{"id":715,"ia_identifier":"gov.archives.arc.32804","programme":"nara","naid":"32804","local_identifier":"111-LC-54518","pin":null,"title":"OPERATION YELLOWSTONE (25TH INFANTRY DIVISION)","year":1968,"date_raw":"1968-01-01T00:00:00Z","creator":"Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. US Army Audiovisual Center","description":"National Archives and Records Administration OPERATION YELLOWSTONE (25TH INFANTRY DIVISION) ARC Identifier 32804 / Local Identifier 111-LC-54518 1968 Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). Silent. Summary: Approx. 700': MG Fillmore K. Mearns, CG 25th Infantry Division, presents Silver Star to SP-4 William R. Richardson in field. Other officers and soldiers congratulate Richardson. Soldiers clean and check .50 cal MG on M-113 APC. M- 113s prepare to move out of lager. Soldiers remove sandbags from around the APCs. Travel shots of M-113s under way. M-113s going through dense jungle brush. Soldiers check freshly dug Vietcong graves in jungle. Travel shots of M-113s on jungle trail. M-113s arrive at campsite (laager). M-113s move out of laager into jungle, through brush and across clearing. CU, tracks of M-113s moving past. Soldiers atop M-113s as they cross shell-wrecked jungle. APCs arrive at clearing. Soldiers prepare to set up laager. M-113 knocks over small trees. Soldiers-dig in, fill sandbags. M-113 is directed over bunker to protect it from attack. Steel plates are placed by tracks of APC and are secured by sandbags. APC pulling out of its defensive position. M-113 in jungle. Soldiers check trail in jungle. Patrol crouches on trail; they stand up and continue. M-113s in defensive positions along trail. M-113s with soldiers atop move through brush and jungle. Soldier fires .50 cal MG from atop M-113. APCs return to laager. M-113 drives to a stop over same bunker it was protecting before patrol. FIRE SUPPORT COORDINATION.: Camp Evans, South Vietnam: 03/23/1968: Approx. 130': AVs, smoke rising from shell hits in field. AVs, UH-1D copters on ground with rotors turning. AVs, artillery shells exploding in field on outskirts of village.","licenseurl":"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","collections":["FedFlix","usgovfilms","newsandpublicaffairs","fav-chi_ly","fav-erin_fleming","fav-jcnewmexico","fav-kenneth_iturrino"],"ia_metadata":{"_rg":"111","date":"1968-01-01T00:00:00Z","year":1968,"title":"OPERATION YELLOWSTONE (25TH INFANTRY DIVISION)","creator":"National Archives and Records Administration","credits":"Uploaded by Public.Resource.Org<br />DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon","subject":["archives.gov","public.resource.org"],"_rg_holder":null,"collection":["FedFlix","usgovfilms","newsandpublicaffairs","fav-chi_ly","fav-erin_fleming","fav-jcnewmexico","fav-kenneth_iturrino"],"identifier":"gov.archives.arc.32804","licenseurl":"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","description":"National Archives and Records Administration OPERATION YELLOWSTONE (25TH INFANTRY DIVISION) ARC Identifier 32804 / Local Identifier 111-LC-54518 1968 Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). Silent. Summary: Approx. 700': MG Fillmore K. Mearns, CG 25th Infantry Division, presents Silver Star to SP-4 William R. Richardson in field. Other officers and soldiers congratulate Richardson. Soldiers clean and check .50 cal MG on M-113 APC. M- 113s prepare to move out of lager. Soldiers remove sandbags from around the APCs. Travel shots of M-113s under way. M-113s going through dense jungle brush. Soldiers check freshly dug Vietcong graves in jungle. Travel shots of M-113s on jungle trail. M-113s arrive at campsite (laager). M-113s move out of laager into jungle, through brush and across clearing. CU, tracks of M-113s moving past. Soldiers atop M-113s as they cross shell-wrecked jungle. APCs arrive at clearing. Soldiers prepare to set up laager. M-113 knocks over small trees. Soldiers-dig in, fill sandbags. M-113 is directed over bunker to protect it from attack. Steel plates are placed by tracks of APC and are secured by sandbags. APC pulling out of its defensive position. M-113 in jungle. Soldiers check trail in jungle. Patrol crouches on trail; they stand up and continue. M-113s in defensive positions along trail. M-113s with soldiers atop move through brush and jungle. Soldier fires .50 cal MG from atop M-113. APCs return to laager. M-113 drives to a stop over same bunker it was protecting before patrol. FIRE SUPPORT COORDINATION.: Camp Evans, South Vietnam: 03/23/1968: Approx. 130': AVs, smoke rising from shell hits in field. AVs, UH-1D copters on ground with rotors turning. AVs, artillery shells exploding in field on outskirts of village."},"status":"us-government-work","reason":"The record names a federal body as the creating agency: Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. US Army Audiovisual Center. 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