Guantanamo Tests Defenses, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 (A) Release No. 295-60 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Footage: 150° FINE GRAIN TO; 5 December 1960 MOM NBC-TV GUANTANAMO TESTS DEFENSES luba (Official Havy footage released by Department of Defense) Screaming sirens and clanging bells sent all hands in general querters recently, starting s realistic training exercise for defending this huge U. S. Naval Base. Marines clutching rifles had already left their barracks to scout mear the boundary fence that separates the installation fres Cuban territory. The training exercise is like those conducted each month within the 27-mile rin of the naval base Mavy and Marine training plenes, A4D attack bombers and FBU fighter interceptors) roared above Guasteness in aerial defense exercises. The bulk of the weapons manned by the Marines are automatic rifles, machine 18 and rifle grenades, plus a fev medium tanks. Sequences abov: (a) Aerial of Guantazeno Naval Base. (b) Officer briefing troops. (e) Marine tank and crew. (a) Fox hole. (e) Machine gun nest. (1) Troops marching. (g) Air support (b) Planes taking off and in flight. NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. E10575
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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer