ORDNANCE DEMONSTRATIONS (OPERATION FIREPOWER) Part 1

Description

Summary: MLSs, soldiers seated in stand watching demonstrations. CU, Capt Patrick J Breen, Ordnance Corps, 8046 Ord Field Group, addressing crowd. MLS, RV, men firing American and Russian carbines. The men firing American and enemy weapons. MS, quad .50 cal on an M-16 motor carriage half-track being fired. Man firing US carbine. Man firing US sub-MG. Man firing .30 cal US MG. Two Shots, men firing enemy MGs. Several mortars are fired- a large and a small one. LS, of shells exploding around targets. Mock Chinese squad firing Soviet weapons. M-16 in fg. Mock US Inf squad firing US weapon. MS, Soviet light MG, M- 1928 7.62mm firing. Enemy MGs being fired. ELS, showing hit to the left of Russian T-36 tank. ELS, explosions from shells fired by a Chinese recoil rifle. An M-46 backing down embankment and then continuing in reverse across a portion of the field, turning around. ELS, as M-46 fires its big gun. MS, Sgt Caldwell fires a 1943 SMG Russian-Made MG. Soldiers around one of the Ord guides lecturing on a Chinese heavy MG. Man firing a carbine. Shots, of soldiers firing foreign weapons--sub-MGs, rifles, carbines. Sgt firing enemy MG, type unknown. CU, one man loading magazine in a sub-MG, foreign make. (Note: Impossible to identify the different weapons in the above. Very short. Captions not clear.) JAPANESE UNIVERSITY BASEBALL GAME.: Tokyo, Japan: 06/22/1951: Gen and Mrs Matthew B Ridgway arriving at Stateside Park. Gen Ridgway addressing teams on field. MS, Mrs Ridgway standing between two officers. MS, same, but including Gen Ridgway to the l. Ridgway and wife waving to the crowd as they walk across field. Gen and Mrs Ridgway seated in grandstand. HLS, crowded stand as the crowd cheers. The General explaining the game to Mrs Ridgway. Mrs Ridgway's reactions. Shot, behind Gen and Mrs Ridgway seated in their box. Crowds seen below. The game is being played between two university teams, Waseda and Keio. Gen and wife leaving the stadium, getting into car. MS, Ridgway speaking to a Japanese. Packard car pulling away. The Gen addressing the teams. The general wife, and officers walking off the field as the general and wife acknowledge the cheers. Cheering Japanese students. Shots, game around home plate. One player comes in; catcher drops the ball. Shot, packed grandstand with Japanese student yel1ing. Japanese men, women in stand. Shot, from top of stand, students standing up and cheering, cheerleaders in action.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities