- Title: VM-1013A
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE: U.S. ARMY INFANTRYMEN.
- Description:00:01:47 - 00:01:04 "THE BIG RED ONE" STORY OF THE 1ST INFANTRY DIVISION IN WWII, PLUS STORY OF COMBAT INFANTRY BADGE. THE BLUE BADGE 00:01:50 NARRATOR SGT. JAMES MANFIELD TELLS THE STORY OF THE COMBAT INFANTRY MAN FROM ITS CONCEPTION IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR THROUGH KOREA. 00:02:48 - MS- A BATALLION OF INFANTRYMEN STAND AT EASE AT A PARADE GROUND (PAN) 00:03:07 - MS- FAMOUS STATUE OF THE MINUTEMAN THE 1ST COMBAT INFANTRYMAN. MS- FAMOUS CONCORD BRIDGE WHERE THE 'SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD' WAS FIRED. 00:03:38 - MS- FAMOUS PAINTING OF THE MINUTEMEN MARCHING. LS- PAN OF VALLEY FORGE IN WINTER TO THE MONUMENT THERE. CU- THE AMERICAN 13 STAR FLAG. 00:04:40 - LS- PRESENT DAY YORKTOWNS FIELDS, BUNKER HILL AND THE MONUMENT THERE, TICONDEROGA, NIAGARA LAKE CHAMPLAIN AND MANHATTAN, ALL REVOLUTIONARY DAY BATTLEFIELDS. 00:05:30 - MONTAGE- SCENIC USA FROM EAST TO WEST AND NORTH TO SOUTH, NARRATOR NAMES SOLDIERS AND PEOPLE THAT MADE AMERICA GREAT. 00:05:50 - MS- 3 OF REMAINING CIVIL WAR OLD TIME VETERANS IN UNION AND CONFEDERATE UNIFORMS WALK ARM-IN-ARM 00:06:00 - MS- BATTALION OF INFANTRYMEN IN PRE-WWII UNIFORMS MARCH. MS- A BATALLION OF HORSEBACK CAVALRYMEN RIDE BY IN PARADE. 00:06:31 - LS- SMALL TOWN USA. LS- CAVALRY GALLOP THROUGH A WOODED AREA. 00:07:08 - LS- GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. MS- TRAIN SPEEDING THROUGH A TUNNEL AND PASS A MOUNTAINSIDE AND A RIVER. AS SEEN FROM ENGINEERS SEAT. 00:08:04 - MS- SOLDIERS MARCHING TOWARDS AND PASSING THE CAMERA. 00:09:40 - LS- FREIGHTER GOING THROUGH THE LOCKS OF PANAMA CANAL. 00:10:31 - NARRATOR INTRODUCES COL. ANTHONY QUINN. A LARGE VERSION OF THE COMBAT INFANTRY BADGE IS ON THE WALL BEHIND HIM. MS- QUINN TELLS ABOUT THE COMBAT INFANTRY BADGE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE. 00:12:13 - COLONEL QUINN TELLS THE HISTORY OF THE 1ST INFANTRY DIVISION, 'THE BIG RED ONE'. 00:12:23 - MS- AN INFANTRYMAN WALKING HIS POST COMPLETE WITH WHITE HELMET TO HIS WHITE SPATS (PAN). BECOMES A REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER FEET WALKING HIS POST TO A CIVIL WAR SOLDIER TO, A WWI SOLDIER WALKING IN MUD. 00:12:51 - CU- CIVILIAN FEET WALKING THEN GIS' FEET WALKING ON ROAD IN WWII. 00:13:07 - MONTAGE- GIS TRAINING FOR WWII. ANIMATED WWII WAR MAPS. MS- GENERAL TERRY ALLEN ON SHIP GOING TO ENGLAND. GIS OF THE 'BIG RED ONE' CROWDED TOGETHER ON TROOPSHIP DECK LAYING AROUND, PLAYING WITH A BASKETBALL AND SINGING AS THEY HEAD TO NO. AFRICA. 00:13:29 - MONTAGE- NAVAL BOMBARDMENT OF NO. AFRICA LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY AS SCARED GIS FACE THEIR 1ST ACTION 00:13:39 - MS- FACES OF SCARED GIS AS THEY TAKE THEIR PLACES IN LANDING CRAFT. MONTAGE- GIS STORM THE BEACHES. 