US Senate committee investigates charges by Gen. Van Fleet that troops in his 8th Army Command in Korea did not have enough shells
Title Card: "Paramount News - Korea Ammunition - Senate Committee Probes Charges" / EXT the Senate Office Building / MS Gen. James Van Feet, retiring U.S. 8th Army Commander, arrives with aide, going into Armed Services Room 22 / CU Van Fleet // MS field gun firing / MS soldiers loading shells into field gun / MS field gun firing / MS tank firing / Front view of soldier loading shell into bazooka / Rear shot of soldier firing bazooka / side CU soldier firing rifle / side MS soldier firing automatic rifle / MS field gun firing / High shot battery of tanks firing / PAN mass of used shell cases / CU unloaded empty shell cases // MS Senate Armed Services Committee hearing / CU L to R: Van Fleet; Charles Erwin Wilson, Secretary of Defense; Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, Secretary of the Army; Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, seated / PAN across Van Fleet in uniform to Wilson, to Stevens, to Collins in uniform / WS meeting / CU Van Fleet talking to Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, R-MA, Committee chair / Saltonstall at microphone / Saltonstall listening to VO question regarding whether. Van Fleet's charges have been substantiated; SOT Saltonstall: "Gen. Van Fleet stated there were severe shortages in the Eighth Army in the past year. Unquestionably there were severe shortages but they are now being overcome." / cameramen / SOT Saltonstall: "the Committee intends to get to the bottom of any conflict of testimony, but primarily to see that we have ample ammunition for our boys to be as secure as possible and to carry out the plans of ourselves and our people in Europe as well as Asia in the days to come." / Note: exact day not known
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Editorial #:
1336689317
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
March 01, 1953
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Clip length:
00:01:51:06
Location:
Washington DC, United States
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QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr004883_01_01
- Bazooka - Weapon,
- Leverett Saltonstall,
- 1950-1959,
- Ammunition,
- Archival,
- Armored Tank,
- Army,
- Army Soldier,
- Arrival,
- Artillery,
- Asking,
- Assistant,
- Automatic,
- Black And White,
- Charles Erwin Wilson - Secretary of Defense,
- Chief of Staff,
- Conflict,
- Court Hearing,
- Deficiency - Condition,
- Equipment,
- Film - Moving Image,
- General - Military Rank,
- Gun,
- HD Format,
- Horizontal,
- J. Lawton Collins,
- Korean War,
- Law,
- Legal Proceeding,
- Listening,
- Loading,
- Machine Gun,
- Meeting,
- Microphone,
- Newsreel,
- Officer - Military Rank,
- Politics,
- Politics and Government,
- Produced Segment,
- Real Time Video,
- Retirement,
- Rifle,
- Secretary of Defense,
- Senator,
- Shooting a Weapon,
- Side View,
- Sitting,
- Talking,
- Testimony,
- US Military,
- US Senate Armed Services Committee,
- USA,
- United States Senate,
- Unloading,
- Video with Sound,
- War,
- Washington DC,