FIRST PURPLE HEART OF KOREAN CAMPAIGN, TOKYO GENERAL HOSPITAL, TOKYO, JAPAN ; KOREAN WAR, WOLGYONG ; MAJ GENERAL WILLIAM F DEAN Part 1

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 8085-1 ADC 8085 SOURCE: AFCF (A=2461) Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 584 v ea Silent RG 111 FIRST PURPLE HEART OF KOREAN CAMPAIGN Accession III-NAV-210 Tokyo General Hospital Tokyo, Ja an 0 8 July 1950 Sequence of a ceremony: Col Joseph B Russel, CO of the hospital, reads the order. The Purple Heart is presented by Maj Gen Erskine Hume, Chief Surgeon, to Sgt Leroy Dean. A brief speech is made by the Hon Yong-joo Kim, head of the Korean diplomatic mission in Japan. CU of Purple Heart on Sgt Dean's jacket. 7 JULY 1950 MS , CU, soldier sleeping on the ground. Soldiers in background digging foxholes. LMSs, CUs, soldiers of the 24th Inf Div digging foxholes on road, on the frontline defense, a few miles south of Pyongtek. Korean refugees on roadway. Deserted streets of Chunan. Deserted shops and houses. American troops in trucks. American troops marching through Chunan towards Pipiray. American troops arriving in Pipiray and turning into fields to move into position. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY FB/ew Signal Corps 1 C 85-2 ADC 8085 SOURCE: AFCF (A-2461) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 584° ea Silent KOREAN WAR RG 111 Welgyong 7 July 1950 Accession III-NAV-210 105mm howitzers in action firing at enemy in village in South Korea. Officer observing firing thru field glasses. LS, deserted railroad station at Chunan. MS, LS, medics moving American wounded from jeeps. MS, blanket removed from face of dead soldier, then covered again. MSs, soldier shaving under a shed. Korean hut. Camouflaged 105mm howitzers on edge of field. A truck camouflaged with natural vegetation. Soldiers in camouflaged truck standing near 50 cal machine gun. MAJ GENERAL WILLIAM F DEAN 7 July 1950 (No Location) MS of Gen Dean, Mr John Muccio, American Ambassador, Mr E Drumright, Civilian Counselor to Korean Embassy, awaiting arrival of plane. LS, Gen Walton H Walker, CG, Eighth Army walking from plane and being greeted. CU, of Gen Walker. MS, Mr Muccio. General Walker listening as General Dean talks. CU of General Walker. MS, Mr Muccio and General Walker. MS, General Walker getting into car. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER 35-11 35th AVE

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities