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U.S. and Greek Troops in Korea
Master 1848 - Tape 1 TLS/MSs cameraman Wade Bingham wearing military-issued winter parka and arctic cap with flaps while walking down slippery snow-covered hill in Korea, then passing camera. High angle LS U.N. forces scrambling at bottom of hill, running for cover. TLSs white male U.S. Army soldiers trekking along hilly path, trudging up snowy hill with weapons, having difficult time. MSs three white male U.S. Army soldiers carrying body of fallen comrade through woods, down steep slope. LS snowy mountains. TLS/MS white male Greek Army soldier resting, lightly napping on hill-- note the bandage on his chin. MS white male Greek army soldier sleeping on light field artillery barrel. MS body of dead Korean man laying in snow, hands bound behind his back. MS U.S. soldier leaning beside dead body. VO: "Telenews cameraman Wade Bingham accompanies a United Nations force in Korea on its drive to the north. The advance is slowed by communist fire. American and Greek troops move up to reinforce forward units. Progress is painfully slow. This time U.N. forces avoid the main roads, take mountain paths instead... One American outpost guard died under fire. The Greek company of 200, which beat back 3000 Chinese with rifle butts, grenades and bayonets, is exhausted. This is a scene encountered by the advancing 8th Army, in a village recently held by the foe. Civilians shot with their hands tied behind them. Proof of communist atrocities mounts."
Ordinance & Aftermath
LS US Navy flying bomb taking off from launch pad (near horizontal launch). It's an unpiloted red aircraft that looks a lot like the German V-2 of WWII vintage. Same type launched from stern of battleship or destroyer or cruiser at sea. Large plume of smoke disappears and aircraft ejects objects which may be fuel tanks expended in the initial take off 01:06:09 LS town or city with flames billowing out in distance. Possibly the aftermath of this very flying bomb; smoke from the large fire, then pan to soldier and officials looking on 01:06:27 MS Vietnamese soldiers under bridge or shelter; pan to flaming buildings in distance 01:06:37 MS soldiers crouched behind barricades; pan across tops of houses to flaming buildings 01:06:58 MS women & children refugees with belongings, getting off boat at river; one soldier carries a baby 01:07:13 LS sky with 10-12 helicopters flying in formation towards camera and overhead 01:07:33 closer view one helicopter, NATO on tail 01:07:40 South Vietnamese fighter streaks by, low and very fast (two passes) 01:08:05 LS double-rotor helicopters US Army flying low to ground; LS troops in what appears to be a war games exercise 01:08:36 CU soldiers firing ground-based machine gun, one aiming and the other keeping the belt of bullets feeding into the gun (NOT Vietnam; late 1950s or early 1960s) 01:08:50 CU another soldier firing a rifle at an unseet target from behind a post; yet another soldier firing machine gun rounds (NOT Vietnam) 01:09:00 MS soldiers, one holding bazooka, the other loading (NOT Vietnam) 01:09:08 MS North Korean KPA communist soldier getting interrogated by nearly off-screen U.S. GI & RoK interpreter
Korea Guns Still: Speed Fulfillment Of Truce Conditions
Same as catalog # 515006 After three years of savage conflict, the guns are stilled at last. Both sides move rapidly to fulfill truce conditions-moving back from front line positions, and returning prisoners of war. Three blood stained years end as the last round is fired in Korea. Under terms of the truce work proceeds rapidly under the dismantling of fortifications and the removal of all weapons from the de-militarized zone. But though the guns are stilled there are grisly reminders of the struggle. The inevitable of war are strung all over the landscape. Korea CUS - US military loading up a canon with shells, on one of the shells written in chalk last round MCUS/LL - Army men shelling. MLS - Army bunker. MCUS - Dismantling of a canon. CUS - Army men exiting a bunker with human skulls decoration the outside (pretty discussing). CUS - Skull with an army helmet, very scary.CUS - UN soldiers taking a break in a dug out ditch. LS - The enemy taking a break. MCUS - Three UN men sitting on top a hill. MCUS - Four soldiers taking a break smoking cigarettes. CUS - Smiling GI s. CUS - A soldier carrying his pack on his back. MCUS - A platoon of soldiers walking by waving at the cameraman. MCUS - The historic truce building at Pan Moo-Jaun. MLS - Exchange of prisoners. Mls - North Korean Reds marching. MLS - Large Crowd of military. General Mark Clark arrives in San Francisco, en route to report to the President, and receives a hero's welcome. San Francisco, California MLS - General Mark Clarke getting off a USAF plane. CUS - General Mark Clarke. MCUS - The General walks past a guard of honor. MLS - A parade down the streets of San Francisco honoring the general. CUS - General Clarke and Mayor Robinson.
