The Battle of Taejon in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. vehicles and troops on the streets of Taejon. Damage and ruins in Taejon. U.S. troops engage in rear-guard street fighting in the ruins as North Korean forces continue to advance. U.S. tanks advance to take up positions on a hilly terrain. The troops fire guns. Smoke rises from explosions. Engineers lay rocks on a stream bed north of Taejon to facilitate crossing of light vehicles. Jeeps cross the stream.
A World War II training film titled 'First Aid for Gas Casualties' based on U.S. soldiers being treated for exposure to various gases during a war. Soldiers marching on a road, advancing across country, moving through dugouts and heavily wooded sections in the United States. Use of various gases in chemical warfare shows an aircraft releasing mustard gas, detonation of a phosgene bomb, use of hand grenade for tear gas and white phosphorous explosions. A casualty is treated at a hospital. A group of soldiers is attacked by mustard gas released over them by an aircraft. The soldiers run and put on masks. They rub protective ointment over unprotected parts of body.
U.S. forces occupy abandoned Japanese outpost on Kiska, Aleutian Islands, Alaska during World War II. An American soldier samples Japanese rice ration and another drinks a bottle of Japanese beer. Maj. Gen. Charles H. Corlett, Commander of Amphibious Force 9, Lt. Gen. John L. Dewitt Commander of Western Defense Command, and Assistant Secretary of War, John J. McCloy, inspect the island. Heavy construction equipment and supplies unloaded at the beach. U.S. Army engineers commence building a U.S. base on Kiska. Soldiers hold a Japanese flag.
Film opens showing animated map of Pacific and avenue of attack against Japan via the Aleutian Islands in World War 2. . Scene shifts to the Aleutian Islands, where American P-47 aircraft are seen parked on an open ramp in severe winter weather. Next, American Army truck convoys are seen traversing subarctic Canada on the Alcan highway, with supplies to sustain U.S. forces in the Aleutians. U.S. soldiers and airmen are seen obtaining various items and playing volleyball on a ramp at an airbase. Fog shrouds the Aleutians keeping aircraft grounded. Soldiers look at maps and plan targets. Aircrews are briefed about their mission and targets. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers fly in formation over snow-covered peaks. View looking down on a B-24 headed toward Japan. Airmen in a headquarters plotting the disposition of aircraft reporting to them by radio. View above thick clouds with nothing in sight. (But exploding bombs are heard.) (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
Scientific instruments used for weather forecast. Thermometers used to record maximum and minimum temperatures. A man notes down the temperatures. Wet and dry bulbs of thermometers used to record humidity level.
Camera shows close up of two certificates of affidavit signed by Lieutenant Colonel George Stevens and Lieutenant Kellogg. The first affidavit by U.S. Army Signal Corps Colonel Stevens cites Stevens' work from 1 March 1945 to 8 May 1945 photographing concentration camps and prison camps liberated by Allied forces. It is read aloud by George Stevens (or by a narrator reading the text of the affadavit). The second affidavit, signed by U.S. Navy Lieutenant E.R. Kellogg, and witnessed by Captain John Ford, is also read aloud. It cites Kellogg's expertise in motion picture and photographic techniques through his employment with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in California from 1929 to 1941. He attests that he has thoroughly examined the concentration camp liberation films of the Army Signal Corps and found them to be unaltered, genuine, and true copies of the originals in the U.S. Army Signal Corps vaults. A map shows the location of concentration camps in Germany and other parts of occupied Europe under Nazi control. (World War II period).
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