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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1883-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1962
Country: Germany,USA
Location: Alps,Bad Toltz
TC Begins: 01:16:03
TC Ends: 01:28:49
Duration: 00:12:46
1962 - USA Army Special Forces Training Pt. 2 of 2 Continued... Henry Fonda SOF to camera re necessity for secrecy for security. 01:16:56 Aerial pan of Alps & snow covered valley. Bad Toltz entrance to US Army’s 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group in former SS-Junkerschule (SS Officer Candidate School). instructor at relief map briefing Special Forces on operation against others acting as partisans. 01:18:01 Boarding four-engine plane w/ parachutes; take off, over drop zone hook to static line; waiting partisans run out & greet paratroops, run off to woods & skiing cross-country to mountain hut. Head out w/ partisans to blow up bridge. CU climbing snow field tor ridge on steep slope; along ridge & down to bridge, sentries patrolling. 01:22:28 Railroad train across, troops prepare, move along stream; concrete bridge w/ sentry. MS enemy soldier captured at foot of bridge, another on top looks over, goes down below & is captured leaving third on top who calls for assistance & is captured. Explosives placed at base & beside railroad tracks on top. 01:26:11 Signal given & explosives ignited, CU twisting detonator. Explosion beside bridge, 01:26:24 Command post w/ tracking dogs & troops leave to chase; aggressor troops running, skiing away as others follow on snowshoes & skis. Chasing. Scenic mountain shots. 01:28:25 Closing credits. Cold War; Military training; Propaganda; 1962; 1960s;