| Front Line Action - Marine Officer Reportds Battle With Vietcong | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1747 |
| Catalog #: | 426218 | |
| Clip Number: | 426218-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 039-026-01 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Vietnam | |
| Year Shot: | 1966 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | HABITATS, HUMAN: Rural Village LOCATIONS/SOUTHEAST ASIA: Vietnam (Indochina) MILITARY: Army, USA MILITARY: Marines, US WAR & CONFLICT: Battle WAR & CONFLICT/VIETNAM: Battle WEAPONS: Guns, Field | |
| Description: | A dramatic description from the scene of a recent U.S. Marine search and clear mission by Marine Lieut. Dick Neckline. Under murderous Vietcong fire the young Marine never pauses as he describes the action of flushing a Vietcong regiment from its jungle caves and fastnesses. Truly Heroic! Establishing shot - In a Vietnamese village a Marine Officer, Lieut. Dick Nicklin standing with a microphone in hand describing the action of the soldiers, the sounds gun fire of attacking North Vietnamese. MS - As he's speaking its pretty quiet. He reports there is going be a very methodical search of the Vietnamese grass huts that are behind him. MS - Marines walking very slow up to a grass hut. MS - A woman holding her baby on her hip. MS - A soldier is speaking with his commanding officer, pointing. Soldiers are moving around looking for young men who can be members of the Vietcong and for tunnels and caves. LS - In the distance you can see the exploitations from motor fire and you can hear the sound of the bullets and the rapid firing of a machine gun. LS - You can see something is on fire in the distance. MS - Two soldiers step into the frame and for now they are just observing. You hear this long round of machine gun fire, you see a soldier running through the trees and then you see a Vietnam home hit by motor fire, and burst into flames. Marine Officer, Lieut. Dick Nicklin explains how the soldiers thought that they were in a rest period with nothing much happening when all hell broke loose 10-minutes ago. | |
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