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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...
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Wounded Korean soldiers at a train station in South Korea
Soldiers unloading numerous items from a row of trucks / natives at lower left with an airplane flying overhead / a man with a hat and a handkerchief over his neck / Korean women pour water or tea into cups / People at a rail station...
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The Korean War's 38th parallel
Tilt pan of numerous American and South Korean soldiers getting things ready to move / A Korean places a sign: "South Limit Demilitarized Zone, Do not Enter" / Trucks roll past with a heavy load of POWs on a dusty road / Soldiers with...
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Fierce battle of Korean War against the communists continues on the frontline in Korea
WS Soldier on hillside preparing for actions near dugout, sandbags in foreground in battlefield / CU soldiers digging to fill up sandbags / WS barrage of big guns, firing one by one / QVS of CU tanks firing / MS troops on field firing...
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US B-29 airplanes carry out strike on Korean enemy territory
Aerial bombs hitting ground target / PAN cloud / Aerial flashes and smoke from bombs hitting target on ground / Aerial bomb hitting target on ground / WS smoke from explosion of bombs on ground / Aerial near miss and hit on boat / Aerial...
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US Navy men get ship ready for Korean War in San Francisco, CA
MS Workmen approaching SS Luxembourg Victory at Bethlehem Shipyard in San Francisco / CU workmen reconditioning ship, working on side the side of ship / MS workmen cleaning rails with rags / workman spraying rails / WS aboard USS Pollux,...
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US F-51 fighter planes for Korean War are loaded onto aircraft carrier in Alameda, CA
VS North American F-51 Apaches, US Army fighters being loaded on USS Boxer aircraft carrier at Alameda, CA / Angle view of plane being loaded by crane / WS plane being loaded by crane / WS planes on board ship / Note: exact day not known
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The hospital ship USS Haven carries wounded GIs from Korea to San Francisco
PAN Hospital ship USS Haven with Red Cross painted on side / WS hospital ship USS Haven arriving in San Francisco Bay / CU name of ship "Navy Hospital Ship Haven" and Red Cross on side of ship / MS Rear view of wounded men at ship...
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Korean War flying aces Captains Joseph McConnell and Manuel Fernandez at the Pentagon
WS EXT Pentagon / Captain Joseph McConnell and Captain Manuel Fernandez (moustache) sitting at table with two microphones on it / CUs McConnell and Fernandez / MCU McConnell and Fernandez at table with three microphones a telephone and a...
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United States Marines walking in countryside during Korean War in October 1952
VS AERIAL bomb-marked countryside / US marines walking up hill away from camera / marines walking toward camera, several of them smoking / LS marines walking away from camera down dirt road toward some soldiers in bkgd and shack / Note:...
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US Marines in foxhole and walking in Korea, October 1952
MS marines walk across base of hill away from camera / MS two soldiers in trench outside foxhole, one marine standing outside foxhole / MCU marine climbs through tight crevice in foxhole, one soldier stands tight against wall of foxhole,...
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Korean War flying aces Joseph McConnell and Manuel Fernandez arrive at Travis AFB in California, May 1953
Captain Joseph McConnell (in front on stairs) and Captain Manuel Fernandez step out of Pan American Airways plane and walk down plane stairs / CUs McConnell and Fernandez / MS airplane, propellers spinning on runway, truck parked nearby...
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US Marines eat beside sandbagged shack in Korea in October 1952
MS US Marines standing and sitting beside sandbagged shack / CU scooping some kind of soup from big pot and pouring into tin cup / VS marines eating / Note: exact day not known
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Walter Robertson, US Assistant Secretary of State, arrives at DC airport and is greeted by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
MS airplane taxiing on runway at Washington DC airport / MS Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson, returning from Korean peace talks, walks down airplane stairs followed by two other officials, at bottom of stairs Robertson...
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Korean and US officers train South Korean soldiers on mortar guns, machine guns, and field phones, 1950
South Korean soldiers set up mortar gun, US officer supervises / row of Korean soldiers lying down pointing machine guns / LS countryside with soldiers training on it, mountains in bkgd / VS Korean officer demonstrates using field phone...