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1950 - Arctic: Exercise Sweetbriar, Camp McCrae, Yukon Territory, Canada. 27Jan50

Reel Number: H1899-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1950

Country: Canada,USA

Location: Arctic,Camp McCrae,White Horse,Yukon

TC Begins: 05:37:45

TC Ends: 05:44:00

Duration: 00:06:15

1950 - Arctic: Exercise Sweetbriar, Camp McCrae, Yukon Territory, Canada. 27Jan50 Slate: Hurst; Camp McRae. 27Jan50. Two officers w/o coats walk past thru snow & into Allied Force Headquarters building. Others enter. Army truck past HQ sign in snow by road, CU signl. 05:38:29 Lineman working on telephone wires on pole; men chipping ice from roof. Men entering HQ. 05:38:57 Snowcat (M-29 Weasel or M-49 Otter?) past. Sign: 1st BN. Combat Team 14th Infantry & trucks passing. 05:39:45 Slate: same. Int Troops in winter parkas standing, doorway behind w/ sign: Air Traffic. Tilt up to signs: Operations, Debriefing. Canadian soldiers at typewriter & desks, blackboard w/ information. Man at desk talking on radio . Man writing information on blackboard. 05:40:45 Ext. sign: Transport Wing Headquarters. 05:40:52 Slate: same. Army trucks moving w/ C-47 & C-54 parked on snow; MS C-54 warming up, MCUS ladder & men descending in falling snow. Men in parkas by truck watching, MCU. 05:41:56 Slate: Hurst. Whitehorse. C-54s landing on snow-covered field, hangers in BG. MS C-54 warming up; C-47 taxiing. 05:43:00 Slate: same. Soldiers in parkas marching across snow-covered tarmac, to hanger or ?? Board army truck, leaving in convoy thru deep snow. Winter Weather; Army Military Maneuvers; Cold War; Alcan Highway; Alaska; Yukon, Canada; Airfield;

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