ARTILLERY BLASTING HILL NO 477 Part 1

Description

Summary: LSs, Hill 477 on 3rd Div west front. Shells are breaking on the hill. Pan dead Chinese. Two MCUs, dead Chinese LS & MS, top of hill 477. CU, An entrance in top of hill. The Chinese dug out a large bunker which holds about ninety men. Pan, looking down from top of the hill. Pan, of surrounding mountainous country. Men of L Co, 15th Inf 3rd Div, eat their dinners after taking the hill. Some of the men wave to the camera. Two negro soldiers hold two captured enemy MGs. One is German, the other Japanese. MS, Chinese corpse lying face down. Pan, to another. Four men putting water into canteens. Men sitting around. Several of them look like Koreans. MS, two men lying in slit trench. Several slit trenches; one alongside the other. Can't see the men's faces, probably sleeping. Right above the slit trenches a 57mm recoil rifle. Negro patrol on Hill 477 getting their final briefing before starting down to village of Tokson-ni. Soldier pointing to the map. The men get up and start down hill on way to the village. PATROL INTO TOKSON-NI.: NW Chorwon, Korea: 10/08/1951: Same squad making their way through dense woods. LS, looking across the field to a house in the village, the patrol approaches cautiously. MS, several men moving toward a house covered with straw. Squad walking through field on way back. Sgt of the patrol making his report to CO of "L" Co. Looking down hill, a tired still photographer with the patrol climbing back. Negro soldiers of the patrol back on Hill 477 playing cards. MCU, soldier writing letter.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities