United States Marines Land In South Vietnam
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 7024 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH ROOM 2E791 EXTENSION 75111 Release No. 63-65 Footage: 170 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: March 17; 1965 FINE GRAIN TO; U.S. MARINES LAND IN SOUTH VIETNAM (Official Army footage released by Department of Defense) After consultation between the Governments of South Vietnam and the United States, the United States Government has agreed to the request of the Government of Vietnam to station two United States Marine Corps battalions in the Danang area to strengthen the general security of the Danang Air Base complex. The limited mission of the Marines will be to relieve Government of South Vietnam forces now engaged in security duties for action in the pacification program and in offensive roles against Commist guerrilla forces. Sequences show: (a) Four ships in the harbor with the Marines on board. (b) Beach area where the Marines will land and the party avaiting their arrival (c) Vietnamese soldiers laying sheets of steel for the landing. (d) Landing craft medium as it is coming toward the beach. (e) Ramp opening and the Marines come running out and go onto the beach. (f) Armored Personnel Carrier as it is landing on the beach. (8) Marines digging in. (h) Armored Personnel Carriers in a line coning toward the camera. NOTE TO EDITORS: 170 35mm fine grain handed out to MGM. Fine grain to be forwarded to Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 2, New York, within 72 hours. 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. D23413
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