KOREAN WAR. RUINS OF KUMCHON AND 24TH DIV CONVOY MOVING THROUGH KUMCHONON WAY TO TAEJON ; LT GEN WALKER, TAEGU ; ATROCITIES, TAEJON ; GEN ALMOND VISITS 11TH AIRBORNE, N OF KIMPO AFB Part 1

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 8373-1 ADC 8373 SOURCE: AFCF (A-2567) Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 766 ¥ ea Silent RG 111 Accession III_NAV_210 KOREAN WAR, RUINS OF KUMCHON AND 24TH DIV CONVOY MOVING THROUGH KUMCHON ON WAY TO TAEJON 28, 29, 30 Sept 50 Wrecked bridge. Convoy fording stream. MLS, wrecker truck pulling disabled 2 1/2 ton truck through rubble-strewn area. Half-track towing 2-wheel trailer turning corner in wrecked street. 2 1/2 ton truck pulling tank trailer moving through entirely destroyed area. LS, wreckage. MLS, two Koreans riding ponies. Korean motorcycle and sidecar with flag moving past, followed by vehicles of convoy. HLS, long line of vehicles moving along dirt road. RA, same. RA, few vehicles moving away from camera along dirt road; mountains in bg. Troops of the 24th in vehicles entering Taejon to cheers of Korean civilians. A captured Russian scout car is in the procession. Trucking shots Konean kids at ide of road several K MPs. Maj Gen Church and officers inspecting ditch where soldiers were shot. Halftrack with troops coming through country road; Koreans cheering. Truck, followed by high speed tractor pulling covered gun, moving toward and to left of camera. Two soldiers at sign: "You Are Now Entering Taejon. Courtesy 19th RCT". CU, sign: "End of Taejon. Courtesy Air Force". In the bg jeeps, some soldiers standing, vs, completely destroyed Taejon: some vehicles move through. HS, portion of city, almost completely leveled; only few buildings standing. Shot, first C-47 to land in Taejon on airstrip. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, N Y FB/kfr Signal Corps 111 ADC 8373-2 ADC 8373 SOURCE: AFCF (A-2567) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 766 ¥ ea Silent RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 KOREAN WAR, LT GEN WALKER Taegu 30 Sept 1950 FS, C-47 taxiing and being signalled to parking position. Gen Walton H Walker getting out of plane, greeting officers. MS, Gen John H Church, with back to camera chatting with Gen Walker. Correspondent Lee Ferrera, INS, making notes as he interviews Walker. Walker putting on sunglasses, adjusting helmet, walking toward jeep. ATROCITIES Taejon - 30 Sept Shots of an estimated 400 found dead in prison yard. (majority are SKs, few Americans). CUs, some of the corpses with their hands tied behind their backs. Officer pointing to a corpse. vs, bodies in ditch. LS, bodies lying in open ditches atop hill. CU, two corpses lying in ditch; one sitting up. Flies buzzing around the bodies. CU, hand of corpse. CU RV, corpse sitting in ditch. Flies buzzing around head. Pan from officer to corpse in ditch. GEN ALMOND VISITS 11TH AIRBORNE N of Kimpo AFB # 1 Oct Gen Edward M Almond in jeep with Col F S Bowen, CO, 187th Airborne RCT (11th Airborne). Gen Almond talks to Maj M C Shelley, S-3 Sect, 187th. Gen Almond talks to SFC Ulysses Perry near 187th RCT front. Gen Almond, Col Bowen, Maj Shelley look out over field. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, N Y FB/kfr

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities