U.S. Marines Retake Seoul
U.S. Marines Retake Seoul
U.S. Marines Retake Seoul
U.S. Marines Retake Seoul
Master 1848 - Tape 1 TLS Republic of Korea (RoK, South Korea) army officers and local government officials waving arms in air, celebrating the recapture of Seoul by U.S. forces from communist North Korea; CU armband on arm of local government official, tilt up to RoK man wearing glasses, striped business suit. (VO implies this is the Mayor of Seoul). MSs RoK Army officers standing, posing outside building at Kimpo airfield. High angle LS U.S. Marine Corps operational base outside Seoul; MSs white male U.S. Marine Corps officers including colonel sitting on hill, conferring; MS white male U.S. Marine using field telephone, wearing sunglasses; MS white male U.S. Marine wearing M1 steel helmet with camouflage cover, green t-shirt and herringbone pants while kneeling on hill with M1 carbine rifle-- note the tattoo on his left arm. TLS steady stream of male North Korean POWs (P.O.W., prisoners of war) filing past camera at Marine camp; MS male N. Korean POWs marching past camera, hands behind heads; MSs two young male RoK Army intelligence officers seated at table, interviewing POW; panning MS four POWs carrying wounded or sick comrade; panning MS RoK intel officers interviewing POWs behind barbed wire fence; MSs POWs wearing tattered clothing, receiving & eating rice ball rations.
U.S. Marines Retake Seoul
Master 1848 - Tape 2 MS M-24 tank outfitted with bulldozer plate. Rear view MSs white male U.S. Marines firing Browning 1919A4 light machine gun; sideview MS overheating barrel of Browning machine gun being fired. MSs white male U.S. Marines engaged in combat, firing M1 Garand and Carbine .30 cal rifles. TLSs U.S. Marine throwing grenade into enemy tunnel on hill, another Marine cautiously approaching nest following explosion. MS white male U.S. Marine laying on ground, standing up with Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) 1918A2 light machine gun. TLS Marine walking to dead enemy soldier outside bunker, pushing at corpse with foot. MS white male U.S. Marine staff sergeant bending over corpse. Panning MS burned, charred dead KPA (Korean People's Army, North Korea) soldiers outside bunker. Panning MS U.S. Marine walking through rubble, detritus of war. VO: "Victory at Seoul! 3 months ago the South Korean capital fell to the communists. Now the mayor & his administration are back. At Kimpo Airfield, the best in Korea, a Telenews cameraman films U.N. & gov't officials waiting for the Marines to capture gov't buildings 12 miles away before entering town. Overlooking the city, 1st Division leathernecks set up field communications with power supplied by jeeps... Just behind the lines, captured North Koreans are herded into emergency POW compounds. Many of the prisoners were caught in civilian clothes. U.N. intelligence teams give them a careful checkup. These Reds surrendered after going without food for four days. Up ahead, the fighting goes on. A bulldozing Marine tank buries die-hard Reds under their own defenses... Now the infantry closes in for the kill. The enemy's groundhog tactics: they burrow under the earth and must be blown out..."