Paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team are dropped by C-119 and C-46 aircraft of the 403rd Troop Carrier Wing onto a field near K-2 (Taegu), during the Korean War. The sky is filled with descending parachutes. Views from the ground as troopers land, gather their gear, and walk away. A second wave of troopers dropping from C-46 aircraft. Closeup of one trooper removing his flotation vest and helmet as he organizes his personal gear after landing.
Opening slate of August 1950 newsreel refers to Seesaw battle on beachhead. It shows several U.S. soldiers manning a 105mm howitzer field piece on sandy ground beside a steep hill. A small American flag marks their position. Scene shifts to a bivouac area of large tents and vehicles on flat ground. A body of water and higher ground is seen in the background. Next, an American flag flutters in the breeze, on a makeshift flagpole, atop a hill, where several soldiers are maintaining a lookout. A large radio antenna is installed on the hill. Back down on the flat land, American troops are breaking camp, pulling down the large tents. At Pohang Air Base (K-3) American troops are pulling down tents and packing up to leave. A C-46 transport plane sits nearby and a C-47 transport is in the background. Troops burn papers in 55-gallon drums. Troops load Army trucks with tents and equipment. Aerial glimpse of the area showing high hills surrounding it. View from a farm field where farmers are working, as four USAF F-80C jet fighter planes take off from the nearby airfield. View from aircraft flying above, as an F-80 attacks a ground target. Gun camera view of American aircraft strafing an installation at the base of a mountain. Explosions from striking rounds. Pilot pulls up abruptly to avoid the mountain. Gun camera view of rockets being fired from attacking aircraft on lines of communication, including rail and port facilities. Fires and smoke from the attacks. A strafing attack against a moving railroad train. The aircraft passes through heavy black smoke as the pilot breaks off the attack. Two views from aircraft making low passes over a major fire at a port facility. Both times the aircraft barely skirts heavy billowing black clouds. A line of white smoke arising from ground targets. Change of scene to the beach area shown at opening of the film, where an American gun crew is firing an M-101 105mm howitzer field piece, viewed from several angles. Change of scene shows U.S. troops working their way carefully along a mountain road in the Pusan Perimeter. Two soldiers run back from the front of the column. Troops pausing while staying close to the mountainside. Suddenly, a shell bursts just a short distance fron them, raising dense black smoke. Soldiers run across the road to seek protection close to the mountain. American soldiers moving carefully behind a parked M8 light armored car. Various vies of American soldiers operating in the mountainous area. Glimpse of fallen North Korean soldiers in the brush and foliage. American troops display a captured North Korean flag. South Korean soldiers on sentry duty outside fortified compound. Armed South Korean soldiers escort two ambulatory wounded North Korean prisoners. Wounded American soldier on a stretcher, being removed from a Sikorsky H-5 helicopter, at an airfield and being carried toward the aircraft flight line.
General Ridgway in his office in Tokyo receives a reply from communists suggesting the meeting place of the truce talks as Kaesong. View of the damage due to Korean war. Ruin factory building. United Nations peace keeper on guard at his post.
Third Winter Campaign of the Korean War. United States Army artillery crew fires heavy gun. A soldier watches enemies' action through binoculars. Another soldier stands nearby. U.S. soldiers patrol in snow covered area. Hot food is brought to the American troops at the front, where one soldier sits on a snow mound to eat.
Shows various activities and shops inside a Korean farmers market. Korean farmers bring in sacks of grains loaded on bullock carts.Grain-sacks being unloaded and then distributed. Fish is unloaded and displayed in a fish shop. View of a pottery and cloth shop. Bundles of cloth at display in the shop. Approximately 1947.
Shows part from a documentary titled "Korean Farming - An Oriental Epic' presented by the Harmon Foundation. Depicts Korean rice farming and a Korean peasant's life. Opening of the reel shows a huge statue of Lord Buddha. Shows a Korean rice farmer Kim,his wife washing clothes at river bed,his young son and their Asiatic bull Abdul. A high altitude view of Kim's village and scattered paddy farms. Korean farmers adopt intensive methods of farming like Contour-Mapping. Individual holdings are small.