Brigadelex 1-59, Vieques, Puerto Rico Part 1

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 INDET AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION - RAD10-TV-NEWSFILM SECTION ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 (B) Release No. 36-59 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Footage: 3508 FINE GRAIN TO; MGM 26 February 1959 Brigade Landing Exercise) NBC-1V BRIGADELEX 1.59 Vieques Puerto Rico (Official Navy footage released by Dept. of Defense) An amphibious exercise known as Brigadelex 1=59 (Brigade Landing Exercise 1-59) was conducted recently at Vieques, Puerto7Rico, by Amphabious Squadron 10 and the Marines from the 8th Provisional Marine Brigade, Camp LeJeune, North Carolina. The exercise featured an amphibitous assault by helicopters, known as "vertical assaults using helicopters based on board the Atlantic Fleet's first amphibious assault ship, the USS BOXER. The Defense Board, composed of 62~members of Army, Navy and Air Force from the United States, Central and South America, observe the landing and troop deployment. Sequences show: (a) Marines embark on the USS BOXER to engage in Brigadelex 1-59. (b) Various views of the USS BOXER en route. (c) Marines coming up in elevators (d) Marines loading belicopters and taking off. Loading jeeps, tractors, self-propelled recoilless rifles into HR-205-belicopters (1) Helicopters in air on way from BOXER to landing site. g) Helicopters landing at Vieques, (h) LSDs landing on beach. (1) Gen. Stiepherd, into Gen. Pollock and members of the Inter-American Defense Board observe the landing and troop deployment. Lyped 3- 31 - 19 for Phrol 4-1-50 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

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Filmed News Releases