 The DuPont Company of Wilmington, Delaware, makers of better things for better living through chemistry presents the cavalcade of America Tonight's play one way out a true story of Korea Tonight's star John Lund as Danny Parker This is a story of the war and and yet it isn't the war story It concerns men and an intangible something called the American way It begins in November 1950 in the war-torn country of Korea Begins with a bunch of Marines and a problem and like all stories of this or any other war Its heart is in the men who fight it men like Danny Parker I'm Danny Parker. I'm alive Now just so we understand each other. It's not because I'm lucky and it's not because I'm smart Paul Marino was lucky. He's dead Jonesy was smart. He's dead There's a lot of them in Korea But like I said, my name is Danny Parker and I'm alive It all happened around the end of November 1950 The first Marines and a bunch of GIs from the 7th infantry were holed up When I say hold up Buster. I mean it. Hey Danny. I got another one Congratulations, how many that leaves Jersey about 999,999 That commie is a very lousy shot. Don't worry. They got some good ones You got a cigarette Jersey that kid cigarette. I don't you guys ever carry your own It's the price you have to pay for being adopted by two veterans of Guadalcanal match. I Have a tell you about Guadal kid only a thousand times the time I get out it. Hey Isn't it the sergeant Coleman over here? Let's make out like we don't see him Well, if it ain't the Rover boys, you fell us on a vacation sergeant. You bring mail now. I've heard him all Comics and kids how are we gonna win this war? I've been wondering about the same thing. How does it look? It's not food, but good. There's 20,000 of us and 100,000 of them and they're all around us. It could be worse Spoken like a true hero. Why thank you Danny Parker in case you heroes have overlooked a couple of details here They are we're running out of ammo food and medicine In fact, we can hold out less than a week a lot less Spoken like a true morale officer. You got any more good news if I can think of any I'll come back Don't let it get you kid something'll turn up. Yeah, sure. Yeah, relax kid Believe me. This is nothing back on Guadalcanal. It was different. You're wrong Jersey Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima Korea The mud all tastes the same The mud tastes the same and the blood is just as red. It's a war During the day you shoot at shadows and at night you take pot shots at the dark Most of the time you just kill time until it's time to be killed You're seeing a shooting war. You worry about your own few feet of dirt Not what's happened in 10 miles ahead or 50 miles behind This is supposed to be headquarters. This is supposed to be a smooth running organization. Where's Tex Carlton? I'm coming general. I had to find a map you never mind the max is to communicate from the first Marines. Listen Completely surrounded enemy forces on all sides and tend to keep fighting short and sweet They're depending on the Air Force come up with a miracle. Can we blast a hole in enemy lines for breakthrough? We try it they keep pouring in reinforcements. What's our strength on the field? Not so good 25% casualties Tex That's almost 5,000 casualties and the Marines don't leave their wounded They'll all go down if we don't come up with something how about an airlift? There's no airstrip Where you're gonna land a plane well if I fly over maybe I can spot some flat land one strip will be enough Okay, fly over and take a look but you've got to come up with something good something real good Yes, because if we don't there's gonna be 20,000 dead Americans Look at my hands are almost blue with those gloves back on, but they're all wet. What I'm back on They can never remember being so cold never They pushed us back Danny Two days ago. We had that hill now. They got it. What's so great about that hill? Yeah, what's so great about? Hey You hear something? It's a plane over there. Yeah It's ours That looks pretty Wish I was up there seems to be circling Observation plane probably taking pictures. Maybe we're gonna be in the movies. Yeah It's an observation plane. All right You won't need pictures. I can tell him how things look well He's gonna get knocked down for sure. He's got half the commies firing at him. We should brought some of his friends Hey, he's leaving What's it got alone? Jersey, you're a bitter man ain't I though Believe me Jersey Any pilot who flies over here just to put a mug like yours on film is bucking for a section eight General Colonel Carlton here good turn him in. Yes, sir Well text what did you find? I think we can do it general thinking isn't good enough We've got to be sure okay, sir We can do it, but we got to do it fast and they got a help What about the airstrip here? I'll show you on the map our forces are grouped Here the enemy's all around. I saw a flat piece of ground. It can be cleared for a landing strip Here it isn't too long, but it'll do all right the airstrip will be built here That's right, sir Then we send out fighter planes as many as we can get in the air Yes, we have them blast everything at the north of the strip clear out all the enemy opposition for say a width of 200 300 yards so that we can fly the ammo and food in yes, sir But those box cars can be hit awful easy then the fighters will repeat the bombardment the south end of the airstrip So we can fly the wounded out clear a path at both ends. You've seen the territory text. What do you think? Well, yes, sir. I have seen a general and on paper. It looks perfect. Yeah Too bad wars aren't fought on paper Tell me about what will come out of here? Tell me how hot it was kid. Don't you want to grow up you had a coming dirty? Surrounded by yeah, you can say that again That guy is getting awful personal Got him good boy, Danny Only trouble is every time you shoot one three more jump in to take his place I once read where if the Chinese were placed for a breast and they started marching they'd never end They didn't say they were gonna march through Korea. I don't remember Jersey, yeah What are those guys digging graves ain't you the laughing boy? Hey side. I'm busy What do you want down there right in the middle of the pocket? It's an airstrip. Oh sure the kid here He ain't really a marine. He's Lana Turner. So help me the Air Force is gonna fly in ammo and fly out the wounded when So as it's finished, I guess Sergeant did anybody inform the fly boys from the wild blue yonder that in five days We're gonna be running right up our own backs war days Hardly give them a chance to enjoy the view How those engineers got that airstrip finished? I'll never know but they did it and the Air Force started coming Even transports were weaving out of their pattern to sweep the commies for us Made us feel pretty good to know that we hadn't been forgotten But then we always had the reassurance that the commies hadn't forgotten us either In fact, they were getting chumier and chumier and we weren't the only ones who were worried about holding the airstrip Get those planes loaded fast. We're doing a good job Colonel. Oh, thanks major easy with those wounded easy, but fast How long you think your men can hold the airstrip? 36 hours that all lose the far end of the airstrip by tomorrow night. How many more wounded? Oh, we got 700 lined up more coming in. All right, Lieutenant get that plane rolling We'll get them all out major and then what? That's a good question major a Real good question those commies are pushing and pushing. Yeah, you guys got any ammo not much Sarge ammo, I'll see if I can scratch them up and they fire so fast and it's cold Hey, we got a pullback where we're getting cut off. Come on. Let's move Kid Phil Look, I I got a hole in my stomach kids. They're shooting kids shut up We got to get them out of here come on man come on save your breath Danny There are no come on up here. No ammo. We did the kids hurt bad Well, what do you expect me to do me and Jersey want to take the kid back get him on one of those planes Oh The commies already got the end of the airstrip to maybe three planes ago. They're four miles from the strip. I Hurt Danny. I'll take it easy kid. We'll get you back Burning Danny it Burning hot. I'll never make it. Well, go on. What are you waiting for? Go on try it, okay? Make a stretcher Jersey. Yeah, sure. How are you kid? I'm fine Danny fine No for a while. I thought something was wrong with my legs, but they're fine. I I Don't feel nothing We rigged up a stretcher and rolled the kid onto it. It was a long walk and kind of hopeless We thought we'd give it a try the commies were still blasting So we had a crouch low a couple of times we had to hit the dirt the kid took it. There was nothing else He could do Trouble well, it took us two and a half hours to cover the first mile Any it don't make sense We'll never get there in time. You got any better suggestions. No, none and keep walking The cold Danny Must be 10 below You know something it's a cold. I'm seeing things. I Think I see a Jeep. Hey, it is a Jeep. Must be an observation post. Come on Hey, hey lieutenant Yeah, what's your trouble? This your Jeep sir? Yes, I'd like to borrow it my buddy shot up We're trying to get him evacuated. I'm afraid you're a little late. See down there over to the left. Yes, sir That's the last plane and it's loading up fast with your Jeep You're welcome to try there's a walkie-talkie in the back the call of the field is black Mary. This is station orange Like Mary. This is orange over like Mary over. We got a wounded Marine. We're bringing them in hold that plane Listen soldier my buddy shot up. So hold that plane I'm sorry major, but hold that plane You carry on the conversation me and my pals are in a hurry and say for the heat Turn oh, what do you think hold it wait a couple more minutes for that casual eat from station orange All right, but the Cummings are shooting holes on the plane right now and duck. I told the general I was getting every wounded Marine out of here. There's still one left One more minutes and a calculated risk becomes wait a minute. Wait a minute Yeah, yeah, here comes a Jeep I get this man loaded quick. I told you we'd make it kid. Yeah, don't forget the right Phil Thanks, okay. Come on. Come on. Get him aboard and let's get out of here Clean sheets clean food and nurses man think of those nurses Man we got other things to think about come on Wallace linked to the DuPont cavalcade of America starring John Lotton And now Bill Hamilton speaking for the DuPont company You probably think of anti-freeze for your car only in cold weather But all through the heat of last summer your anti-freeze was on its way to you To make this year's supply of DuPont zero and Xerex anti-freezes Manufacture began as long ago as last March Well, why all this haste when the first snowfall was perhaps seven or eight months away Well, it's to serve you better So that your dealer will have it when you need it and Also to serve you better your local zero and Xerex dealer has set this week aside as anti-freeze week To remind you that now is the time to get your car ready for winter Before the first freeze jams up the service station Right now your dealer is better prepared to give you prompt and thorough inspection service Among the products that help him service your car better are zero and Xerex anti-freezes Two of DuPont better things for better living Through chemistry Now we return to our cavalcade play one way out starring John Lund The last plane pulled out and 15,000 of us gave it one long look and then went back to work Somehow some way the air force managed to get 4,690 shot up guys back home Frankly There were a lot of us that wouldn't have minded getting a little round hole and save the arm with a leg Just so we could have been on that plane I know it doesn't sound like big hero talk But nobody's a hero when it's 18 below and the ground is crawling with commies. They want to shoot your head off Well, there was no sense sticking around. So we had an orderly retreat That's official talk for we hauled out and hauled out fast Okay, okay keep it moving those those ranks Marie This is no dance. I wonder where he learns all those clever scenes. They got a joke book written especially for sergeants I didn't know sergeants could read keep moving keep moving. Hey serge Cold enough for you. Danny. You must have memorized the book. What are you talking about jay-z? It's a little joke between me and Danny. Let me in on it. I can use a laugh It ain't a laugh kind of a joke Figured you got any idea where we're headed a place called a choice tin reservoir. Why? You're gonna join up with the eight they holding the reservoir Sars time Well, then why because we want to do it the hard way keep moving keep moving It was a four day march to that reservoir and we had to pack a wild animals nipping at our heels Animals armed with everything the commies could get to their little friends We were tired and we were cold and we were beat The only thing that kept us going was the fact that at the end of the march was the reservoir and the 8th army Sure, we hated to run but they had us five to one and we wanted to even up to fight make it four to one So we marched and swore and froze and shot over our shoulders And hoped that we could hold out Hold out until headquarters could come up with a miracle Come in You sent for me, sir. I'll sit down. Thanks. Thank you, sir Here's the problem those 15,000 guys are marching this way in 24 hours. They'll arrive here at the reservoir. Yeah The 8th is on this side of the reservoir. They're heading to this point But that won't do any good, sir Because that puts the reservoir between them communication says that the commies are right on the heels of the marine That's right, but they'll murder them. Our boys won't have one chance in the house Unless we can get them across the reservoir and the bridge is out. It's blown into a million pieces. I know Sir, we got those wounded out But our planes are shot up and so are our pilots. There's no place to land no place to build a strip We can't airlift them out. I know so we'll do the next best thing. We'll drop them a bridge. Of course, it will drop them a What a bridge can you get me eight flying box cars? We haven't got five that'll take off I need eight. I need them loaded and taking off within 24 hours 36 at the outside loaded with what? Each one will have one span of a bridge you said those marines had an engineer company Yes, sir. Well, we'll drop them a bridge and let them walk across the reservoir That's all colonel Yes Me and jersey were part of an advance guard the first caught sight of the reservoir it felt like Well, the first time you kiss your girl after a fight Then we took another look and saw water Miles and miles of it and no bridge and no way to circle it And that felt like the first time you kissed your girl and when you opened your eyes She was looking over your shoulder at another guy Oh, we were sick So sick we wanted to die Call it marching all that dreaming And then to find it we got no place to turn looks like sherman was right, huh? He didn't put it strong enough for Hey, dandy you jersey There's some hot coffee. You better get some. Okay hot coffee. Come on. Do you talk me into it? Well, it's been a great war, huh jersey while at last Danny Yeah, you think we got a chance Not much unless we can swim And it's a lot of miles of water. I ain't gonna surrender dandy. I ain't gonna do that You'll do what you're told. Yeah, sure Hey carbo, where's the coffee over on your left? Thanks. No, I see it Man hot coffee. Yeah, no lineup either Looks like mud Tastes like mud too, but hot keep moving Always keep moving Guy gets himself free stripes on his arm and all he thinks is keep moving. Hey, let's flop here, huh? Never see so much snow Yeah, it's a cold too Where I come from in montana We have snow only it's whiter cleaner Smells better too In jersey we get dirty snow Say jersey Uh, can I see that picture of your sister? Why I just want to look at it. No, just a second. I Where did I it's not in my wallet in the left pocket? Hey, you're right. How did you? Yeah Yeah Tell me about it jersey What's the tell she's his sister? Well, uh, what she looked like in the morning Lousy Oh, you're a great help You can keep the picture. Oh, thanks She ever went a beauty contest jersey. Are you nuts with those freckles? I like freckles Hey, I don't hear any gunfire Relax, it'll be back. Those guys are off to get us and they ain't gonna give up I'd vote for her. Yeah, good for you Hey Danny Over there Over the hill planes Flying boxcars You think maybe they're gonna airlift us out unless they can land on water and those things that got wheels Yeah, but there's circling see that they're getting ready for a drop. Yeah more ammo I suppose so or reinforcements. That's something we can use from that height Yeah, you're right. They're close to japan. Maybe big guns. We got guns We need a way out Maybe boats There they go. They're opening their bellies. Hey, they're dropping something jersey something big Hey, they're not guns Danny Look at the size of those shoots Hey You think it could be a bridge? Ah, you're out of your mind Hey, those are those are spans count them three five six eight Those are parts of a bridge a big bridge big enough to stretch across the whole reservoir Yeah, brother when those guys think they think big oh look at them come down jersey Big enough to walk a whole army across We're gonna get out of here. Well. I hope we get out fast. I'm gonna kind of this side is starting to get crowded That bridge came floating right out of heaven Suddenly the sun came out and it got warm And nobody was cold or tired anymore We packed up throw a few rounds into the commies and walked across the bridge A few hours later each one of us bent down and padded the ground on the other side And then the marching started again Two full days and nights And of course the sergeant had to pick me in jersey for an advance guard After all if there were any commies up ahead. He didn't want us to miss the fun Hey, you think this road is mine ain't you the optimist I wonder how long it'll take the commies to build another bridge and run up our backs soon enough jersey down What's wrong coming around the bend I caught the glint of a banner The first one is mine Hold it jerseys. Who goes there? Soldier You nearly got your teeth propped with your own serial number. Oh wise marine, huh? Hey, what are you guys doing around here? We're the first marine the first say we're supposed to meet you joes. I'm with the eighth army Well, here we are soldier And very glad to meet the eighth army. What took you so long? Well to tell you the truth It was such a nice day. We thought we'd walk And that's the story We joined up with the eighth turned around and let the commies know just what we were doing in Korea The rest you read in the papers We won the battle not the war yet, but the battle and me Well, like I said My name is Danny Parker and I'm alive Our thanks to john london the cavalcade players for tonight's story one way out And now bill hamilton speaking for the dupont company Sometime or other to ease the discomfort of a cold you may have rubbed on your chest the sacred incense of the temples of india Prized as a perfume and medicine by the ancient persians and Babylonians Known to the emperor justinian as kafura In our language, it's camphor Either pure or as an ingredient of ointments and salves You pay only a few cents for it and thereby hangs a tale as they say One of the most fascinating stories in all the history of chemical discovery camphor Almost all of it used to come from the island of formosa The men who harvested the trees there often lost their lives doing it They often lost their heads in fact for the reason was overrun by a savage tribe of headhunters And then in 1895 Japan won a war against china. The japanese took formosa They had the island's valuable camphor trees all to themselves and the price went up Until it reached nearly four dollars a pound The search for a synthetic camphor that would be steady in supply and price led chemists down a strange trail The trail led backward Backwards from camphor to a substance called pineen Backwards from pineen to turpentine And backwards from turpentine to the pine stumps dotting farmers fields in the south Today america is completely independent of any foreign source of camphor The du pont company sells it at the present time for about 54 cents a pound Which is a lot better than four dollars This is one of the things chemical science does It helps mankind in the age old war against scarcity And by increasing the supply chemistry is often able to level out prices Chest sands for your winter cold and dozens of other things are better and less expensive today Because of synthetic camphor one of the du pont companies better things for better living through chemistry Once again, here's our star john lung Ladies and gentlemen, you heard the story you heard the number of wounded Figure for yourself how many quarts of plasma were used Now figure how many more are needed and tomorrow morning go to your blood bank Give to help those who are helping you for it may be your blood That saves the man who is saving your way of life Tonight's du pont cavalcade was written by david harman and was based on the article one way out by benjamin blackman Published by air force magazine original music was composed by ardent cornwell conducted by donald boreys The program was directed by john zoller with our star john lung You heard stops cotsworth as jersey dick york as phil dan aco as sarge ed begley as the general and larry blyden as techs John lung can currently be seen in the universal international picture titled just across the street in which he has co-starred with ansher This is sigh harris reminding you to be with us next week when the du pont cavalcade will present the saga of jerry o bryan The exciting story of a dynamic irishman who led the men of main against a proud british sloop of war with astonishing results Our star denise oakete The du pont cavalcade of america came to you tonight from the belasco theater in new york city And is sponsored by the du pont company of wilmington delaware makers of better things for better living through chemistry Tonight hear both fibber magie and molly and two for the money on nbc