keywords: citizen soldier, korean war, communist political officer, north korean soldier
Synopsis: How information is provided to all members of the United States Army all over the world giving current local, national, and international news. It also describes the educational opportunities available to the men and women of the Armed forces... (read more)
Shows Army troops walking up a gangplank into a troop carrier or loading on a troop ship. Same showing Navy Seamen. No on-board ship activity is shown. Combat scenes of soldiers firing machine gun and individual soldiers firing rifles in Korea. Exterior and interior scenes of industrial and artillery and aircraft manufacturing plant.
Shows Communist Political Officer instructing North Korean soldiers. Line of American citizens entering polling place to cast their vote. Election polling booths. Sidewalk mailbox with hand holding letter. Street scene as John Doe buys a newspaper at a sidewalk newsstand. Scene of a person giving a soapbox speech to a group. Sign reads Arm America First. Various scenes of students at a college or university. Student fashions and hairstyles in the 1950 era. Scene from a public library, a bookmobile in rural America, interior scene of the Library of Congress. Newspaper press with newspaper headline U.S. Rushes Korea Aid, selling newspapers on the sidewalk, family listening to radio in living room.
Flashback to early Germany and scenes from that era. Short scene of 1933 Nazi book burning. Shows German soldiers goose step march. Shows Communist parade in Russia, Stalin banner, hammer & sickle poster. Chinese Communist soldiers march with fixed bayonets. American troop combat scenes in Korea.
Educational opportunities for members of U.S. Army.
There are interviews with Major John D. Danzenbaker, I & E Officer with the 3rd division in Korea and Dr. Ralph W. Scott, chief educational advisor of the Department of the Army.