Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. GENERAL WAR COVERAGE, II ROK CORPS AND U.S. TROOPS OF 3RD DIV, 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. GENERAL WAR COVERAGE, II ROK CORPS AND U.S. TROOPS OF 3RD DIV, KOREA

1953

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Colored soldier, his feet bare, sits cross-legged on a rock and cleans carbine clip. A GI washes his face with water from roadside stream. A whimpering Korean has his hand bandaged by an American soldier at the bottom of the MLR. Another wounded Korean is brought in. Korean medics cut the clothes from his body. Dead Chinese soldier sprawled in the dirt. A corpse lying face down in water of ditch. A covered body is brought in by two Koreans on improvised stretcher. Two GIs, assisted by an ROK load and fire a 4.2 mortar. Pan, old clothing, paper, rubble strewn about. RV, a naked soldier taking a shower at tank. ROKs fire mortar. An ROK opens a case of mortar shells. A wounded Korean on the ground. Men try to question him. Gen Maxwell Taylor, a Korean general, other officers enter area on foot. Korean sitting near road sign. Jeeps, and other vehicles move by on road as a Korean directs the traffic. Several makeshift tents with Koreans standing nearby. A hut made of sandbags. Pan, area of sandbag position, wrecked chapel, and sign: "5th FA Group Chapel". CUs, wrecked chapel. Burned 2-wheel trailer, a gutted jeep, damaged US half-track, rubble in vehicle, rubble strewn in area, old cans, bits of wood, cardboard, overturned table. Exhausted Korean troops dozing in ditch along road.

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

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Maxwell Davenport Taylor (August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987) was a senior United States Army officer and diplomat of the mid-20th century.[1] He served with distinction in World War II, most notably as commander of the 101st Airborne Division, nicknamed "The Screaming Eagles." After the war, he served as the fifth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, having been appointed by President John F. Kennedy. He is the father of biographer and historian John Maxwell Taylor and of military historian ...