KOREAN WAR Part 1

Description

Summary: Lt General George Stratemeyer talking with reporter. General Douglas MacArthur chatting with Brig Gen John H Church. MS, Gen MacArthur speaking to woman reporter, Marguerite Higgins, NY Herald Tribune. The general and officers walking on airstrip. MS, MacArthur standing near his plane, "Bataan". MacArthur bidding good-bye to Gen Church. FS, MacArthur climbing aboard plane. MS, Gen stratemeyer standing at gangway to plane and then speaking to a man, probably a reporter. LS, Koreans looking on. 24TH INFANTRY REPLACEMENTS GOING TO KOREA BY AIR.: Ashiya Air Base, Kyushu, Japan: No Date. LS, C-47 plane with troops waiting to get aboard. Lt Col J Shaw, 24th Inf, giving instructions to Maj MacMaken and Capt Hatfield. CU, Pfc Alfred Tessitore seated on a box. MS, Warrant Officer, SR Saunders. Men standing about, ready to go. LS, Gen Wolf, Air Force, and other Air Force generals arriving at Ashiya in C-47. General getting into staff car; staff cars and escorts driving away. KOREAN WAR.: Taejon, Korea. Crowd in front of the railroad station during rain. Refugees coming through the crowds from the station. Refugees standing about, talking. People in front of the station, some of them hold umbrellas. A little boy with a half-eaten peach in his hand. CU, of the boy holding the fruit, staring at the camera, another boy to right. Refugees with their belongings standing about. American equipment on flatcars in Taejon Station. MS, two men seated in vehicle on flatcar. The two soldiers in vehicle are, l to r, Pfc Donald Worley and Pfc James Raeger. MST Pfc Thomas Usher standing next to truck on flatcar. The name of the station is Sozongnyi. Sign in fg. Troops and officers standing behind hill. Man standing with bazooka. Two other men standing about. Bazooka team on crest of hills loading and firing bazooka(located south of Osan in Sdgon village). Pvt Kenneth Shadrick immediately after he had been hit by machine gun fire. A soldier is trying to stop the flow of blood(he is one of the first to be killed in combat with the enemy). MLS, Flatcars coming in Taejon station loaded with American equipment. MSs, soldiers equipment on the flatcars. Soldiers are seated on vehicles. Korean talking to soldiers on the train. Korean soldiers getting aboard the flatcars. Pan, Koreans and Americans standing on flatcars. MS, motion picture unit truck on flatcar (soft). MS, Korean soldier and wife seated on Flatcar.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities