Reel Number: H1699-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1958
Country: Korea,USA
Location: Alabama,Fort Rucker,North Africa
TC Begins: 10:00:09
TC Ends: 10:09:45
Duration: 00:09:36
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Revolving globe w/ satellite circling. Title over. 10:00 Sgt Stuart Queen talking to camera: “...16th anniversary of Army Aviation...little known or understood outside of the service...” 10:01:58 WWI soldiers firing artillery, machine guns from trenches, camouflage. 10:02:25 Tanks along road to front; thru destroyed village. 10:02:35 WWII street fighting montage; artillery; tanks across field. 10:02:52 Atomic bomb test explosion, New Mexico. Rockets launched, 1950s. Tanks firing. 10:03:22 Queen to camera: “The army...must be mobile enough to function on the atomic battlefield...and come together..to follow thru on any nuclear assault directed against the enemy....Army aviation does not in any sense duplicate the tactical missions of the Air Force. 10:04:19 Air Force planes dropping napalm, paratroops. Army troops advancing across grassy field, Army helicopter landing & troops running out. 10:05:01 U.S.Army Aviation Center, Fort Rucker, Alabama on entrance gateway over road, tilt up to helicopters overhead. CU sign ...army aviation school. Fort Rucker, Ala. 10:05;25 Graduation ceremony w/ Army officers & families, wives. MCUs. Diplomas given to pilots & handshakes. 10:06:29 WW2 Aerial view of light piper observation plane, GF on side, over North Africa, ground & trees. 10:07:09 Large artillery under camouflage netting firing, intercut w/ plane & pilot. 10:07:44 Light plane taking off from dirt airstrip over camera; view of mountains & canyons from plane. 10:07:52 Three light observation planes over Korea; soldiers firing large artillery barrage. Soldiers carrying ammunition across stream, soldiers climbing mountainside; supplies by foot & trucks thru deep mud. GOOD. 10:09:02 Pack mules in rain on hillside; wounded carried on stretcher along ridge & down steep rocky slope. Ambulance thru deep floodwaters. Men carry crates or cartons to boats. WW1; WW2; Korean War; Military Propaganda; 1950s; 1958; Aerial Mobility; NOTE: Very good photography, quality & coverage.