U.S. Army Advisors training Republic of Korea soldiers at a training facility operated by the Korea Military Advisory Group. They train with machine guns; learn tactics for movement in battlefield; how to crawl with straw camouflage. They fire rifles on a firing range. They crawl under barbed wire at an infiltration course. Smoke and explosions add realism to the training. General Paik Sun-yup of the Republic of Korea, observes the training activity.
Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman visits U.S. troops in Korea during Korean War. A sanctuary is set up under a large tent. The Archbishop, dressed in Army gear, conveys greetings to large group of soldiers gathered before the tent. Soldiers line up to kiss Archbishop's ring. Several women in uniform are among those meeting the Cardinal. Photographers take pictures. Cardinal Spellman, wearing traditional clerical vestments, conducts mass and administers the sacrament of holy communion to numerous soldiers.
Members of a USO troupe at Seoul Airport (K-16), Korea, including a number of women. They descend stairs from a Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C-121 aircraft, tail number 8817. They mingle with U.S. airmen on the ramp and pose for pictures with them. Several pose on top of a set of stairs showing the 5th Air Force logo and the words: 6167th Air Base Group.
American Locomotive Company tank manufacturing plant, Schenectady, New York. Operator climbs down from a parked U.S. M47 Patton tank. An operator demonstrates the ability to rotate the gun turret of a tank. View from behind open top hatch of an M47 Patton tank in motion. Crewman occupies the top hatch and a pennant is visible reading: 6 ALCO. An M47 tank drives slowly through a tread-deep water obstacle, and spins about upon exiting.
German troops surrendering to Americans at Tangermünde, Germany, at the end of World War 2. German soldiers place their rifles onto a heap as they clamber through debris of a damaged bridge, crossing from Soviet-occupied area on the East side of the Elbe River, to surrender to Americans on the West bank, in Tangermunde, Germany. View of a huge stack of German army rifles. German soldiers walking across the partially destroyed bridge, that can only handle a single line of pedestrians. On the West bank, a solitary Soviet soldier has taken it upon himself, to curse and kick at German soldiers, as they pass where he is standing. Many of the German soldiers, avoid his kicks. None really pay any attention to him, as they hurry past. U.S. soldiers nearby pay little attention to his pranks. A sign nearby reads: "Das Verdanken wir unserem Fuhrer 405th Infantry." Smoke rises from the East bank. Scene shifts to more German soldiers, stacking arms on the pile of rifles, as they walk onto the bridge. Back on the West bank, the Russian soldier continues his antics.
Footage of cold war defense simulation exercise: Airmen post information on displays in a Command Post of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC). View of senior officers in upper tier of NORAD Headquarters Command Center or War Room in Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. Duty officers communicate by telephone. SAC B-47, B-52, and B-58 bombers are ordered to take off. Command Post duty officer reports to a General. Red telephone (rotary type) on the General's desk. (NORAD is North American Aerospace Defense Command).
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