00:14:07 - MS- AN ARAB GESTURES WITH HIS HAND TO GIS RIDING IN A RAILROAD FREIGHT CAR SMILING AT HIM. 00:14:14 - LS- EXPLODING BOMB AS NAZI PLANES ATTACK THE U.S. SOLDIERS WHO FIRE RIFLES AT THE DIVING PLANES 00:14:22 - MS- A NAZI MACHINE CREW FIRING WEAPON AND A U.S. MACHINE GUN FIRING BACK. 00:14:39 - MS- GERMAN GENERAL ROMMEL IN HIS STAFF CAR LISTENS TO HIS AIDES. 00:14:50 - MS- ANIMATED MAP SHOW U.S. FORCES CLOSING IN ON NAZI IN TUNIS, NO. AFRICA. 00:14:52 - MONTAGE- FLASHES OF LIGHTS IN NIGHT AS ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT OPENS UP ON THE NAZI. ADVANCING TROOPS ARE SEEN AS THE LIGHTS FLASH. 00:15:19 - MS- GIS AND BRITISH TROOPS MEET IN THE DESERT EXCHANGE CIGARETTES AND CHAT. 00:15:31 - LS- GIS CLIMB THE GANGPLANK ON A TROOPSHIP WITH THEIR GEAR, INSTEAD OF HOME THEY WENT TO INVADE SICILY. MAP SHOWS THE INVASION. 00:15:45 - MS- GIS WALK ALONG THE DESERTED TOWNS OF SICILY. AERIAL VIEW OF BOMBED OUT TOWN. 00:16:26 - MONTAGE- GIS GO THROUGH TRAINING IN ENGLAND FOR THE UP-COMING INVASION. MS- GIS POP IN AND OUT OF FLAMING WATER. 00:16:44 - MONTAGE- WARSHIPS BOMBARD THE NORMANDY BEACHES ON D-DAY. MS- GIS CLIMB DOWN NET LADDERS INTO THE LANDING CRAFTS. 00:17:03 - LS- GIS OF THE 1ST DIVISION HITTING THE 'OMAHA' BEACHHEAD UNDER HEAVY NAZI FIRE SHOWING SOME BEING HIT AND FALLING. 00:17:27 - LS- GROUPS OF PINNED DOWN INFANTRYMEN BATTLE IN THE INFAMOUS HEDGEGROVES DIGGING DEEP FOXHOLES FOR PROTECTION FROM 88'S AND MORTORS. 00:18:05 - MS- GI GETS A HAIRCUT FROM A BUDDY AS ANOTHER WRITES A LETTER HOME. 00:19:00 - MONTAGE- INFANTRYMEN WALKING THROUGH VILLAGE AFTER VILLAGE SOME EAT AS THEY WALK FORWARD. 00:19:50 - MONTAGE- GERMAN PRISONERS ARE WALKED TO THE REAR BY THE THOUSANDS. 00:19:54 - MS- A GERMAN PRISONER BURIED UP TO THE CHEST IN DEBRIS ATTEMPTS TO DIG HIMSELF OUT WITH HIS HANDS 00:20:30 - MONTAGE- HEAVY FIGHTING IN THE STREETS OF ARKIN AS GIS FIGHT HOUSE TO HOUSE. 00:21:11 - LS- A WHITE FLAG OF SURRENDER HANGS FROM A WINDOW OF A BULLET RIDDLED BUILDING. MS- A HALF TRACK RIDES OVER A NAZI FLAG LYING IN THE STREET. 00:21:45 - MONTAGE- GIS GET BOGGED DOWN IN HERTGIN FOREST AS GERMAN MACHINE GUN AND ARTILLERY BOMBARD THE U.S.FORCES. LS- AFTER THE BATTLE WEARY GIS MARCH OUT OF THE FOREST VICTORIOUSLY. 00:21:56 - GIS FINALLY GET A REST AFTER 6 MONTHS. MS- THE FEET OF A GI APPROACHES THE FEET OF A FRENCH LADY AND THEY BOTH STOP. THE GIRLS LIFTS ONE FOOT AND RUBS IT AGAINST THE BACK OF THE OTHER AS THOUGH SHE WAS BEING KISSED. 00:22:25 - 1ST DIVISION TROOPS FIGHT IN THE SNOW AT THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE IN THE ARDENNE FORREST AND THE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN OVER THE RHINE. 00:23:24 - MS- A GI SOUND ASLEEP IN A GULLY WITH HIS RIFLE BY HIS SIDE. MONTAGE- FACES OF THE GI OF THE 'BIG RED ONE'. 00:24:04 - SERGEANT AT DESK SPEAKS ABOUT BIG RED ONE 00:27:49 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1013A