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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250062-06
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1950,1951
Country: Japan,Korea,North Korea,USA
Location: Chosin Reservoir
TC Begins: 02:43:35
TC Ends: 02:50:15
Duration: 00:06:40
R6 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. MLS Troops crossing low wooden bridge or causeway in snow; smiling past camera. LS 02:43:56 LS past silhouetted man talking into radiophone of battleship firing. MCU of BB guns firing. 02:44:06 Lines of retreating soldiers marching alongside of road, equipment passing between. Night shots of battleship guns firing & lighting scene on shipboard. 02:44:45 Soldiers slowly walking up frozen fields on hillside. 02:45:05 Aerial over town; soldiers running, advancing across farm fields. Aerial of planes in formation, pilot & planes peeling off to dive; soldiers on ground take cover; napalm bomb exploding into building closeby. Men running, throwing grenades & firing rifles. Carrier planes, radioman calling in napalm drop; explosions close-by. CU Marine calling “follow me” SOF. Running toward burning huts. MCU men silhouetted by burning huts. 02:48:31 Marines walking / marching away from burning village. MCUs. Kids watching, stretchers carried; hillside graves & placing wreath. Nuns, orphans, kids playing on sleds on ice. 02:49:36 Shipboard ceremony shots aboard USS Missouri (BB-63). Montage of grave markers; marines advancing. The End. Anti-Communist; Communism; American Korean War Propaganda; Cold War; Fighting; Battles; 1950; 1951; Sentimental; NOTE: Battle of Chosin aka Changjin Lake campaign was 17 days : 27Nov-13Dec50