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Korean War - Color, 1951, Documentary Film: This Is Korea R2 of 6

Reel Number: 250062-02

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950,1951

Country: Korea,USA

Location:

TC Begins: 02:08:38

TC Ends: 02:17:10

Duration: 00:08:32

R2 of 6 Color, Documentary Film re How Korea became embroiled in Cold War politics & story of 7th Fleet & 1st Marine Division in Korean War in first year. Officer, General Oliver P. Smith pinning Silver Star & other medals on Marines; Honor Guard marching past on dirt clearing w/ tents around. 02:09:06 MS Troops marching past along dusty road after Inchon Landing. 02:09:41 M26 Pershing heavy tanks along road, past camera, past Korean villagers. Korean soldiers watching train passing w/ airplane fuselages & other equipment. Two marines pulling 75mm anti-tank gun on cart. 02:10:37 General Edward A. Craig / Eddie Craig at chart w/ his operations officer. CU ammunition out of container, fuse setting, loading artillery, sighting & firing battery w/ explosions on far hillside across valley. 02:11:55 Troops along dirt road & thruy village. Burning North Korean tank. Allied tanks firing, explosions, machine guns firing, troops moving up. Firing from hillside emplacement. Marching along hillside; firing artillery, bazookas, 81mm mortars; soldiers running across hillside. LS. 02:13:53 Sell explodes very close by. Tanks advancing past troops lying on ground. 75mm recoiless rifle fired; feeding ammunition into machine guns; snipers firing. Other weapons firing. 02:15:11 CU Man looking thru binoculars; two propellor fighter planes watched, radioman talking, CU pilot on radio; planes banking way & strafing w/ rockets & napalm, ground troops in foreground. 02:16:00 High angle LS of marines marching up valley w/ farm village on hillside. Burning hut. 02:16:17 Wounded American carried off on stretcher; walking wounded helped along road. Others on stretchers / litters. Wounded w/ bloodied pant leg hauled on ambulance. Anti-Communist; Communism; American Korean War Propaganda; Cold War; Fighting; Battles; 1950; 1951;

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