U.S. Marine Corps of Kimpo Provisional Regiment in Korea during the Korean War. Interior of a FDC (Fire Direction Center) bunker. U.S. soldiers relax, sit around and read prior to a fire mission. A wall map in the background. A man answers a phone. A Horizontal Control Operator (HCO) and a Vertical Control Operator (VCO) look up they grab their pads and take down data from an FO (Forward Observer). The HCO plots coordinates. He looks up and speaks to a computer. A view of the hands of the HCO as he plots the coordinates. The VCO plots the coordinates. A close up of the VCO plotting the coordinates and he calls out to the computer. The VCO picks up a phone and speaks to the Battery Executive in the field. A forward observer phone operator speaks over a phone and starts timing with his watch. The watch and the man on the phone.
Facilities given to U.S. Marine Corps of Kimpo Provisional Regiment in Korea during the Korean War. A bunker. The front view of the bunker. The flooring inside the bunker. 'Bunker I' written on a board. Interior of the bunker shows sleeping facilities given to the soldiers, air ventilation and a stove. A pointer in a man's hand indicates air ventilation over a door from the inside.
U.S. 90mm antiaircraft artillery in surface mission, Kimpo provisional regiment, Korea. Soldiers go into a sandbagged bunker. A soldier at 90mm antiaircraft artillery. Interiors of FDC (Fire Direction Center) bunker. Soldiers relax, sit around and read prior to the fire mission. A soldier answers a phone. Firing orders are received. A soldier looks out through a slit.
U.S. 90mm antiaircraft artillery in surface mission, Kimpo provisional regiment, Korea. Sandbagged gun emplacement showing 90mm antiaircraft artillery. The gun crew walks towards the gun. Face of the azimuth dial on the gun.
Activities of the U.S. Army Military Police during the Korean War. MPs are active in Operation Big Switch, involving exchange of prisoners of war. A sign on an entrance gate: "Welcome, Gate To Freedom". Military Police (MPs) standing at the entrance gate to Freedom Village. The U.S. and UN flags and Korean flags fly from flag poles. Red Cross vehicles arrive. Wounded are carried on stretchers. Men walk with belongings. Korean prisoners board buses. Red Cross workers transfer the wounded.
Honor Guard of UN troops from various nations stand at entrance to the so-called "Peace Pagoda," where negotiations were conducted to end the Korean conflict. U.S. Military Police Officers escort Major General George G. Finch, USAF, Chief negotiator for the U.S. followed by MP officers escorting Lieutenant General, William K. Harrison, Jr. United States Army, Senior Delegate, United Nations Command Delegation, who would sign the truce documents. Separate sequence shows U.S. Army MPs and U.S. Navy Shore Patrol (SP) patrolling streets in Beirut Lebanon, in 1958. MPs talk with a local policeman and point to a map of the Town of Beirut, posted on a wall
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