Korea Guns Still: Speed Fulfillment Of Truce Conditions
Same as catalog # 352771 After three years of savage conflict, the guns are stilled at last. Both sides move rapidly to fulfill truce conditions-moving back from front line positions, and returning prisoners of war. Three blood stained years end as the last round is fired in Korea. Under terms of the truce work proceeds rapidly under the dismantling of fortifications and the removal of all weapons from the de-militarized zone. But though the guns are stilled there are grisly reminders of the struggle. The inevitable of war are strung all over the landscape. Korea CUS - US military loading up a canon with shells, on one of the shells written in chalk last round MCUS/LL - Army men shelling. MLS - Army bunker. MCUS - Dismantling of a canon. CUS - Army men exiting a bunker with human skulls decoration the outside (pretty discussing). CUS - Skull with an army helmet, very scary.CUS - UN soldiers taking a break in a dug out ditch. LS - The enemy taking a break. MCUS - Three UN men sitting on top a hill. MCUS - Four soldiers taking a break smoking cigarettes. CUS - Smiling GI s. CUS - A soldier carrying his pack on his back. MCUS - A platoon of soldiers walking by waving at the cameraman. MCUS - The historic truce building at Pan Moo-Jaun. MLS - Exchange of prisoners. Mls - North Korean Reds marching. MLS - Large Crowd of military. General Mark Clark arrives in San Francisco, en route to report to the President, and receives a hero's welcome. San Francisco, California MLS - General Mark Clarke getting off a USAF plane. CUS - General Mark Clarke. MCUS - The General walks past a guard of honor. MLS - A parade down the streets of San Francisco honoring the general. CUS - General Clarke and Mayor Robinson.
US Tanks
Panning MS of a M39 Armored Utility Vehicle with three Marines on top. The vehicle is moving from left to screen right. LS view of the battlefield with smoke rising from the ground. The soldiers are camouflaged within the vegetation and are on alert. Another LS of a hillside (no vegetation). Off in the distance you can see armored vehicles and soldiers taking position. Partially out of the frame, screen left, you can see a soldier/cannon crewmember, alert, looking out over the valley with the machine gun. MS of two soldiers (man facing the camera may be an officer) with a tank behind them looking over their position on a map, then pointing out a position out of frame. Brief, blurry MS of a soldier taking cover behind a tree, then the ground as explosion goes off behind him. Brief MS of a Marine running with his weapon right to screen left on a road. The front of a tank is partially visible in the shot. MS of a M4A3E8 Sherman tank with soldiers following on either side and behind it going from left to screen right. Rubble is seen in the background. There is a soldier standing mostly off camera, screen right.
"Operation Abolition": HUAC Film on U Cal Protest
Congressman Francis E Walter (D - Pennsylvania) describing the Communist mission "Operation Abolition" - the purpose of which is destroy the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Operation Abolition, this is what the Communists call their current drive to destroy the House Committee on Un-American Activities, to weaken the Federal Bureau of Investigations, to discredit its great director, J Edgar Hoover, and to render sterile the security laws of our government. The Communist Party has given top priority to Operation Abolition and has assigned agents trained in propaganda and agitation to this project. The scenes which you will be viewing were taken by newsreel photographers during hearings of the Committee on Un-American Activities in San Francisco, California on May the 12th, 13th and 14th, 1960. During the next few minutes, you will see revealed the long time classic Communist tactic, in which a relatively few, well trained, hard core Communist agents are able to insight and use non-Communist sympathizers to perform the dirty work of the Communist Party. You will see Archie Brown, second in command of the Communist Party in California, Harry Bridges, an international Communist agent and leader of the international longshoreman s union, who recently returned from conferences held with other leaders of Communist lead longshoreman s groups, Ralph Izard, one of the top Communist propagandists, who was welcome guest of the Red Chinese government while American soldiers were giving their lives in the Korean War. You will see Douglas Wachter, an agent trained to specialize in youth activities, William Mandel, another Communist propagandist who serves the conspiracy in the fields of radio and television, Bertram Edises, who is one of the elite core of Communist lawyers, Frank Wilkinson, recently convicted of contempt of Congress, who is in charge of The Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms, the West Coast headquarters of Operation Abolition. You will see these and others in action and the shocking technique which they use to insight other to violence. We are all too familiar with the pattern of Communist led revolution and rioting in Venezuela, Cuba and more recently in Japan. Can it happen here on American soil? This film showing Communism in action will answer that question.
Iran-Contra Hearings - Testimony of Colonel Oliver North.
Senator Warren Rudman-You know Colonel North, I go back to Korea in 1951. We won and then we lost. And then we were in a position to win again. And Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, who succeeded him, recognized that although it was a crime to leave the North Korean people to the subjugation of North Korea, we walked away. We could have won that war at that point. We could have liberated the North and many of us who were there wanted too. But the people didn t, they had enough of the killing, 550 thousand causalities. Lyndon Johnson wrecked his Presidency on the shoulders of Vietnam. I guess the last thing I want to say to you Colonel is that the American People have the constitutional right to be wrong. And what Ronald Reagan thinks, what Oliver North thinks and what I think or what anyone else thinks makes not a writ if the American people say enough. And that s why this Congress has been fickle, vacillated and that is correct. But not because the people here necessarily believe differently than you do. But there comes a point that the views of the American people have to be heard. Finally Colonel, I thank you for your testimony. You have been an extraordinarily helpful witness. You have filled in many details that are necessary and we appreciate that very much. Thank you.
Anti-Soviet Demonstration
Anti-Soviet Demonstration after the shooting down of Korean Airliner flight 007. Adult Caucasian men and women gathered behind a "Remember Larry McDonald" banner; Tryggvi McDonald, son of U.S. House Representative Lawrence McDonald (D-GA) on stage, surrounded by adult Caucasian men and women. Row of television cameras with adult Caucasian and African American cameramen, obscured, filming; "Communism Kills" chants heard off camera. McDonald thanks the protestors for their concern over human rights, list the many human rights and political abuses the Soviet Union has committed, calls the regime murderous, and demands the same accountability that citizens in the United States would suffer for these crimes. He calls on the White House and Congress to take strong action against the Soviet Union, including halting all aid and trade with them and their satellites, withdraw recognition of the Soviet Union and cease all diplomatic relations. He ends by saying that if appeasement of the Soviet Union will end, then his father's death will not be in vain.
Burning Tank
Burning Tank
GIs, Korea, Winter
Winds and snow whipping through a broken fence and across the landscape. GIs in winter gear with automatic weapons walking across the barren landscape. Foreign language narration.
Korea, Winter, Snow
MS of Field Commander Matthew Bunker Ridgway touring the frontline. MS of him getting into a Jeep and shaking hands with soldiers. Everyone is dressed in winter gear.
The Great Communicator Vol 2: The Military and the Soviet Union
September 5, 1983 Excerpt from Address to the Nation on the Soviet Attack on a Korean Civilian Airliner. "We are more determined than ever to reduce and, if possible, eliminate the threat hanging over mankind. We know it will be hard to make a nation that rules its own people through force to cease using force against the rest of the world." edit "And make no mistake about it, this attack was not just against ourselves or the Republic of Korea. This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere. It was an act of barbarism, born of a society which wantonly disregards individual rights and the value of human life and seeks constantly to expand and dominate other nations. They deny the deed, but in their conflicting and misleading protestations, the Soviets reveal that, yes, shooting down a plane -- even one with hundreds of innocent men, women, children, and babies -- is a part of their normal procedure if that plane is in what they claim as their airspace. They owe the world an apology ..." edit "But we shouldn't be surprised by such inhuman brutality. Memories come back of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, the gassing of villages in Afghanistan. If the massacre and their subsequent conduct is intended to intimidate, they have failed in their purpose. From every corner of the globe the word is defiance in the face of this unspeakable act and defiance of the system which excuses it and tries to cover it up. With our horror and our sorrow, there is a righteous and terrible anger. It would be easy to think in terms of vengeance, but that is not a proper answer. We want justice and action to see that this never happens again."
Speeches of MacArthur
MS U.S. Army General DOUGLAS A. MACARTHUR wearing stripped military uniform while speaking to Joint Session of U.S. Congress, delivering famous "Old Soldiers Never Die" speech (continued): "While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old one. Apart from the military need, as I saw it, to neutralize sanctuary protection given the enemy north of the Yalu, I felt that military necessity in the conduct of the war made necessary the intensification of our economic blockade against China, the imposition of a naval blockade against the China coast, removal of restrictions on air reconnaissance of China's coastal area and of Manchuria, removal of restrictions on the forces of the Republic of China on Formosa, with logistical support to contribution to-their effective operations against the Chinese mainland. For entertaining these views, all professionally designed to support our forces in Korea and to bring hostilities to an end with the least possible delay and at a saving of countless American arid allied lives, I have been severely criticized in lay circles, principally abroad, despite my understanding that from a military standpoint the above views have been fully shared in the past by practically every military leader concerned with the Korean campaign, including our own Joint Chiefs of Staff." Enthusiastic applause, standing ovation.
Korea: Allies Roll Back Red Suicide Battalions
Jumpy, blurry dark and dull in contrast and imagery Korea: Allies Roll Back Red Suicide Battalions Late films from South Korea where the un allies are holding firm against Red Suicide Battalions. Our mighty air lift continues to pour in supplies to the fighting fronts, where British troops now fight on the side on the GI's. New tactics in tank firing aid the un effort, while in the skies, clearing weather brings out fighters and bombers to harass Opening shot, American GI's one has a flame thrower in his hands. FI-3 airplanes (cargo?) being loaded with boxes, tires, and more than likely ammunition. A platoon of soldiers standing by a plane ready to board a transport plane. MCU GI's boarding the transport plane. MLS of a USA army base in Korea. Soldiers putting up their gear. MCU soldier eating his rations sitting next to a smoldering fire and jeep. MCU of soldiers sleeping in their ditch. MLS army base. CU of two soldiers, one is holding a loaded shell and the other one is fighting the war head on it. Aerial shot from a plane. CU of pilot speaking with his superiors and going over his orders or map. MLS of soldiers firing cannons into the foot hills of Korea. Aerial shot of artillery landing and blowing up. CU pilot keeping in touch by radio with his superiors. More aerial, LS of bombs blowing up. MLS of fire in the woods. MS of army platoon checking and cleaning up what the air force missed. A flame thrower fire coming out of the weapon, no soldier seen. A Korean man walking down a street with smoldering fires.
Fighting in Seoul
GV of artillery (155mm Howitzer M-114) being fired in front of the Capital Building in Seoul. High angle shot from the building window of artillery being fired. POV shot of soldiers loading and firing the howitzer.
1950 - United States Air Force - Fighter Plane, Bombers
U.S. fighter plane (Republic P-47 C Thunderbolt?) taxiing on runway. White puffs of anti-aircraft fire. Aerial of an airstrip in Korea. Aerial of fighters planes and bombers parked on airstrip.
1950 - United States Air Force - Korea
U.S. Army Lt. General Walton H. Walker conferring with lieutenant on a map. Three adult Caucasian male pilots talking beside scout plane. VS of U.S. Army soldiers evacuating on U.S. Air Force plane.
POW Camp
MS of sign for "U.N. COMMAND, P.W. CAMP NO. 2, PUSAN (HOSP)" on roof. Various shots of men in uniform walking in lines down dirt road, carrying large bags on their backs. Various shots through fence of POW camp buildings and soldiers, trucks in the background. Various shots of POW camp buildings and fence.
US Troops Leave Burning Village
Thick black smoke rises from burning buildings; Caucasian adult male U.S. Army soldiers walk away from village, small white dog trots alongside.
1950s - American Soldiers - Packing Tents
Caucasian soldiers packing up tent; Army truck driving by. African American soldiers carrying packed tent, loading it on a truck. Soldiers standing on truck, unloading onto airplane.
Korea: Plane lands, POWs, Red Cross
MS of a Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando Long Range Transport Aircraft and the POWs deboarding the plane. MS of POWs going from the plane to an ambulance bus. CU ofRed Cross personnel handing out cigarettes to POWs as they head onto the bus. CU of POWs heading onto the bus. TS of soldier dictating to a woman a letter to be sent home. CU of woman writing a letter. Tracking shot of bus leaving with POWs onboard.
A Time for Choosing. A thoughtful address by Ronald Reagan, on behalf of the Goldwater Presidential campaign.
Ronald Reagan continues: "Our Democratic opponents seem unwilling to debate these issues. They want to make you and I believe that this is a contest between two men, that we're to choose just between two personalities. Well what of this man that they would destroy, and in destroying, they would destroy that which he represents, the ideas that you and I hold dear? Is he the brash and shallow and trigger-happy man they say he is? Well I've been privileged to know him when. I knew him long before he ever dreamed of trying for high office, and I can tell you personally I've never known a man in my life I believed so incapable of doing a dishonest or dishonorable thing. (appluase) This is a man who, in his own business before he entered politics, instituted a profit-sharing plan before unions had ever thought of it. He put in health and medical insurance for all his employees. He took 50 percent of the profits before taxes and set up a retirement program, a pension plan for all his employees. He sent monthly checks for life to an employee who was ill and couldn't work. He provides nursing care for the children of mothers who work in the stores. When Mexico was ravaged by the floods in the Rio Grande, he climbed in his airplane and flew medicine and supplies down there. An ex-GI told me how he met him. It was the week before Christmas during the Korean War, and he was at the Los Angeles airport trying to get a ride home to Arizona for Christmas. And he said that a lot of servicemen there and no seats available on the planes. And then a voice came over the loudspeaker and said, Any men in uniform wanting a ride to Arizona, go to runway such-and-such, and they went down there, and there was a fellow named Barry Goldwater sitting in his plane. Every day in those weeks before Christmas, all day long, he'd load up the plane, fly it to Arizona, fly them to their homes, fly back over to get another load. During the hectic split-second timing of a campaign, this is a man who took time out to sit beside an old friend who was dying of cancer. His campaign managers were understandably impatient, but he said, There aren't many left who care what happens to her. I'd like her to know I care. This is a man who said to his 19-year-old son, There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start. This is not a man who could carelessly send other people's sons to war. And that is the issue of this campaign that makes all the other problems I've discussed academic, unless we realize we're in a war that must be won."
Village Burns at Night
Aerial view of multiple fires burning across landscape. Caravan of military transport vehicles drive towards burning village. Army truck drives through burning wood and debris. Fire superimposed over destroyed buildings, explosion in BG. Adult male Republic of Korea soldiers peer from trucks along roadside.
MacArthur Takes Over As UN Backs US
UN Backs America In Korea Conflict By a vote of 7 to one the security council invokes sanctions against red aggressors . Truman makes a statement to the press: "...We face a serious situation. We hope we face it in the cause of peace. The only reason for the action which was taken on the advice of all the brains that I could muster, was hoping, always hoping, that we could finally arrive at the peace in the world which we anticipated when we created the United Nations. That's the only reason for the action. Thank you very much." In Korea and General MacArthur takes over command, as other nations rush forces to suppress the invasion.