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1950 - Arctic: Exercise Sweetbriar, McCrae, Yukon Territory, Army Camp.

Reel Number: H1899-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1950

Country: Canada,USA

Location: Arctic,McCrae,Yukon

TC Begins: 05:20:34

TC Ends: 05:29:00

Duration: 00:08:26

1950 - Arctic: Exercise Sweetbriar, McCrae, Yukon Territory, Army Camp. Slate: Camera: Hubbard. Soldiers unloading boxes / crates from truck onto hand truck in snow. 05:21:39 LS Soldiers w day packs, on cross country skis leaving camp; CUs, MSs. Snow weasel in background ( BG). 05:22:45 Slate: same. Stacked 55 gallon drums covered w/ snow, sigh: No Smoking Gasoline. LS of many rows. 05:23:40 Slate: same. Quonset huts, jeep, mountains in BG. Outhouse outside each. Building w/ sign: Refrigerator doors to be kept closed. Snow & Icicles. Soldiers outside large building w/ tarpaper. CU sign: 7th Ord. M.M. Co. US Army. Jeep backing out building beneath sign. 05:25:18 Rows of snow-covered parked army vehicles, skier out. Steam railroad train pulling tanker cars & flatcars of lumber past. 05;25:52 Slate: Same. LS building / barracks w/ icicles. Sign: Road Condition Information Here, McCrae Y.T., mile 910. Sign: Telephone, Telegraph, Office (on wooden arrows). Sign: 229th Sig. Opr. Co. Signal Center. 05:27:03 Slate: Same. Snowing, barracks behind passing army truck. Soldier into building. Sign: HQ Fifth US Army. Office of Deputy - Maneuver Comdr. Whitehorse Y.T. Canada. LS Quonset hut, jeep in snow outside Post Office. Soldier out w/ mailbag. Row of Quonset huts in snow. Chapel, sign on Quonset. Red Cross Dispensary sign. Winter Weather; Army Military Maneuvers; Cold War; Alcan Highway; Alaska; Yukon, Canada;

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