Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. LITTLE SWITCH, TASP (TRAIN AMBULANCE SWITCH POINT) MUNSAN-NI, KOREA

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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. LITTLE SWITCH, TASP (TRAIN AMBULANCE SWITCH POINT) MUNSAN-NI, KOREA

1953

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Hospital train bearing Communist prisoners from Pusan on its way to Freedom Village at a temporary stop at a railroad station. Guards on the platform with rifles ready. Armed guards at Taegu station. Convoy of ambulances with their lights on as they come alongside railroad train. US medics, personnel, carefully assist Communist prisoners off the train and lead them to the ambulances. Gens. Clark, Taylor, Kendall, Weyland walk along the platform, watch. MS as the prisoners, some who use crutches, others with one leg, are assisted into the ambulances. Gen Clark and others watch from the r. American ambulances carrying UN returnees arrive at Freedom Village. Gens Clark, Taylor, and others, greet the men as they unload. These are all HLSs. Some unsteady pans of the tent city at Munsan-Ni.

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Weyland, Otto P. (Otto Paul), 1902-1979

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Air Force officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Otto P. Weyland : oral history, 1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122684175 Otto Paul Weyland (b. Jan. 27, 1902, Riverside, Calif.-d. Sept. 2, 1979), General in the U.S. Air Force, was commissioned in the Air Service upon his graduation from Texas A&M in 1923. During World War II, he served as commanding officer, 16th Pursuit Group; deputy director of air support at Air For...

Kendall, Paul W. (Paul Wilkins), 1898-1983

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Paul Wilkins Kendall was born in Baldwin City, Kansas in 1898. Kendall attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated in 1918 as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry. From 1918 to 1919 Kendall attended the Infantry School of Arms at Fort Benning, Georgia. Kendall was assigned to the 27th Infantry Unit after graduating and was sent to Russia during the Siberian Intervention where he received the Distinguished Service Cross in 1920. Kendall went on to several different postings...

Clark, Mark Wayne, 1896-1984

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Taylor, Maxwell D. (Maxwell Davenport), 1901-1987

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