https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/efae861c-a889-455f-909c-1fb367989709 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Shot by an American serviceman in late autumn or early winter, this film contains footage from the Korean War era 1950-1953. It appears the person who filmed this was part of the U.S. Marine Corps T-461 (later NMH-461) Heavy Helicopter Squadron HQ. The squadron's bases in Japan and Korea are shown, operating as Marine Aircraft Group 43. Footage starts with some returning GIs who've just been brought to Japan or Korea by a C-124, then showing what is likely the Pohang Air Base in Korea, switching to Tokyo, Japan street scenes, shots of municipal government buildings and Mitsubishi 21, next to Shinjuku, and then the film moves back to the 7th USMC regiment base and MASH unit in Korea . 0:07-0:42 A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II lands and taxies to a stop 0:47 A C-54 flies by 0:56 A group of GIs walks out of the C-124 1:01 Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron T-461 HQ with a sign ""United States Marine Corps Air Freight and Passengers -- Anything, Anywhere, Anytime 1:12 Flyover footage of a cemetery and fields, filmed off a Sikorski H-19/S-55 Chickasaw 1:25 Iced-over shallow ponds and rice paddies at a village, probably in Korea, Pohang. 1:43 Flyover view of a group of people dancing 1:56 More ponds and houses 2:01 H-34 USMC transport helicopters 2:01 Forward operating base, a H-19/S-55 Chickasaw, tail number HR-7, some more H-19s in the background 2:30 -Tokyo Mitsubishi 21 Building, now the site of the Mitsubishi 21 skyscraper 2:45 Yuraku Hotel, Yumaku Building, Sign in Japanese Ryogoku Bank/Bank of Two countries 2:50 Mitsubishi 21 building 3:12 Site of the Tokyo municipal government 3:30 Streets of Tokyo 4:09 Beauty salon, permanent curls 4:14 Local train lines, probably next to the Shinjuku station 4:56 Sushi restaurant 4:57 More footage of the streets, freight trains passing by 5:40 A young Japanese mother with her toddler 5:47 Mounted police officer 5:55 Advertisements for Suzuki reproductive health clinic, Shimbashi Internal disease clinic, municipal election ads. A couple enjoying a slow walk the rays of late autumn sun. 6:37 Left-to-right Morinaga milk, a tobacconist, a men's accessories and neckties shop Western clothing, socks, Fujiya bar, further deep down the street, an assorted rice and noodle bowl eatery, assorted… Niko-Niko(Smile) manju (Japanese sweet dumpling) 7:03 Small alley: Namura Dental clinic, Honetsugi medical exams, Doi Consulting, and some more political advertisement on the light pole. 7:10 A greengrocer Hachimaru, a shop name being a play on the term greengrocer (yaoya, which is written in a similar way to Hachimaru) and a pachinko gambling parlor Miyako/Capital 7:20 “Fruit and nut store” in post-1945 reform left-to-right writing former “Shomaru” outlet in old pre-1945 right-to-left writing, Tokyo Hall, Western clothing, Kanako or Kaneko bookshop. 7:44 Aerial view towards a US battleship or cruiser at a port, probably Yokosuka, accompanied by a destroyer battlegroup, pan up to reveal Mount Fuji 8:05 Aerial view of multistory buildings, again at and around Yokohama, Yokosuka, generally Saitama prefecture. 8:49 A flyby of an island 9:00 return flight to Mount Fuji at dusk 9:28 Something which looks like holy mounds, a couple of torii, and a man standing next to them. 9:50 Colossal statues in Korea 10:03 More aerial views of the Korean landscapes, fields and people walking on the road 10:23 FOB from above, parked helicopters 10:27 Landing 11:12 Terraced fields taken by late autumn or early winter ice 11:15 S-55, tail number HR-15 taking off. 11:28 The jolly US GI gentleman, without his green spectacles – he's perhaps a USMC press corps man 11:51 Talking to a South Korean military member 12:27 Two GIs next to a tent and a truck, matriculated USMC 60129908 12:45 Latrines 12:54 GI smoking, P.I.O. Radio Security 13:40 South Korean workers or possibly North Korean POWs digging the frozen earth. 13:50 Huge pontoon bridge across a river. Escorting a military ambulance to the USMC 7th Regiment hospital 14:18 Stones reading “E Med USN USMC” MASH unit / Mobile Army Surgeon's Hospital. More helicopters and tents. 14:54 Servicing a USMC S-55, Tail number HR-14, view towards the railroad. Steam locomotive at the FOB, backing-up. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. 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