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Korea: Seesaw Battle On For Beachhead Area

Korea: Seesaw Battle On For Beachhead Area
Clip: 350774_1_1
Year Shot: 1950 (Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1550
Original Film: 023-379-01
HD: N/A
Location: Korea
Timecode: 00:04:24 - 00:07:24

Korea: Seesaw Battle On For Beachhead Area Late films from the fighting front in Korea. The battle for the beachhead still rages all around the front, where Communist pressure is heaviest in the Northwest sector. On the east front at Pohang, the vital airstrip is evacuated, but from Japan our jet fighters keep up the job of hammering at enemy concentrations. U.S. Wounded, and captured North Korean soldiers. MCU shots of the US military breaking down their camp and some soldiers on top of a hill as look-outs with the American flag flying in the breeze. Soldier burning military papers. MS of US air force flying over rice paddies. Good military combat aviation shots of gun fire from the planes and the destruction of North Korean forces. The retaliation of the North Korean firing back trying to blow up our planes. US soldiers shooting cannons at the North Koreans. American soldiers cautiously walking hoping to avoid booby traps laid down by the communist. A shell lands and explodes by our American troops. MS of dead North Korean soldiers in a ditch. MCU shots of two North Korean captured soldiers. A US military helicopter evacuating wounded American soldiers.