PT BOAT OPERATIONS Chinhae, Korea Part 1

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MS ADM. SCOTT MONTCRIEFF and other officers leaving car after their arrival at soccer field.MS MONTCRIEFF walking to chairs on side lines of field.MLS Soccer game between ROK Navy and Ward-Room Team from HMS BELFAST.MLS Koreans wear white shirts; the English, green.LS Teams shaking hands and leaving field, at end of game. Royal marines (from aboard the BELFAST) parading on soccer field after the completion of the first game; ADM. MONTCRIEFF & ADM. SOHN (ROK) during the playing of British anthem.MS PT boats along side of HMS ROTOITI as the officers receive orders for first patrol of Korean PT boats. Rocket and gun flashes.CU South Korean flag flying on radar mast of Pt boats.MS Two members of PT boat crew cleaning 4 gun after patrol.QUALITY GOODCU Life ring on PT boat.MCU Crew on board PT, loading 5-inch rockets.CU Fifty-cal., twin machine gun mount and Korean gunner.CU Twenty-millimeter and 50-cal. guns firing at dusk onto North Korean shoreline and installations. Five-inch rockets, and 40-millimeter and 50-cal. guns being fired on night patrol.MS Rockets firing on early morning patrol; men waiting for explosion on beach.MS PT boat running throughout water on way back from patrol.CU Skipper & chief engineer at helm of PT boat.MS From bow of boat looking aft. Daylight raid of PT boats on shore installations: Guns and rockets firing & explosions on shore. PT boats on way to rendezvous with British ship F-164; captain of British ship congratulating PT captain on success of mission.CU Aboard USS LST-692<*> as PT boats come alongside to take aboard rockets and 40mm ammunition.Rockets being handed up from tank deck of LST.CU Rockets on deck of LST before loaded PT.QUALITY GOODMS Forty-millimeter cans being lowered over side of LST onto PT boat.MS Forty-millimeter shells being taken out of cans and put into rack on board PT.MS Rockets in cans passed over side of LST onto PT.<*>The ship directory of 1956 shows the USS LST-692 bears the name, "DAVIESS COUNTY."

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities