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1949 - Arctic: Exercise Sweetbriar, Convoy Beginning From Camp Carson, Colorado. 31Dec49

Reel Number: H1899-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1949

Country: Canada,USA

Location: Camp Carson,Colorado

TC Begins: 05:44:10

TC Ends: 05:52:19

Duration: 00:08:09

1949 - Arctic: Exercise Sweetbriar, Convoy Beginning From Camp Carson, Colorado. 31Dec49 Convoy passing on 4-lane divided highway, bare mountains in background; passing large military-like buildings. 05:44:59 Slate: 31Dec49. Camera: Strick. Soldier in park signaling convoy in parking lot. CU vehicle exhaust pipe. Int. truck; signal & truck convoy pulling out past camera, leaving past guard post. 05:46:15 Passing sign pointing to White Horse, Canada, 2867 miles on paved road. Soldier looking at sign. 05:46:49 CU large sign by highway: Camp Carson, main entrance. Visitors Welcome. Sentry waving traffic past. 05;47:10 Slate. Same. MS Officer standing by rear of trucks w/ paper briefing listening soldiers. HA of soldiers in formation in front of barracks. 05:48:16 Slate: same, camera: Hurst. Soldiers shown insulating pads for boots, mittens, various boots, snow glasses, parkas. 05:49:21 Slate: same. Soldiers in formation; CUs issued parkas & caps & inspected. MCUs. 05:50:26 Slate: same. Drivers beside vehicles, boarding trucks. CUs, at wheel, exhaust starting. MS trucks leaving past barracks, out of base road. 05:51:31 Two soldiers looking into hood of truck; driver into truck. CU. MS four soldiers looking at map, talking & CU pointing at route. Winter Weather; Army Military Maneuvers; Cold War; Alcan Highway; Alaska; Yukon, Canada;

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