HELICOPTER OPERATIONS, TAEGU, KOREA Part 3

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 8744-1 ADC 8744 SOURCE: AFCF (A-2895) Card 1 of 3 FILM: ARCH AND APC MP 929 ea Silent RG 111 Accession III_NAV_210 HELICOPTER OPERATIONS Taegu, Korea, 13 March 51 Proj 50-185 VS mechanics working on a copter (H-13-D) removing the blade and then the motor. CUs of the old and new motor as men work. The rotor blade is remounted, Men placing the blade into position. 16 March MLS, ambulance and helicopter that has just brought two paratroopers from drop zone where their backs were seriously injured. MSs, as patients are removed from litters and placed in ambulance; ambulance leaves. AVS, practice air drop by the 187th Regtl Combat Team. The chutes can be seen in the air as the planes fly by. AVs, as chutes hit the field. AVs, made from low-flying helicopter looking for injured men, as it moves slowly over the field. Helicopter passes over two medics standing near wounded man on litter. Injured man is placed in copter litter, strapped in. AVs, as copter approaches another. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY ERS/ew Signal Corps 11 DC 3744-2 ADC 8744 SOURCE: AFCF (A-2895) Card 2 of 3 RG 111 FILM: ARCH AND APC MP 929' ea Silent Accession III_NAV_210 HELICOPTER OPERATIONS (CONT'D) Taegu, Korea; 16 March 51 Proj 50-185 (CONT'D) Injured man on stretcher. Injured man being placed in copter litter of H-13D. Sign on copter "Idiot's Delight". AV, a man waving from a grounded Bell copter. CU of wounded man in copter litter. A Bell H=13D takes off field with wounded. Part of another plane in fgo CU of sign: "EUSAK Operations". Yoju, Korea; 16 March 51 H = 13D lands. Hiller Helicopter with several wounded patients lands near ambulance. Capt Homer Johnston and Lt Delbert E Drane prepare to remove the wounded man from copter. Drane and Johnston removing wounded man Sgt Yeul D Robinson from copter. A Korean carrying water buckets suspended from an "A" frame, watches the mechanics work, CU, Korean watching. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35=11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY ERS/ew Signal Corps 111 ADC 8744-3 ADC 8744 SOURCE: AFCF (A-2895) Card 3 of 3 FILM: ARCH AND APC MP 929 ea Silent RG 111 Accession III_NAV_210 HELICOPTER OPERATIONS (CONT'D) Yoju, Korea; 16 March 51 Proj 50-185 (CONT'D) Sgt Robinson points out the different types of tail shaft, differences in tail blade in comparison with the Bell helicopter, CU of an "A" frame with sign: "2nd Helicopter Detachment Operation". A Bell H-13D going down to the ground, hovering low over the ground landing. A man drops to his knees as copter lands. Man removing cover from litter. CU of wounded man in litter, his head and face are bandaged. CU of Korean litter bearer, The wounded man is removed from litter attached to copter, Two Korean bearers carrying the wounded man away. Another wounded man is carried by two Korean laborers, taken into tent. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35=11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY ERS/ew

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities