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"KMAG ~ 1951-1953"
Korean War Home Movies

Color home movie footage filmed by a US military advisor in South Korea during the Korean War. KMAG was the US Military Advisory Group to the Republic of Korea during the war, headquartered at Taegu. They helped to train South Korean soldiers and provided logistics to the ROK Army.

You'll see scenes filmed by the KMAG advisor -- but often he has someone else filming him: observing and helping Korean soldiers as they set up camp, pitching tents, planting shrubs and trees. He goofs off for the camera, lifting weights and doing stop-action filming as he dons his uniform piece-by-piece. There's footage of S. Korean soldiers training: wiggling under barbed wire, rifle drill, and firing Quad-50s from the back of half-tracks at a nearby hill. You'll see the South Koreans around the camp, camouflaging tents with tree branches, cooking a huge pot of cabbage over the fire, washing pots in the river, playing volleyball, and more.
There are winter scenes filmed in a cold, snowy town -- probably Pusan, with military and civilians milling around, long convoy of trucks, and ships in the harbor. Soldiers and equipment are being loaded onto the attack transport USS Noble (APA-218).
There is some footage filmed in a hospital ward, with our advisor and other patients wearing robes, clowning around and pestering the nurses. It may have been a hospital in Japan.
There's some nice footage of hospital ships at Pusan, including the USS Repose and USS Haven, and the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia. You'll also see a patient being transferred from a troop ship aboard a hospital transport craft. There's footage shot in the town of Taegu and vicinity -- civilians going about their normal daily routine, and more.
Other footage includes:
~a Brigadier General from IX Corps shaking hands with Korean soldiers
~shots of what may be enemy prisoners being guarded by S. Korean soldiers
~Aircraft Carriers USS Sicily and USS Los Angeles
~Destroyer Squadron including USS Perkins, Frank Evans, Bradford and Nicholas
~Taegu PX
...and more

The DVD has a soundtrack of 1950s-era radio shows.
Running Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes

PRICE: $24.00

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Click Below to watch some clips from "KMAG 1951-1953" -- Please note that because of the transfer process this You Tube video is of a lesser quality than the actual DVD.

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