[16:00:44.02] "Commandant of the Marine Corps Presents: Marines 1967" [16:01:31.01] battle footage with soldiers running across field, shooting

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1 Project Name: Vietnam War Stories Tape/File # WCNAM A16 Marines 67 PT 1 Transcription Date: 9/29/09 Transcriber Name: Donna Crane Keywords: Marine Corps 1967, I Corps, MeKong River, battle footage, captured weapons, captured NVA, General Lewis Walt, General Robert Cushman, rebuilding war torn village, jet squadrons, CH-53 carrying disabled helicopter, military ceremony commemorating 25th anniversary of "Guadalcanal", military funeral for General Bruno Hochmuth, Medal of Honor ceremony-capt. Harvey C. Barnum, Gunnery Sgt. Jimmy E. Howard, Maj. Howard V. Lee, post humus awards to: Lance Corp. Joe C. Paul, 1st. Lt. Frank S. Reasoner, Staff Sgt. P. S. Conner, training in replicas of Vietnam villages, soldiers on cross country skis, Marines at the US Pavilion at 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, President Johnson, Camp Pendleton, wedding of Corp. Henry Miller, General Wallace Green retirement ceremony, Operation Independence Hill 10 Near Happy Valley, February 1967, soldiers in canoe, scenery of Hill 10, destroyed village [16:00:44.02] "Commandant of the Marine Corps Presents: Marines 1967" [16:01:04.11] explosion in field, soldier stands, soldiers move from prone to standing position, soldiers watching, running through field while under fire [16:01:31.01] battle footage with soldiers running across field, shooting [16:01:47.14] soldiers in boats on Mekong River, [16:02:05.29] tank rolling onto beach, soldiers jumping out, shooting at building, soldiers in field shooting [16:02:29.14] soldiers on the move across field, shooting, explosions [16:02:41.22] soldiers moving along hillside, wading through stream [16:03:02.05] soldier helping others out of water, soldiers moving up hillside, explosion next to soldier, camera view of flying through the air [16:03:20.03] soldier drops grenade into hole in ground, explosion, soldier on field phone [16:03:35.12]

2 mortar launcher, soldier shooting machine gun, soldier on phone, artillery canon being loaded and discharged [16:03:49.04] series of weapons being shot, planes dropping bomb, explosions [16:04:15.19] shooting rifle, capturing NVAs, tying arms behind back [16:04:44.18] captured weapons [16:04:56.00] captured NVA sitting on ground [16:05:05.03] General Lewis Walt relieved of duty, installation of General Robert Cushman assuming command of I Corps in ceremony [16:05:24.20] soldier pushing wheelbarrow at base construction site, concrete mixer, villagers shoveling, soldier dumps wheelbarrow full of concrete [16:05:40.14] jet squadrons flying, OTS pilot in air, soldier on mic, jet landing [16:06:22.12] carrying body bag to helicopter, helicopter takes off, CH-53 carrying disabled helicopter [16:06:58.27] supplies lined up on ground, loading supplies onto helicopter, soldiers in FG, helicopter in BG, soldier on phone [16:07:16.01] explosion in field, soldier on phone, more explosions, soldiers look on, group of soldiers around foxholes [16:07:35.11] soldier holding map, soldiers in foxholes, looking through binoculars, on phone [16:07:48.09] Burt Lancaster narrates, video of tank shooting, soldiers in foxholes, looking through binoculars, talking [16:08:14.22]

3 soldier pointing, explosions [16:08:21.01] sunken ship, canon, tank left behind on shore [16:08:29.16] military ceremony commemorating 25th anniversary of "Guadalcanal" [16:08:52.10] helicopter flying overhead, landing, soldiers running toward LZ [16:09:05.21] loading wounded into helicopter, medic helping soldier, carrying wounded on soldier's back, soldier carrying his own IV [16:09:20.12] military funeral for General Bruno Hochmuth [16:10:07.16] Medal of Honor ceremony-capt. Harvey C. Barnum, Gunnery Sgt. Jimmy E. Howard, Maj. Howard V. Lee getting medal of honor from LBJ [16:10:32.05] post humus awards to: Lance Corp. Joe C. Paul, 1st. Lt. Frank S. Reasoner, Staff Sgt. P. S. Conner [16:10:53.14] soldiers training in Vietnam village replicas [16:11:24.21] soldiers on cross country skis [16:11:35.20] Marines at the US Pavilion at 1967 World's Fair in Montreal [16:11:49.17] LBJ landing at Camp Pendleton, child in crowd looking through binoculars, little kid in Marine uniform salutes, Girl Scouts in crowd, LBJ flanked by military men walking [16:12:08.20] flag surrounded by smoke from gun salute, LBJ walks to podium, Color Guard at attention [16:12:26.29] soldier, Color Guard, parade at Marine barrack in Washington, LBJ signs "Honor Roll" book,

4 [16:12:58.24] wedding of Corp. Henry Miller, medals on uniform [16:13:24.00] General Wallace Green retirement ceremony in Washington D.C. (Gen. Leonard Chapman takes over) [16:14:06.14] ceremony continues [16:14:22.10] helicopter lands, soldiers walking across field (in silhouette) [16:14:58.00] film ends [16:15:02.07] "Scenes from Operation Independence Hill 10 Near Happy Valley, February 1967" [16:15:15.03] two soldiers in canoe on river [16:15:36.16] **note--"traditions Video" supered in upper left corner [16:15:44.27] soldiers landing and getting out of canoe [16:16:18.25] landscape with fire burning in BG, more shots of landscape [16:16:52.01] hill with soldiers walking across top [16:17:26.28] soldiers on hillside silhouetted against sunset [16:17:52.22] slate- 5 Feb 67 [16:17:54.12] soldiers walking toward camera, group conferring [16:18:27.03] soldiers running to get on helicopter

5 [16:18:41.23] plane flying with mountains in BG [16:19:01.00] soldier patrolling on wall [16:19:22.29] camp with burning hut in BG [16:19:43.00] destroyed camp on fire, soldiers patrol [16:20:13.08] soldier eating under canopy of branches [16:20:38.11] slate-6 Feb 67 [16:20:39.11] field with greenery in FG, dead body covered with palm branches, dead body [16:21:33.10] woven mat, dead body hidden under palm branch [16:21:55.26] field with smoke and soldier running across, soldier standing in field and shooting [16:22:34.01] group of soldiers moving across field, trees in BG [16:22:48.18] dead body, wounded (?) soldier in grass [16:23:11.27] slate-7 Feb 67 [16:23:12.20] carrying wounded to helicopter, loading them onto helicopter [16:23:31.25] Field [16:23:46.10] tent in FG, mountains in BG, pan around area to show roof tops of building [16:24:43.24] Tape ends

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