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The Big Picture: OCS Fort Sill The Big Picture takes its cameras to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Artillery Center of the free world where the modern artilleryman is trained in both cannon and missile artillery. The Big Picture follows a young soldier through Fort Sill's Artillery and Missile Officer Candidate School in 1961. The Big Picture, an official weekly report to the nation from the United States Army, aired on television from 1951 to 1971.
The Big Picture: Infantry OCS at Fort Benning 1951-1952 An Infantry OCS graduate serving in Korea as a platoon leader recalls his time at Fort Benning in this documentary about Infantry Training.
Features, use and capabilities of field artillery weaponry in the cannon type artillery category and rocket and missile category.
The Field Artillery Center Visits Fort Sill on the 100th anniversary of its founding - includes the Artillery Center and School, the museum, and a "live fire" demonstration.
Fire Power: Artillery A firsthand account of how American artillery was employed in Korea. Included in the film is a study of the Army's new atomic cannon... the 280mm gun.
History of Firepower The story of man's weaponry from the caveman's punch to the missile man's firepower.
King of Battle "King of Battle," the newest release in the Army's TV series THE BIG PICTURE, portrays dramatically the development of artillery in the Army from 1776 to 1957.
42nd Artillery Group Artillery, the king of battle, is closely examined by THE BIG PICTURE camera in the Seventh Army area in Europe.
The Big Picture - Missile Man Covers training activities at three of the major centers (includes Fort Sill) in which the Army's missile men receive their highly specialized training.
The Big Picture: Army Air Defense Command (ARADCOM): The Inner Ring This film shows how the soldiers of the Army Air Defense Command used the Nike Hercules and other missiles in their control to defend the U.S. against imaginary enemy attack. Scenes also describe the development of the newer Nike X missile.
1958 – “Just behind the Coastal Range of Central California, the U.S. Army has a new 250,000 acre natural laboratory where all sorts of military concepts for possible future conflict are tested and evaluated by the latest principles of scientific research. At the Hunter Liggett Military Reservation, top scientists and top soldiers first create, then supervise a series of controlled combat experiments to determine which organizational structures, which weapons and materiel, which tactics and techniques might be most effective in the years ahead.”
This film is about the helicopter door gunner, nicknamed "Shotgun Rider." He was a new addition to the helicopter crew, and the film shows him as he performed some of his various duties in Vietnam, after a rigorous training program.
“Flying Soldiers is a documentary film which dramatically presents the story of Army aviation. Viewers will see everything from a foot soldier to an Honest John missile. A simulated battle is staged for the cameras in which fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters rush vitally needed soldiers to the front. Also seen in this episode is the latest in Army aircraft - the revolutionary 'Tilt-Wing,' the Caribou, and the Mohawk.Today Army aviation is more than a new weapon. It multiplies the effectiveness of every new weapon we have now, and those we will have in the future.”
