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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website “Staff Film Reports of the Armed Forces No. 131” is a restricted, black-and-white, 16mm film from 1951 that was originally shown to brief U.S. Army staff on the ongoing Korean War. The film acts as a visual report on the battles, gains, and losses occurring at the frontlines following the Second Communist Invasion of South Korea in late 1950. Photographed by a cameraman of the United States Armed Forces, this film is part of a larger series of films created by the U.S. Department of Defense. This film features visuals of United Nations troops defending their positions in snow-covered areas as well as various offensive aircraft at work, including B-26 Marauder bombers and F-80 Shooting Star fighters. The film also sheds light on the important work of the Army Nurse Corps and includes visuals from Mobile Army Surgeons Hospitals / MASH units and from a hospital in the Far East Command. The narrator additionally includes details about the state of the war through the use of illustrations on maps. Opening credits, official seal for the Department of Defense (0:10). Map of North and South Korea: highlights 38th parallel, cities of Seoul, Suwon, Wonju (0:35). United Nations troops in western sector near Osan dig vehicles out during heavy snowfall (1:24). Close-up of troops using shovels, brooms, their hands, and pieces of cardboard to clear dashboards and trunks of snow (1:29). One troop wearing fur lined winter cap and cigarette dangling from mouth clearing snow (1:55). Troops gather around snow-covered outdoor canteen with trays and pans so they can be served a meal (2:21). Clips of troops in Osan: stand guard in machine-gun nests and trenches dug into the earth, snow all around (2:55). F-80s and B-26s (fighter bombers) parked in a row are prepared for combat on airfield (3:43). Flight of F-80 Shooting Stars (4:04). View of farmland, mountains, bridges below as seen from plane (4:08). Montage of scenes depicting attack from the air: planes peel off to bomb a bridge (4:23). View from air of UN B-26 bomber aircraft as it moves over mountainous town filled with Korean troops (5:19-6:52). View from air as jet flies through valleys of mountainous North Korean landscape in search of Communist troop hide outs (6:59). F-84 Thunder Jet flies low to the ground in search of enemy hideouts (7:33). Moment napalm fire bomb dropped on Communist vehicles (8:00). Pilot's view from cockpit flying in row of synchronized F-84 Thunder Jets (8:10). Battle updates from January 15th 1951, position of United States 8th Army’s 2nd Division alongside Dutch and French troops as well as position of Korean troops and Chinese 38th and 50th Corps indicated on map of North and South Korea: highlights the 38th parallel, cities of Seoul, Suwon, Wonju, Yeongwol, Danyang, Jecheon (8:19). Female nurse from Army Nurse Corps hands wounded soldiers their medicine in crowded room of patients at 10th Station Hospital (MASH Unit Hospital) set up in mobile tent in Busan (9:12). Army nurses work side by side in medicine and supply storage area (10:19). Close-up of nurse as she prepares IVs (10:30). Another nurse prepares surgical trays (10:49). Nurse brings prepared surgical tray to autoclave machine to sanitize medical instruments (11:14). Army surgeons in surgical gowns and masks place dressings on wounded soldier with injury to leg and knee (11:26). Nurses re-apply bandages to post-op soldiers at Far East Command (12:12). Nurse adjusts pillows for bed ridden soldiers (13:45). Battle updates from January 29th 1951 in cities of Seoul, Suwon, Wonju, Incheon, Pyeongchang (15:08). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
