River Crossing, 27th Infantry Regiment, Han River Area, Korea Part 2

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 8737-1 ADC 8737 SOURCE: AFCF (A=2880) Card 1 of 5 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 858 ea Silent RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 RIVER CROSSING, 27TH INF REGT Han R Area, Korea, 7 Mar 51 MS, FV, as men fire 4.2 mortar. MS, putting finder on barrel and checking range. MSs, men drop shells in mortar. Ammo men play a record on player. Tilt-up from photograph to face of mortarman. Platoon fire mission: mortar is fired. CU, man at phone, gives fire command. A mortar squad takes time out for hot chow. CU, tilt from canteen cup filled with coffee to battle=worn face of American soldier. Group, Chinese prisoners, MS, of the Chinese prisoners seated on ground. CU, dejected prisoners. CU, prisoner smoking cigarette in holder. POW with pockmarked face. CU, POW as he is questioned by SK interrogator. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1 , NY ERBS/mle KOREAN WAR, 1950-1953 -- CAMPAIGNS -- HAN RIVER 111 ADC 8737-2 ADC 8737 SOURCE: AFCF (A=2880) Card 2 of 5 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 858 ea Silent RG 111 Accession III_NAV_210 RIVER CROSSING, 27TH INF REGT Cont'd Han R Area, Korea, 7 Mar 51 Cont'd An American flag to side of screen, showing area of bridgehead opera- tions. Weary infantrymen pass camera on footbridge. LS, SK laborers filling bags with sand and debris for the 14th Engrs, who are building a bridge. An American directs the laborers. 14th Engrs constructing a ponton raft to float tanks to the bridgehead. MSs, of Engrs' faces as they work. HS, a bulldozer leveling the ground to the approach. 0mm AA gun being fired (British). An M-26 tank in fixed position firing its big gun at enemy on north bank of Han. CU, British officer looking through binocs. He puts them down; shouts. Pan , American tanks on shoreline. From atop tank as big gun is fired. To the L a 40mm AA gun being fired. A Sherman tank moving across the frozen ground. Faces of American troops as they move along muddy road. Some look grim; one smiles. American soldier with Chinese prisoners. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/mle KOREAN WAR, 1950-1953 -- CAMPAIGNS -- HAN RIVER 111 ADC 8737-3 ADC 8737 SOURCE. AFCF (A= 2880) Card 3 of 5 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 858 ea Silent RG 111 Accession III_NAV_210 RIVER CROSSING, 27TH INF REGT Cont'd Han R Area, Korea 7 Mar 51 Cont'd CU, scarred face of POW, Lt Gen Frank W Milburn, I Corps, passes through in jeep. Short flash, feet of men as they gc through mud. Men pushing assault beat into the water. Short flash, dukw under way. FS, dukw with troops entering the water, stopping, and continuing on, away from camera, Milburn talks with Brig Gen Harold near the 35th Inf Regt crossing CU, three- star plate on jeep. Shot, from moving vehicle as it passes over bridge constructed by 14th Engrs Capt tries to overcome a stubborn mule. The Capt and soldier leave with the mule and a Mongolian packhorse. CU, issue, "Stars and Stripes". The paper falls in the mud and tank treads pass over it. Treads of tank passing by. CU₂ battle=weary = soldier takes a break in the warm sun. He smiles. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/mle Signal Corps 111 ADC 8737-4 ADC 8737 SOURCE: AFCF (A=2880) Card 4 of 5 FILMS ARCH & APC MP 858 ea Silent RG 111 Accession III_NAV_210 RIVER CROSSING, 27TH INF REGT Cont'd Han R Area, Korea, 7 Mar 51 Cont'd CU, another boy with helmet off. Few troops on hill overlooking bridge over Han. LS, smoke moving up from artillery shells on mountainside, CU, lit cigarette between fingers. CU, soldier looking through binocs. LS, a twin=engine plane flies by (psychological warfare plane broadcasting S Koreans carrying household utensils moving out to hills. CU, of old man walking. CU, feet of woman as they walk. CU, enemy gun in well-hidden emplacement. MLS, two soldiers walking away from emplaced gun. Two soldiers riding a Chinese packhorse. The animal balks, they hit it with a strap. Seq: SK families suffering from the ravages of the war. In the bg, their home in ruins. Three of the family lie dead in dugout. On the left a young girl cries as she seeks to comfort her severely wounded father, an old man. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/mle Signal Corps 111 ADC 8737-5 ADC 8737 SOURCE: AFCF (A 2880) Card 5 of 5 FILM: ARCH E APC MP 858' ea Silent RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 RIVER CROSSING, 27TH INF REGT Cont'd Han R Area, Korea 7 Mar 51 Cont'd CU, of the children, women, crying. Old man as he surveys remains of ruined home. CU, old man drinking from bowl. The old man walking pasto CU, child seated on ground. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/mle

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities