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During Korean War, US entertainers put on USO show for US Marines in South Korea
Title "A show in the rain in Korea" superimposed over five entertainers on stage / crowd of Marines watching / curtain with words on it saying "USO Camp Shows" / actors Patricia Neal and Pat Moran performing / Marines applauding / close...
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US soldiers wounded during battle with Chinese Communist troops in Battle of Old Baldy in South Korea
Title "UN pays price for Mt Baldy" superimposed over soldiers walking towards camera / WS bomb exploding on top of ridge in distance / shot of bare mountain slope / soldiers dug in on mountain slope / wounded soldier with arm in sling...
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Aerials land and mountains in South Korea in the beginning days of the Korean War
Aerial coastline and mountains / various shots aerial coastline, can see tip of plane wing / aerial looking through plane opening, can partially see man in plane looking out / Note: exact day not known
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US president-elect Dwight Eisenhower inspects UN troops in Pyeongtaek, South Korea
CU US president-elect Dwight Eisenhower smiling and saluting; he walks up to Korean soldier and shakes his hand, man using maybe camera in bg; pan around to include more soldiers and MP; he walks in front of lines of soldiers at...
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Soldiers evacuate wounded on stretchers from fighting on Old Baldy Hill during Korean War
Soldiers on barren hillside / hill / soldiers moving along trench / soldiers on hillside, mountains in bg / WS mountains, can see smoke / barren Old Baldy Hill / weary soldiers, one supporting wounded / soldiers, one wounded with arm in...
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US president-elect Dwight Eisenhower speaks at press conference at 8th US Army headquarters in Pyeongtaek, South Korea
Pan seated journalists at US president-elect Dwight Eisenhower's press conference at the headquarters of the 8th US Army / Eisenhower in suit standing on stage behind microphones, can see lights on him / closer shot Eisenhower speaking,...
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UN Forces review; South Korean Pres. Syngman Rhee and US Gen. Maxwell Taylor speak
South Korean President Syngman Rhee tipping hat and officers saluting passing UN troops and color guard / CU officers saluting / Rhee and officers reviewing troops / Rhee with papers in hand on reviewing stand shaking hands with officer,...
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South Korean Army soldiers fire on Chinese soldiers on White Horse Hill during Korean War
White Horse Hill in center of others / pan position of South Korean soldiers, truck and defense barrier of logs / soldiers run up hill carrying shells, vehicles in bg / soldiers from behind / soldiers scramble under camouflage netting...
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US president-elect Dwight Eisenhower watches military review with UN Forces in South Korea
CU US president-elect Dwight Eisenhower with General James Van Fleet and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Omar Bradley; Eisenhower steps forward on reviewing stand; Van Fleet speaks a few words to him and steps back / reviewing...
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Wrecked plane during the first days of the Korean War; wounded assisted
Pan wrecked US plane at Suwon Airfield, soldier standing in front, can make out others in far distance / officer carrying briefcase followed by soldier carrying wounded man to another plane, another plane in front / soldiers helps...
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During first days of Korean War, Americans arrive with supplies for South Korean soldiers
Soldiers back up truck with branches and South Korean flag over hood to open doors on plane; pan to words "United States Air Force: on side / unloading supplies from plane onto truck / soldiers and supplies / pan crowd along street...
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Street demonstration in Seoul, South Korea; South Korean President Syngman Rhee speaks
Demonstrators filling street moving, banners, soldiers in fg / President Syngman Rhee and wife Francesca escorted by officers, photographers and others in bg / CU Rhee speaking into microphones / Note: exact day not known
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Exhausted and sleeping US soldiers waiting at airfield during the first days of the Korean War
US injured soldiers sleeping in chairs and on floor in waiting room at Taejon Airfield, soldiers gathered in bg, can see full ashtrays and mugs / sleeping soldiers / soldier on floor with head on helmet, another beside him / soldiers...
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South Korean soldiers mobilize during first days of the Korean War
Soldiers walking along dirt road in front of buildings / closer shot Korean soldiers walking / truck of soldiers with branches sticking out for camouflage passing waving villagers, man with bicycle on far side / truck passing camera /...
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Crowds in Seoul waving flags welcoming US president-elect Dwight Eisenhower; he inspects South Korean troops
ROK troops at attention, snow-covered mountains in bg / US president-elect Dwight Eisenhower with officers inspects troops / VS CU soldiers / Eisenhower with general walking, soldiers and vehicles in bg / looking down on crowd carrying...
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South Korean Pres. Syngman Rhee presents US president-elect Dwight Eisenhower with Korean flag in Seoul
Jeep with President-elect Dwight Eisenhower and officers passing camera / Eisenhower shaking hands as officers get out of jeep beside him; he shakes hands with President Syngman Rhee, officers and photographer aiming camera behind, trees...
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North Koreans are returned home in the first days of the Korean War armistice
The USS Russell County (LST-1090) approaches the shore / bedraggled Chinese prisoners and a wounded man exit the craft and walk to a passenger car of a train / a closer view of the men approaching the gangplank / A wide view of USS Duval...
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North Koreans are returned home during Operation Big Switch
Various shots of a Military Police jeep escorting trucks carrying hundreds of North Koreans cheering and waving NK flags / ambulances on a dusty curving road / The elaborate gate to North Korea camp with a weather-worn stone fixture in...
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Ambulance helicopter evacuates wounded in Korea
Stretchers of two wounded people laid horizontally over the helicopter skids; helicopters fly over a caravan packed with hundreds of Communist POWs waving their hats / Note: exact day not known
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Cleanup activities on the Korean War battlefront in the early days of the armistice
VS two shirtless soldiers seated atop a rocky hill in a silent battlefront; one, with a rosary around his neck, plays a trumpet / VS men dig through a pile of wreckage as they clean up the bunker area / men, including an...
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Former Communist prisoners transferred to North Korea camp
Scores of flatbed trucks filled with North Korean Communist prisoners of war; ambulances roll past them on the right / WS all sorts of vehicles driving on a ridge in the distance of a hill / A truck passes with men holding banners: "Down...
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United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Korea
Sign: "Panmunjom US Receiving Point" with another: "Welcome Gate To Freedom (with Korean lettering) / Korean men get into a truck with a tarp / A broadly grinning prisoner displays a sign written with his blood / UN men are assisted from...
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UN soldiers clear the Korean War DMZ during the first days of the armistice
Pan silent battlefront and empty trench on Bunker Hill / high angle pan quiet battlefield / high angle CU empty trench / MS shirtless white and African-American US soldiers amass machine guns and ammunition boxes as they clean a bunker /...
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Operation Big Switch prisoner exchange in Korea, 1953
A small procession of trucks with American Marines packed in flatbed trucks; they arrive in 'Freedom Village' with a welcome sign and tents / A man waves from the gap in the tarp of the truck on the roof over the driver / Gate with...