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Vietnam War - Color, 1967: Training at Lightning Mines, Boobytraps, & Tunnels Training Center 16-17Aug67

Reel Number: H1745-02

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1967

Country: USA,Vietnam

Location: Cu Chi

TC Begins: 10:28:44

TC Ends: 10:45:20

Duration: 00:16:36

NOTE: to order see: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1967 - Color, Vietnam War: Training at Lightning Mines, Boobytraps, & Tunnels Training Center 16-17Aug67 Slate: Camera Abbott, 17Aug67. MS Instructor holding spiked bamboo stick booby trap. MCU table w/ other booby traps in front of motto: First In Last Out. 10:29:15 USA soldiers / students get up from stands of training area, line up w/ rifles & ??. Sergeant talking & gesturing. Students enter the jungle course in single file w/ rifles at ready. 10:30:25 Slate: same. instructor talking to students seated in stand. CUs, Booby traps & various mines laid out on table. 10:32:08 Slate: same. Instructor with class. Vietcong weapon / knife is passed around. 10:33:00 Slate: same. Student enters booby trap display area. CU sign: Boobytraps displayed on this trail have been found throughout South Vietnam... Sign & examples: Bamboo foot spikes; 3 prong foot spikes;CU boots beside. Sign: Punji bear trap, CU boot on folding wood trap. Sign: Pivoted spike board 10:34:39 Soldier looks at Suspended Spike Board w/ sign. Students exit from display area. 10:35:21 Black 10:35:42 Slate: Camera: SSG Robertin . 16Aug67. CU sign: Didi GI. Boot past puddle in mud. MCU soldier’s boots up to sign: Devil Weapons of the Viet Cong. 10:36:29 Slate: illegible. CU water on path. Sign: Wire, Bamboo & Stolen Demo are the VC’s Tools of Destruction. Sign: That Has Made Vietnam The War Of The... 10:37:13 Slate: same. MS mock cemetery. CU, gravestone: Could This Be Yours?. Explosion by sign: Boobytrap, red smoke out. 10:38:05 Slate: Board listing VIP casualties headed by Gen. William C. Westmoreland, MG F.C.Weyand, MG J.C.F. Tillson III; BG G.G. O’Connor; B.G. E.M. Fanagan; LTC A.S. Fullerton; LTC Hue CMDT ARVN Engr School; DASP MoPic Sound Team. 10:38:51 Slate: same. Overhead sign at entrance to course area: Lightning Mines, Boobytraps And Tunnel Training Center. 10:39:11 Black 10:39:29 Slate: same. Officer in front of seated students in lecture stands describes purpose of the school (MOS). 10:41:35 Slate: same, 17Aug67. Students going thru the course single file. Instructor explains one of the traps to the students. MCU listening. Students continue along trail of the course. Instructor explains another trap to the students. 10:44:50 Slate: same. MS, mock grave marker with smoke billowing around it. Zoom in on word: "Yours". North Vietnam Weapons; Resistance; Military; NOTE: Entire card sold at one reel rate if requested. NOTE: Cu Chi tunnels were Viet Cong tunnel network near Saigon. NOTE: to order see: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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