GENEREAL ACTIVITIES, USS MANCHESTER FIRING ON BEACH AT SONGJIN, KOREA Part 1

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 8793-1 ADC 8793 SOURCE: AFCF (US NAVY SHIPMENT 58) Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 915' ea Silent GENERAL ACTIVITIES, USS MANCHESTER FIRING ON BEACH AT Songjin, Korea LS, pall of smoke over water. MLS, Headon View, of section of the Manchester as its 6-in guns are elevated and fired. (Note: This was shot at dusk. It can be used for night scene.) Silhouette of the ship hove to. 14 March 51 Looking down on turret of 16-in guns aboard the Missouri as they are fired at supply point at Chongjin. Then two turrets of 16-in guns being fired. CU, spotter looking through binoculars. CU, sailor speaking into mike. Silhouette of a man on deck® In bg the face of a lighted searchlight. Looking twd bow of Manchester as a Sikorsky H - 5 helicopter hovers over ship. AVS, Manchester firing salvos in Wonsan harbor. AV, showing the entire ship as salvos are fired. (These scenes were shot at dusk. Can be printed for night) RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY ERS/ew Signal Corps 111 ADC 8793-2 ADC 8793 SOURCE: AFCF (US NAVY SHIPMENT 58) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 915 ea Silent GENERAL ACTIVITIES, USS MANCHESTER FIRING ON BEACH AT (CONT) Songjin, Korea; 14 March 51 (CONT) Officer gets into helicopter on deck of Manchester; helicopter taking off. (This is an attempt to rescue pilot of a Panther jet which was hit by flak.) Some AVS, of Korean terrain and buildings, unidentified. AV, of the Manchester hove to. AV, as the Manchester fires salvo. MS, showing the blackened barrels after rapid firing, and then more firing of the 6-in guns of the Manchester. (Very Good, These shots were made from the fwd deck looking twd superstructure.) MS, showing the blackened guns on two turrets. Empty 6=in shellcases on deck® RG 111 16 March Accession III-NAV-210 Wounded S Korean sailor is transferred from minesweeper to the Mancheste The minesweeper is directly alongside. HS, as wounded sailor is carried to sick bay. The minesweeper was shelled while trying to sweep a channel in Wonsan harbor. Control Chief, 0 C McManus, painting the 20,000th round (shell) aboard Manchester. 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