Letter from the Mohave.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Big picture ; episode 349

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army.

United States.

Mojave Desert.

Genre:

Documentary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (27 min.).

Place of Publication:

Washington D.C. : Army Pictorial Service, 1956.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

Dear Mom and Dad: Boy! That a place . . ." so begins this week's release in the Army's TV series, THE BIG PICTURE, taking the viewer step-by- step through the day-by-day training of a soldier-tanker at the Armored Combat Training Center at Camp Irwin, California. Filmed under maneuver conditions which the soldier might expect to find in actual combat, this documentary relates the story of one soldier as he learned his job as a tanker. In scrupulous detail, the program reveals in the complex and thorough training schedule of men living in the Mohave Desert. On weekends, THE BIG PICTURE cameraman followed the soldiers for a visit to "Scotty's Castle" in Death Valley. On another occasion the lens focused on Calico, a real live ghost town, where the flavor of the Old West has been retained. Climaxing six weeks of hard training, "Letter From The Mohave" tells and shows the "payoff'" -- an attack on simulated enemy fortifications. The camera, mounted on the turret of the tank, moves in for the kill. This is fire and maneuver with all of its dramatic impact brought to the TV screen. It is the basic principle taught each soldier in all tank actions.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 23, 2011).

Previously published as DVD.

OCLC:

715152611