27TH INF TROOPS (WOLFHOUNDS) UNDER FIRE Part 1

Description

Summary: LS, US tank followed by M-16 multiple gun halftrack moves twd camera. CU, halftrack of motor carriage as it moves past. Head-on, Infmen running toward camera near wrecked bridge twd & to r. of camera. Several takes, another man running across open field under fire, carries his rifle and runs twd and to r. Another man does same. LS, troops Co A crossing field. Man talking into phone of walkie-talkie which is carried by another man. CU man lying on the ground pinned down by fire. He puts his head down. CU radio operator. Another man lying on the ground, also pinned down by fire. Another two men pinned down; they are watching. Men carrying a litter and rifle running away from camera. LS, another man running away from camera and then into ditch. LS, across open field, smoke moving up in distance. MLS, men taking cover behind wreckage. MS, three soldiers cover in wreckage. Smoke in distant bg. MS, man resting his rifle on wrecked wall, fires. MS, few men move by, r. to l. (fast) White smoke from bomb on mountain in bg; men walk by in fg. LS, men making their way across frozen rice paddy. MS, soldier hit by sniper lying in water of rice paddy, attended by another soldier. The man is feeling casualty's pulse. Man sloshing through rice paddy. Men carrying a litter walks twd camera. Gum-chewing ROK bringing in two Chinese prisoners. TWO KOREANS KILLED BY CHINESE COMMUNISTS.: Yangzi (?) Korea: 01/26: MSs, MLS, CUs, two dead Koreans dressed in civilian clothes, their hands tied behind their backs, lying on RR tracks in the snow. Bombing Chinese entrenched on hill northwest of Yangzi. LS, Corsair planes flying over dropping bombs. Several napalms explode on the hillside (in support of 1st Bn 8th Cav Regt 1st Cav Div). A few men running by across the partly snow-covered field; smoke covers hill in bg.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities