the ceiling. People stand along sides of streets, some seated on their bicycles. Brandenburg Gate in the background. German policemen look at the Reichstag dome through binoculars. A U.S. Air Force airman standing with them. View of the dome from between the head of the airman and German officer. American airman looks through binoculars. The incendiaries start to burn. Flames as the dome catches fire during demolition process.
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