A Russian (Mikoyan Gurevich) MiG-15 Jet fighter plane is chased and attacked by a U.S. aircraft during the Korean War. A Russian MiG-15 Jet fighter plane in flight leaves a vapor trail. The Soviet MiG aircraft in silhouette. Many tracers fired toward the plane in aerial dogfight. U.S. aircraft chases the MIG Jet fighter. It pulls out from a dive. Rugged terrain in background..
A Soviet Russian (Mikoyan Gurevich) MiG-15 Jet fighter aircraft is shot down during the Korean War by a U.S. aircraft in aerial dogfight. The Russian Jet fighter plane in flight and a chase plane comes up to MiG's tail. The MiG-15 is hit and explodes. Aircraft flies up on MiG's exhaust and flurry of tracers is seen. The MiG leaves behind a trail of smoke. The MiG-15 in flight. Many round fired at it, as seen in gun camera footage during combat.
United Nations troops face the Spring offensive during the Korean War. UN combat team soldiers comprised of British, Belgian, Filipino, and American troops quickly break their camp in the Imjin River area. A soldier hastily finishes his meal. UN soldiers standing in a fox hole with rifles resting atop boxes and looking out at enemy lines. Mortars being fired by UN forces at the enemy Chinese forces. A UN Military trucks burns after being hit by an enemy shell. UN convoy of trucks and tanks on a retreat halts and is seen as it takes cover due to heavy firing from machine gun and mortar fire in the hills. UN convoy resumes the advance. British and Belgian battalion commanders discuss plans. Convoy rolls through Uijongbu. Tired and weary U.S. Army infantrymen advance and wade through a rice fields and streams after heavy battle the day before. In rainy conditions, soldiers hold rear guard position and U.S. Army 155mm howitzers being fired at the enemy in Uijongbu. UN military vehicles cross a bridge. Soldiers pour gasoline over a TNT (Trinitrotoluene) mined bridge. They set the gas on fire and run toward the camera position. Bridge explodes and smoke rises.
U.S. troops of the Third Army Division move along a mountainous road, past some parked army vehicles. Several of them scurry to take shelter by some boulders. Smoke rising from valley below as a soldier, in an M3 Half track, points and sets up an antenna. Four 50-caliber machine guns are mounted in the back of the half track. American soldiers firing rifles from a protected area. Two soldiers with an air-cooled machine gun. Spent cartridges are scattered in the sand by their weapon. Glimpse of troops firing the four 50 caliber machine guns in the back of the M3 half track. Overwhelmed by superior numbers, the U.S. troops are ordered to pull back. View of U.S. soldiers moving back from their protected position. American troops in vehicles moving back along the dirt mountainous road. Next, U.S. forces are seen moving South over snow-covered terrain. One U.S. mortar team fires a round to their rear. A Brigadier General conferring with another officer about mounting a counterattack back up the peninsula. Third Division troops are seen heading North, again, firing tank artillery as they proceed. Smoke rises from their shells exploding ahead of them. Infantry move carefully through burning villages and into the Korean central mountain sector. Smoke rises from a large explosion as the North Koreans launch an offensive in May. American troops rushing up a hillside to engage the enemy. A U.S. Sherman tank firing rounds from valley floor. Shells from U.S. armor exploding atop a hill occupied by American troops. Afterwards, the troops advance further. One fires at an enemy bunker just to be sure it is not occupied. Machine gunner atop a U.S. tank fires at haystacks that might hold enemy soldiers. Another view of a Sherman tank firing its main gun. Smoke rising from the shells striking a hill in the distance. Glimpse of a U.S. soldier with a North Korean prisoner of war. U.S. troops advancing through rice paddies filled with water. Narrator states that this was a full scale United Nations Offensive called "Operation Pile Driver." More views of American infantry setting up firing lines and firing water-cooled and air-cooled machine guns.
Opening scene shows view U.S. soldier atop a tank advancing along a waterway, behind a truck filled with infantry, during the Korean War. A civilian car caught in a flood. An American tank with 3rd Division infantrymen on edge of a flooded area. A civilian vehicle abandoned nearby. Narrator notes that Chinese forces were suffering defeats. Third Division infantry accompanied by armor, advancing in fields. Riflemen firing their weapons at an abandoned train and a building. Tanks advancing with infantry. Third division receives orders to anchor western end of the Iron Triangle in plan to contain Communist forces therein. American Junior officers discuss this with soldiers.
U.S. forces on the move to encircle the Iron Triangle, and blast the enemy from the hilltops during the Korean War. The first scene shows a U.S. Sherman tank carrying about 15 American infantrymen who occupy every possible space atop the tank. It is followed by a Patton tank, also covered with American infantry getting a ride. Fuzzy view of a tank in field with traces of snow. U.S. gun crew firing a towed field howitzer. Closeup of American Lieutenant commanding artillery. He is using a field telephone. Another crew firing a mortar. Shells exploding on the hilltops. U.S. soldiers observing with binoculars from a bunker. Numerous explosions of many kinds of ordnance in the hills. Soldier firing a 30-caliber Browning air-cooled machine gun. Another American soldier firing a sub-machine gun. Other infantrymen firing fully automatic rifles. A U.S. Air Force F-51 Mustang fighter plane drops napalm on a target. Another Mustang fighter dives low to fire rockets and strafe an enemy position. Many more views of American artillery, tanks, and machine guns firing at the hills. Infantry move uphill to occupy the hilltops. Two are seen carrying flame throwers. As the infantry enter woods on a hillside, a flamethrower is employed. Troops in a sandbagged position in a town. Sick and wounded Korean civilians lie on litters in a paved area from where they are being placed into trucks.