EVACUATION OF HUNGNAM, KOREA Part 2

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 8611 ADC 8611 SOURCE: AFCF (US NAVY SHIPMENT #52) FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 860' Ea Silent EVACUATION OF HUNGNAM Korea - CPU #2 Proj 50-19 LST in harbor. Few refugees hurrying along dirt-covered road. Camera follows two little tots running. Men firing mortars. L & Pan Shots, LSTs nosed to the beach. LCM pulling out loaded with troops of 3rd Inf and 7th Inf Div. Troops walking past. Pan Shot, landing barges alongside of transport. Men are going up ship's ladder to deck. HMS, RAdm James H Doyle, Vice Adm Arthur D Struble, Gen Edward M Almond on bridge of the USS Mt McKinley observing operations. RG 111 Shot from the water, terrific explosion on distant shore. Accession III-NAV-210 LS, series of many explosions. (Blowing up of main docks by UDT) A tank loaded with boxes, barracks bags, boarding landing craft. A tracked vehicle, light tank, but no turret, pulling a trailer entering LST. Shot from land- ing craft of smoking shoreline and landing craft and LVTs lined up along shore. MS, man loading, firing mortar. MS, ROKs being counted as they form in line for loading; the men doing the counting are American soldiers. CU, gob sitting on the beach petting little black dog. RV, some men in LVT as it rolls into water. The sun is striking the water. (Note: Probably the evacuation of the perimeter at Hun nam.) DICTOA

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities