OPERATION "PIPE DREAM", 24TH INFANTRY DIVISION TRAINING, KOREA Part 3

Description

19 June: RV, men at .30 water-cooled MG. In background, a hill covered with smoke. MLS, line of men on hill in wooded area fire MGs. CU, man firing MG while his other hand feeds bulllets into the piece. MS, another two men with cigarettes dangling from their mouths as they fire .30 water-cooled gun. MS, the same two men. One man starts loading a fresh belt of ammo. MS, man at a .50 cal MG as another man pushes empty shells away from gun. MS, firing .50 cal MG. MS, three men at .50 cal MG. Loading is completed; men start firing. Other MSs, men firing MGs. RV, two men on hill watch an attack on a hill in the distance. Plane flies over. Napalm bomb is dropped and explodes; another plane follows. MS, several men with flamethrowers on their back move forward. Cut-ins, LSs as men (K Co, 5th Inf Regt) run across field to attack hill. 20 June: LS, as men advance across rice paddy to the hill. MLSs, as men make their way up hill. CU, soldier firing rifle rapidly. MS, man kneels, fires a BAR. Another man is to his L. Man behind sandbags fires rifle. MS, man with flamethrower discharging blast. MLS, men advancing up hill. Some of the grass still burning from flamethrower. MLS, men advancing up through the smoke. MLS, man on hill firing rifles. Men in foreground are loading. Seq: Lt Gen Edwards M. Almond, Brig Gen Min on roadway having discussion, checking relief map at Kansas Line Area, 35th Regt S ROK. CU, sign, "5X CP." Radio operator Pvt V.R. Kountz in jeep listening in on walkie talkie, tent in background. MS, as he writes down message. 27 June: The same operator at walkie-talkie in jeep. CU, speaking into microphone. Taking message to USAF jeep nearby and giving message to Lt Robert I. Marshall attached to the 5th ROK Div. The officer transmits the message over microphone.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities