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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1778-02
Color: Colour
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1967
Country: USA,Vietnam
Location: Con Thien,Honorable Tre Island aka Hon Tre Island
TC Begins: 10:12:20
TC Ends: 10:30:01
Duration: 00:17:41
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Vietnam War - Color, 1967: Hawk Missiles; M42 Self Propelled Duster & M55 Quad MG. 24-29Jul67 Slate: 24Jul67 Camera: Massie, Hawk Missiles. CU large wooden sign: C Battery 6th BN, 71st Arty. 1st Operational Army Hawk Batter In A Combat Zone. Capt. Martin, Battery Commander; 1st Sgt McKay. 10:12:42 LS across valley w/ long buildings / living quarters / barracks on opposite slope, ocean on right. 10:13:03 Trailer mounted RADAR dishes turning on sandy beach; MCU soldier looking into scope at controls of Pulse Acquisition Radar, adjusts knobs & switches. Illuminator Radar w/ another type turning dish. 10:14;18 MCU at scope. LS operating / raising, lowering & turning dish of radar. CUs of dish moving. 10:15:17 Continuous Wave Only / CWO radar on trailer on beach; turning antenna; CU siren on battery control center, by sandbags. 10:15;51 Plywood shed, soldiers run out; repeat. 4 Hawk missiles on trailer, men arm mechanisms & ready to launch. MCUs & CUs fuzing missile while another soldier on telephone. Run. 10:17:49 LS of mountains w/ fog in upper valley seen from distance on peak. 10:18:26 Low aerial over military installation on hilltop above sea w/ radar antenna turning. Higher aerial over military base on hillside or ??. 10:20:01 Black. 10:20:18 Slate: ?? Camera: Massie. Man runs from 3 hawk missiles on trailer. Missiles turn, raise. Repeat in LS over water. 10:22:13 Slate: 29Jul67 Camera: Rodriguez. 1st Bn, 44th Artillery. Artillery support for US Marines. Col Augustino L Merolla, CO inspects crew of M42 twin-40mm SP gun. 10:23:21 Col Merolla inspects M42A1 Duster anti-aircraft, departs. 10:24:04 Marine convoy past M42 on guard on dirt road. M55 quad .50 cal MG mounts on trucks in passing convoy. LS, convoy crosses bridge. LS, MS. 10:24:48 Slate: same. Marine convoy in assembly area prior to moving out to Conthein . 10:25:22 Soldiers checking M55 mounted on truck. 10:25:45 M42 at head of convoy. MS & CUs Soldiers move out in their positions. LS, convoy prepares to move out. M42s & M55s w/ Marine convoy. M42 on guard on dirt road. An M-55 is nearby. 10:27:40 Slate: same. M-42 pulls out of emplacement. Another M-42 takes its place. 10:29:15 LS, pan, Marine emplacements at Con Thien. LS, artillery explosions in mountainous area of the DMZ / Demilitarized Zone. 10:29:54 CU Sign: Headquarters 1st BN 44th Arty Per Ardua. Weapons; Marines; Army; Missiles; NOTE: Con Thien had been heavily attacked 02-14Jul67. Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk