GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR VISITS FRONT Part 1

Description

Summary: MS, Guard presenting arms. CU, Brig Gen Joseph S Bradley, smoking pipe, seated in jeep. CU, Main Gate sentry hand saluting (Camera scratch in this footage). Gen MacArthur shaking hands with unidentified Maj Gen. MacArthur seated in jeep with Gen Matthew B Ridgway, Col Storey, and unident Maj Gen. The general with officers at embankment. MS, Ridway chatting with MacArthur. MacArthur, Ridgway and others, leaving in jeep. (scratch throughout) RELIGIOUS SERVICE AT FRONT.: Wonju, Korea: 01/26/1951: Seq: Capt Lewis Sheen, chaplain, 9th Regt, 2nd Div, holds services at front lines. Shots, men during the service. CU, Sheen. Tanks, 9th Regt Tank Co, moving across snow-covered roads, moving twd Yoju. (dirt marks) RECAPTURE OF SUWON.: 35th Inf; 25th Div, Korea: 01/26/1951: Soldier skirts damaged house. CU, native lying on ground. CU, Corpse, an old man, face down. RV, Inf entering Suwon, moving through the city, most of which has been damaged. Brig Gen Bradley, Asst Div CO speaking to Capt at North Gate. MS, of soldier reading mail at wall; other men sitting on the ground. Soldiers search Koreans. Few Koreans holding their hands up in welcome. A prisoner is brought in. He sits on the ground, bows his head, appears to be crying. American tank coming through north gate of the city. The tank going under arch. Brig Gen Barth (no first name listed) 25th Div Arty, CO conferring with Lt Col Kellerher, 35th Regt. CO, in jeep. S Korean soldiers of 2nd ROK who escaped from prison camp north of Seoul are interrogated by intelligence officers of the 35th. MS, Korean being questioned through interpreter. Men of Fox Co, 2nd Bn, moving over snow-covered field, pausing, on the alert. CU, of one man standing in snow. Two prisoners squatting on the ground with hands on their heads while US soldiers stand guard. LS, men walking across snow-covered field. In the fg, soldier guarding two prisoners. Fox Co, 2nd Bn, pushing twd Suwon, supported by tanks of the 89th Tank Bn. LS, the men walking on partly snow-covered road, followed by tanks. RA, men on march photographed from moving tank. RV, men, followed by tanks, as they move up.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities