Air Operations Aboard USS Valley Forge (CV 45) at Sea off Korea; Activities in Inchon Harbor (Invasion), Korea Part 1

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KOREAN WAR, 1950-1953 -- AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS -- INCHON 111 ADC 8289-1 ADC 8289 SOURCE: AFCF (US Navy Shipment #20) Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 551' ea Silent RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ACTIVITIES IN INCHON HARBOR (INVASION) Korea; Sept 1950 CU, little nude Korean girl seated in the dirt crying. VSs, of ruins, Inchon area. LS, damaged houses, house burning in bg. Short shot, Koreans pushing boxes on conveyor from LST. Shot, showing destroyer moving past; sunlit harbor. In the fg, 20mm gun. MS, twin 40mm guns being fired, several rounds. LSs, shells dropping in the water, probably exploding mines. Casualty in stretcher being carried along deck. LS, LST firing rockets toward shore. Another landing craft firing rockets. Shots of the area almost completely blotted out by smoke. LS, LVTs, loaded with troops, going in. In the bg, landing craft firing rockets. Dense smoke blotting out the coastline. LS, fires on shore seen from the water; several craft moving in. LSs, from the water, showing fires on the distant shore. Few LST nosed-in at beach; a bulldozer is clearing the dirt in front. HLSs, men and supplies inland from the beach. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY FB/ew Signal Corps 111 ADC 8289-2 ADC 8289 SOURCE: AFCF (US Navy Shipment #20) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH E APC MP 551' ea Silent RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ACTIVITIES IN INCHON HARBOR (INVASION) (CONT'D) Korea; Sept 1950 (CONT'D) Marines carrying woman casualty, a Korean woman walks alongside the litter. Atop deck of LST, a tractor towing an Athey trailer loaded with shell cases. Marine carrying woman casualty on litter, a Korean follows. Korean casualties on litters in compound, medics are treating Korean woman. An SK interrogating a Korean civilian. The interpreter punctuates his remarks by poking the Korean with a rolled-up wad of paper. Koreans, men and women, seated in compound. In the fg, a marine and two American soldiers. CU, mangled corpse in rubble. CU, of rubble. In the fg, a severed hand. MS, soldiers putting ammo cases on conveyor. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY FB/ew

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities