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1950 - Arctic: Exercise Sweetbriar, Kluane Transit Camp, Donjek, Y.T. Canada. 14Feb50

Reel Number: H1899-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1950

Country: Canada,USA

Location: Arctic,Donjek River,Kluane,Yukon

TC Begins: 05:29:13

TC Ends: 05:37:38

Duration: 00:08:25

1950 - Arctic: Exercise Sweetbriar, Kluane Transit Camp, Donjek, Y.T. Canada. 14Feb50 Slate: Camera: Hurst. Kluane . Men in winter coats saluting raising of British / Canadian flag on pole in wind, mountains in background / BG. US flag flying on flagpole. 05:30:06 Slate: Same. Donjek. Man w/ rifle, another walks past, lights kerosene stove in snow outside tent. Pan tents in snow, soldiers in white coats & deep snow. Artillery behind jeep on roadside w/ sentry. Pan over snowscape & men out of tent moving, digging. MSs. taking down tent. 05:32:16 Slate: same. Line of vehicles beside snow covered road warming up, mounts in BG. Unit flag 3G on jeep w/ exhaust haze. Man into truck. 05:33:25 Slate: Same. Men outside tents w/ rifles & snowshoes in snow; gather snow in bucket. LS road, jeep down around bend towards frozen river / lake & mountains. 05:34:47 Sign: Donjek River, Mile 1130. no 1 Road Maint. Coy. Royal Canadian Engineers. Pan to army weasel warming up beside road & view across frozen river. Truck leaves in exhaust cloud. 05:35:28 Slate: same. Large tracked army vehicle, M-29 Weasel or M-49 Otter snowcat, pulling sled past camera on road. Vehicles leaving, down road. 05:36:33 Slate: same. Soldiers on snowshoes resting in snow w/ rifles, one falls backwards. MCUs. Winter Weather; Army Military Maneuvers; Cold War; Alcan Highway; Alaska; Yukon, Canada;

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