Vietnam War - Color, 1965ca, USA Government Documentary: 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) - The New First Team Pt 1 of 2.

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Pt. 1 of 2 Tinted of US Cavalry chase past moving & stationary cameras. 06:00:25 Color. Helicopters overhead, infantry on ground. Swish pan to explosions & helicopter banking overhead. Titles. 06:01:18 B/W Spinning optical. CU typed order of 20Aug21 activating Cavalry Division. Cavalry riding on road past camera w/ pack mules & horses. Training in Queensland, Australia 1943. Fighting in jungles. Invasion of Philippines, Luzon, high angle arriving in Tokyo, 1945. Handshake in front of sign. MP directing traffic. MacArthur. 06:02:56 Tanks firing in Korea, artillery firing. Infantry up road, fighting from roadside, firing rifles, mortars. 06:03:16 Map, Tank moving forward, firing, taking prisoners. 7th Division meeting 1st Cavalry; crossing 38th Parallel. Searching Chinese Prisoners of War / POWs. Winter snow, mud; artillery firing. 06:04:19 Dec51 1st Cavalry to Japan. Military reviews. 06:04:41 Troops training in winter in Japan. 1957 1st Cavalry leaving Japan. 06:05:00 Color, Swish pan to sign: You Are Under Observation. 1st Cav arrives at border gate of demilitarized board, jeep crosses under lifted gate. Sign: Mines Danger. MPs CUs, writing reports, w/ binoculars. Swish pan 06:05:42 Vietnam village from river, dead body w/ sign. Vietnamese thru jungle. Village burning. USA advisors training Vietnamese. Army H21 banana helicopter delivering troops into grass, water. Other helicopters intercut w/ newspaper articles. CU feet thru mud. Aerials from helicopters. 06:07:38 Sign: Headquarters 11th Air Assault Division (Fort Benning, Georgia). Major General Harry Kinnard at desk. SOF re development of Army Air Mobility concept. 06:08:52 Sign: 11th Air Assault Division Physical Training... Troops climbing over towers, rappelling. 06:09:11 Aerial from above of helicopter low over curved hilly road - confidence test; landing on small pad in lake or river. Aerial above helicopters doing gunnery practice, explosions. 06:09:46 Small helicopter 0H-13 Sioux spinning, maneuvering. UH-1 Huey spinning, moving thru rough terrain. CH-47 Chinook w/ troops & jeep into it, door closed & lifting off. 06:10:47 CH-54 Skycrane lifting off w/ people-pod attached. 06:11:01 Fixed-wing OV-1 Mohawk overhead. Landing on dirt airstrip in dust. Caribou landing. 06:11:57 Helicopters over Ft. Benning woods, river. Men loading rockets into firing mechanism on helicopters, ammunition into machine guns; troops loading, taking off. POV flying over forest, firing rockets from various angles. Smoke on ground. Lowering troops by ropes. Soldiers unloading from UH-1 Huey. 06:14:18 Montage: Troops thru grass, firing machine guns & rifles. Huey w/ unloading pallet supplies. Helicopters & maintenance; Fixed wing plane; equipment flying low over & landing. Running film to photolab under camouflage & developing images / pictures. 06:16:04 Unloading CH-47 Chinook & taking off. Artillery into place & firing. 06:16:34 03Jul65 1st Cavalry Airmobile formed. Troops shipped to Camp Radcliff, An Khe, Vietnam, boarding buses, trains, convoy to port; planes in protective cocoons loaded onto aircraft carrier. Loading crates of rotor blades. Mohawks pulled by tractors & loaded. Swish pan... Continued... Army Aviation History; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; NOTE: Any continuous 15 minutes of entire film (06:00:01 - 06:28:32) sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk