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Hopes Brighten For Truce In Korea
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keywords: cold war, korean war, panmunjom, injured us troops, medevac helicopters, dust off, day night rocket barrage
Synopsis: Surrounded by a security of barrage balloons and searchlights Panmunjom the meeting place for truce talks between North Korea and the UN coalition is still a dangerous place as one barrage balloon being deflated explodes injuring 14 US troops with the badly wounded being transported to hospitals using Medevac helicopters while UN Forces on the battlefield unleash a tremendous rocket barrage at enemy positions in the hills that lasts well into the night...(read more)
- Date: 1951
- Duration: 00:01:31
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Korea
Truce For Korean War Gets Closer To Reality
With Red negotiators apparently veering closer to U.N. ideas of a truce line, hopes for peace brighten on the war scared peninsula. Tragedy does strike near the truce headquarters, when a balloon being sent up to mark the site bursts, wounding the crew. Rescue helicopters fly the men to rear areas. Meanwhile, despite the truce talks, U.N. rocket launchers send a deadly barrage into communist lines.
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- Newsreels: 1951 - November 1
