1950, South Korea

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Following the crossing of the 38th Parallel by North Korean troops and the United Nations intervention, 'Picture Post' sends cameraman Haywood Magee to the scene of the fighting to record the story of the retreat South, the stop-gap efforts that are being made to reform and the tangle of refugees, reinforcements and wounded circa 1950. He arrived at a time when U.S. and Korean troops were being driven back to the sea, prior to the arrival of substantial United Nations aid in the form of men and materials.---- Some of the women refugees who share the hardships of civil war in Korea. They have played their part in tending the wounded and shepherding the children when the gunfire opened. Now, when they are tired and near breaking point, the order comes for them to move on again.