EIGHTH ARMY, TAEGU, KOREA ; LT GEN WALKER, SOMEWHERE IN KOREA ; GEN JAMES DOOLITTLE, TOKYO, JAPAN ; 1ST CALVARY AMPHIBIOUS LANDINGS, KOREA Part 1

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 8116-1 ADC 8116 SOURCE: AFCF (A CODES) Card 1 of 3 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 669 ea Silent RG 111 Accession III_NAV_210 EIGHTH ARMY Taegu, Korea - 22 July 1950 (A=2486) Few M-26 tanks standing in field ready to test fire on range near Taegu. One of the tanks in stationary position firing its big gun. Two men crouched on the ground in fg. Short pan, to another stationary tank. MLS, M-26 Pershing tank firing its big gun. Man in the top of tank gives signal for firing and then looks through binoculars. Three men atop tank. MLS, two men in turret of tank. LT GEN WALKER No location listed-Somewhere in Korea (A-2479) MCU, Lt Gen Walton H Walker looking at a map which is set on table. A Capt Hook, AF, is explaining map to general. CU, General as he listens. Gen Walker shaking hands with Maj Dean E Hess. RV over shoulder,' of Gen Walker and Maj Hess looking at map. Follow shot, as Gen Walker walks out of HQ. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/kfr Signal Corps ADC 8116-2 ADC 8116 SOURCE: AFCF (A CODES) Card 2 of 3 FILM: ARCH E APC MP 669' ea Silent RG 111 GEN JAMES DOOLITTLE Accession III_NAV_210 Tokyo, Japan = 12 July 1950 (A-2481) Sign over entrance, "Doolittle Field". MS, Gen Doolittle in civilian clothes poses with his son, 1st Lt John P Doolittle, 5th Air Force. (grounds Imperial Hotel) LS, Gen Doolittle with his son and Donald W Morrison, Aviation Manager Shell Oil Co. Gen Doolittle shaking hands with Lt Col Van Meter ( A F P10). The general scanning the sky and laughing, To his right, Lt Col Van Meter, and seen partly to his left, his son. The general and his party at Hibya Park. General and his son pose with several Japanese in native costumes at the entrance of Doolittle Field. LEMS, Mrs James H Doolittle, wife of the general, Mrs John P Doolittle, wife of Lt Doolittle, and the lieutenant's two children posing on grounds of the Imperial Hotel. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/kfr Signal corps 111 ADC 8116-3 ADC 8116 SOURCE: AFCF (A CODES) Card 3 of 3 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 669 ea Silent RG 111 Accession III_NAV_210 1ST CAVALRY AMPHIBIOUS LANDINGS Korea R 19 July 1950 (A-2487) LS, open countryside, mountains in bg. At the foot of the mountain, smoke rising up. (This may be a burning Korean village as noted in captions). H Pan shot, US soldiers standing in chow line. LS, building, which is noted as South Korean fortification on the OSIPSCH-ON River. VCUs, demolition charges strapped and hung on bridge. Pan shot from demolition strapped to side of bridge to bridge proper. A truck with some Koreans in ito (supposedly retreating). MS, four exhausted South Koreans seated on steps, MS, as Gen Hobart Gay, 1st Cav Div Commander, comes up ship's ladder of the McKinley. Shot from the McKinley as a litter patient, man stricken with appendicitis, is transferred from destroyer under way. LS, rendevous of LCVPs, LCMs, and other craft, at Pohang. LSTs standing in Pohang harbor. Landing craft moving in fgo Shots of the waterfront in Pohang from landing craft. Troops already on shore. Men going ashore from landing craft. "G" Co, 5th Cav Regt, moving out marching along the dock. 8th Cav Regt Units assembled on pier. Head on shot, truck coming off an LCVP, Group of men standing about on dock. NOTE: Some neg scratches. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/kfr

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities