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One Year In Korea

General scenes of the United Nations General Assembly showing representatives of the various member countries of the UN. Long line of American Soldiers under the UN banner moving South yielding ground to buy time for additional troops, guns, and supplies to arrive. Shows Korean refugees moving South with UN Soldiers.

Shows map locating Korea in relation to the countries of China, Manchuria, Soviet Russia, and Japan. Animated map shows UN defense position at Pusan, Korea. Scenes of artillery guns firing, tank guns firing, mortars firing, infantry firing rifles. UN Soldiers and supplies from many nations shown exiting landing craft and ships at the Port of Pusan. Shows Military Chaplain and Soldiers at religious services. UN forces counterattack under cover of an artillery barrage. Animated map shows location of Inchon Korea in relation to Pusan.

Night scenes of naval bombardment of Inchon. Marines land at Inchon. UN Infantry troops and tanks advance though the burning ruins of Seoul. Shows American Soldier firing M-3A1 “Grease Gun” (submachine gun used by American forces). Urban warfare, sounds and sights of furious street-to-street, building-to-building combat fighting. Corpsmen treat the wounded. Close-up of wounded Korean civilian on litter. Shows South Korean Soldiers carrying the South Korean flag back to liberated Seoul.

Shows hundreds of North Korean prisoners (Pows) guarded by UN Troops being marched to rear lines. Shows Korean civilians receiving rations of rice (food) and clothing. Shows bodies of massacred Korean civilians murdered by the retreating enemy. Shows large stockpile of captured Russian weapons. Warren Austin, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, shows a captured Soviet Russian rifle to the UN Security Council as the Soviet Union UN Representative walks out. The Russian gun was passed around and inspected by the Members of the UN Security Council.

Shows C-47 Skytrain plane with “The Speaker” painted on the nose. Shows UN Soldier in “The Speaker” aircraft appealing to North Koreans on the ground to stop the war. Shows C-47 plane dropping “Safe Conduct Passes” to North Korean troops on the ground. Shows sign that reads “You Are Crossing The 38th Parallel. Courtesy Of The U.S. Cavalry Gary Owen”. North Korean civilians cheer UN Forces as liberators. Korean and U.S. 7th Cavalry troops reach the Yalu River. Sights and sounds of furious combat action in one small front line sector in Korea. Shows flight of F-80 Shooting Star jet aircraft over North Korea. American planes make strafing and rocket attacks on ground targets. Shows plane dropping napalm bombs and resulting flashes of fire.

Shows UN Forces in white winter gear near Yalu River. Shows UN Forces digging foxholes in the snow covered frozen ground. Chinese Communist troops intervene in Korea. Shows rear guard action as UN Forces retreated. Shows flow of Korean refugees moving south ahead of the advancing Chinese Communist Troops. Shows air evacuation of Korean civilians. Map shows location of Hungnam. Shows evacuation of UN Troops and U.S. Marines, tanks, and equipment from Hungnam by ship.

Scenes of Medical Units and Soldiers from many Nations shown arriving in Korea. UN forces under Gen. Ridgway repulse the Chinese and recapture Seoul, take Chinese prisoners, and capture Russian war material. Koreans greet the return of UN Forces in Seoul, Communist Victory Arch in Seoul torn down.

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