DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD PACKAGES, PONCHON, KOREA ; VIP'S TOUR 40TH DIVISION AREA, KOREA Part 1

Description

Large crowd of Koreans holding banners and flags near speakers' platform. A Korean addresses the crowd. Pan, crowd. Another speaker on the stand. MLS, women and children sing. Col T. W. Lowrie, head of the IX US Corps Civil Affairs, delivers speech and presents package of food to the County Chief of Ponchon, Chae Min Suk. Lowrie presents rations to the children. Civil Affairs truck loaded with rations. Note: This is the arrival of first Eisenhower food packages for people of Ponchon and surrounding country. -- Senator William F. Knowland (Rep.-Calif.) and Maxwell D. Taylor are greeted at the 40th Div airstrip by Maj Gen Ridgely Gaither (?) and Maj Gen Thomas F. Hickey. Knowland walks past Honor Guard, talks to some of the men from California. The Senator holds Calif. state flag. A general points out sector held by the 40th Div. CU, Knowland, Gen Hickey. CU, Taylor. CU, Hickey saluting.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection