Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. CAMP DESERT ROCK, NEVADA

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. CAMP DESERT ROCK, NEVADA

1951

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VS, sheep in pens arranged for atomic test effects. Table and chair, obsolete liaison plane, caged sheep on test grounds. Gen. Mark Clark chats with two unidentified general officers. Two cigar-smoking soldiers look skyward. Group of soldiers play dice. Soldier places an M-1 rifle at edge of a foxhole in the sand. He places a cardboard strip in the receiver mechanism. Troop truck convoy and jeeps drive on desert highway. Sign: "IK"; electrical terminal board; containers marked, "Coil C-114 Loading"; sand-covered dummy and walkie-talkie in area. In area "IJ": a coil of communications wire, walkie-talkie lashed to broken post, split wooden pole, top of a telephone pole. Early dawn effect. Trucks arrive at unloading point. Troops detruck by flashlight and march off. Day. Sig Corps motion picture photogs work from ground and 3/4 ton truck to picture assembled troops and prepare for the atomic blast.

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Clark, Mark Wayne, 1896-1984

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Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984) was born in Madison Barracks, New York. After he graduated from West Point in 1917, he commissioned in the infantry. During World War I, he became wounded in combat while commanding a battalion in France. He served with the War Department General Staff from 1921 to 1924. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 1935 and the Army War College two years later. Between 1940 and 1942, he served at General Headquarters and then Army Ground Forces. He rose ...