Reel

The President Meets General Macarthur

The President Meets General Macarthur
Clip: 350877_1_1
Year Shot: 1950 (Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1553
Original Film: 023-396-01
HD: N/A
Location: Wake Island, South Pacific
Timecode: 00:05:15 - 00:07:15

The President Meets Gen Macarthur The President and the Commander-In-Chief of the United Nations forces meet on Wake Island for a conference on the Korean War and the far Eastern situation in general. While the discussions takes place, the mighty battleship Missouri hammers the Korean coast with its giant guns, while un troops close in on the red capital of Pyongyang. MCU Aerial of Wake Island. CU President Truman and General Douglas Macarthur. MS Military station on Wake Island. MCU General Macarthur and another officer walking into the military station. CU President Truman presents Macarthur with his fourth Oak Leaf Cluster. MLS Silhouette of the Battleship, The Missouri with it's guns being raised. OHS The Battleship Missouri big guns. MS The Missouri's flag blowing in the wind MCU The shells being loaded into the guns. MCU Of the number of men it takes to fire one of the guns. MLS Shelling Korea and the shells exploding. MCU Fire and smoke coming out of the barrels of these large guns as there being fired.