Operation of a U.S. Army Combat Team from the Eighth United States Army (EUSA) during the Korean War. Infantry soldiers walk through rocky mountains carrying guns. Soldiers look through binoculars at observation posts and relay targeting information to artillery. U.S. Army artillery firing on enemy positions. Infantry dug in on a trench line. U.S. Army grasshopper observation aircraft in the sky scouting out target sites. Views of artillery being loaded, aimed, and fired, including by a group of African American soldiers. Tanks and infantry on the move together as an Armored Infantry Unit. Narrator discusses relationship between infantry troops and tanks and how they work together as a team. Mortar units aiming and firing. At an airfield, weapons are loaded onto planes including P-51 Mustang aircraft and jets. Planes being fueled. 5 inch rockets and 50 caliber machine guns are loaded, along with Napalm and demolition bombs. View of pilots in combat briefing and then exiting briefing to fly mission. P-51 Mustangs taking off from airfield. Mustang fighters in the air and views of Mustangs firing on enemy positions with guns and bombs. Air-Ground Liaison Team shown in a jeep on the ground providing targeting information to planes via radio.
U.S. Combat Engineers with the help of local people make tramway in Korea during Korean War. U.S. Army soldiers drill through rocks in order to make tramway. Combat engineers and local people hold wires and make tramway. Goods transport on the wooden slabs through the tramway. Soldier talks over radio. Army aircraft drop equipped paratroopers on the field. Soldiers check and load parachutes and other war artillery and equipment being loaded onto aircraft. U.S. soldiers gather at airfield for short briefing before take off. Soldiers climb in C-119 boxcar and fly towards war area. View of pilot in cockpit of C-119 Boxcar aircraft and closeup of Jump Signal light. View of paratroopers jumping from aircraft and parachutes heading toward ground.
Narrated feature describing first 50 days of U.S. Army troops fighting in the Korean War. U.S. Army soldiers from the 24th Division. Views of soldiers climbing mountains and looking through binoculars. Soldiers walk through rice paddy field and cover themselves and their weapons in natural camouflage. Soldiers dug in. Soldiers rest, splashing water from a pond, sleeping and resting on the ground. Soldier removes his shoes and massages his foot. Soldier sleeps on the ground and others dig foxholes. South Korean workers carrying ammunition and supplies for U.S. Army. South Korean refugees evacuating on foot. Army soldiers catch some North Korean communists among the refugees. Army soldier guarding North Korean prisoners with hands behind their heads. United Nations officer with UN armband examines prisoners.
Narrated feature on experiences of U.S. Army soldiers from 24th Regiment during first 50 days of Korean War. Loading and firing heavy artillery. General Walters and General Dean in a planning meeting together. View of ship port with supplies being loaded for transport to the front, including tanks, jeeps. U.S. Army reinforcement soldiers gathered on vehicles awaiting loading. Loading and unloading ships, over temporary bridges and through shallow water. A Field Artillery Batallion stacking shells, loading shells, and firing heavy artillery. Soldiers communicating on radio from the front. Explosion of a bridge over the Kom River by U.S. Army forces after crossing it. Black smoke rising after explosion. Army truck on fire. Thick smoke in air. Wounded on stretchers being loaded into trucks, unloaded from trucks, and placed into waiting airplane with banner on tail reading "Pacific Division".
U.S. Army troops of 179th Infantry entering village at Ponte Barizzo, Salerno, Italy, during World War 2. Some ride in a DUKW amphibious vehicle, and a few trucks are seen. But most soldiers simply walk through the area. An officer in a parked jeep watches as the troops move past. Soldiers hoist one of two captured German Panzer III Ausf L Flamethrower tanks with a U.S. tank recovery truck, and haul it away. Tank has unusual '2 squared' marking - vehicle number is raised above platoon number. A U.S. Army soldier, standing in the turret, steers the German tank as it is being towed. Elements (not seen) of the 753rd Tank Battalion and 645th Tank Destroyer Battalion were also engaged in this operation. (Note: Location has been identified as the intersection of SP11a and SP 278 east of the Sele River.) (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
'Highlights of the War' depicts work by combat cameramen that has been honored with citations for outstanding photography. 'The Coast Guard at War' depicts the work of combat cameramen on the U.S. Coast Guard. U.S. Coast Guard Arctic Patrol. CG personnel aboard a cutter. Deck gun and the U.S. flag. A sailor communicates over the radio. Sailors on deck, the bow and deck. Combat cameramen record the CG activities including a religious ceremony. Sicily Invasion, 1943: Combat cameramen capture the scene as a German bomb hits an ammunition ship off the coast. Explosion on the ship, a mushroom cloud rises up. Sailors watch with binoculars. Normandy, 1944: Allied troops climb down rope ladders into Landing Craft Personnel (LCP). which deliver the men and cargo to the Normandy beaches. Soldiers wade through the water towards the shore under enemy fire.
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