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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1883-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1962
Country: USA
Location: Fort Bragg,North Carolina
TC Begins: 01:00:12
TC Ends: 01:16:02
Duration: 00:15:50
1962 - USA Army Special Forces Training Pt. 1 of 2 Special forces in camouflage & others in snow setting explosive charge under bridge. Explosion 01:01:19 Turning globe w/ satellite around it. Titles. 01:01:45 Still of Special Forces soldier on wall, Henry Fonda turns & speaks / SOF to camera of types of activities of Special Forces & unconventional warfare. Talks of guerilla operations; says American Indian was one of greatest guerilla fighters. Etchings of fighting scenes. 01:04:21 Montage: Staged of guerillas sabotaging Civil War railroad; WWI Arabs on camels; German army, resistance fighters in WWII. 01:05:03 Montage: French Resistance fighters; destroyed railroad engine, tracks, blockade, marching w/ flags & some uniforms. 01:05:38 Montage: China, Philippines resistance fighters advancing, questioning prisoners . 01:05:58 Fonda SOF to camera describing Post-WWII: Laos, Vietnam, Cuba. ...Special Forces, this is their story. 01:06:30 Aerial of Fort Bragg army base; ground shot sign: 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) 1st Special Forces Headquarters. Signa: US Army Special Warfare Center, w/ logos. Soldiers marching, into building,instructor & foreign soldiers in class. 01;07:51 Parachute training on jump tower; MCUs. 01:09:11 Seated soldiers w/ instructor showing machine gun on table in shade. CU faces. 01:09:39 Rifles in rack at firing range; CU loading circular magazine; bullets in boxes w/ Chinese & Cyrillic writing. Fine firing from various positions at human shaped targets, bullets hitting. 01:10:42 Instructor & student learning communication equipment; men take notes In field sending morse code on telegraph as another turns generator. 01:11:35 Setting hunting traps in woods; booby traps built w/ sharp sticks. 01:12:21 First Aid instruction, medical kit, CUs, doctor teaching. 01:13:04 Demolition instruction, bridge model & explosives placement. 01:13:35 Martial arts of judo, karate taught. 01:14:31 Army language instruction in booths w/ headset & manuals/books. 01:15:01 Special Forces soldiers marching to isolation area for assignment, enter locked fence & locked inside. Continued... Cold War; Military training; Propaganda; 1962; 1960s;