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1 online resource (27 min.) |
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Big picture ; episode 337 |
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American history in video
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| Summary |
From the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series, 1950-1975 |
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"'Exercise Arctic Night' was designed to provide training in extreme cold weather for paratroopers of the famed 82nd Airborne Division. Seven hundred man hit the silk and dropped onto the frozen ice of a bay near Greenland's Thule Air Base. The jump made history for the Airborne Infantry; it was the largest, and, in fact, the first tactical drop ever made this far north. One of the scenes in the program depicts a road sign which reads: "North Pole -- 80 miles. An Army Signal Corps camera team of three sturdy volunteers braved temperatures of more than 40 degrees below zero to bring back the story for the TV audience. Host-narrator of the program, Master Sergeant Stu Queen, whose normal habitat is some 3,000 miles (and 70 degrees warmer) south of the North Pole, joined the Airborne Unit at their home, Fort Bragg, N.C. and flew with them to report the story. Exercise Arctic Night" was filmed with the cooperation of the Royal Danish Government, on whose Greenland territory the drop was performed."--National Archives and Records Administration |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Army. Airborne Division, 82nd.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Army. Airborne Division, 82nd. fast (OCoLC)fst00548360 |
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Thule Air Base (Greenland) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85284273
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Greenland -- Thule Air Base.
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Feature films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentary television programs.
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Nonfiction films.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Short films.
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Short films.
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Documentary television programs.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Short films.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Feature films.
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Documentaires télévisés.
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Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
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Courts métrages.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Streaming video
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United States. Army Pictorial Center.
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United States. Department of the Army.
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