Operation Discovery.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

United States. Army Pictorial Center.

United States. Dept. of the Army.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Big picture ; episode 456

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army.

United States.

Basic training (Military education).

Fort Dix (N.J.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (29 min.).

Place of Publication:

Washington D.C. : Army Pictorial Service, 1959.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

Depicts the life of a young soldier from induction into the modern Army until his ultimate "graduation" from basic. During the course of the film, he "discovers" the why and wherefore of his obligated peacetime service. Eddy Manson, one of this country's top harmonica virtuosos, is featured in this film in an impromptu rendition of "The Ballad of Roger Young" which is used throughout the film. It was written by Frank Loesser and is one of the few songs to survive the war. It tells of the Ohio-born infantryman who died fighting in the Solomon Islands while heroically saving the lives of others. Among the Service personnel in the picture, Maj. Gen. Sidney Wooten, Commanding General of Fort Dix, New Jersey; a company and battalion commander of the training regiment there; and Fort Dix enlisted men. Much of the footage was shot at the New Jersey post.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 26, 2010).

Previously published as DVD.

OCLC:

701797303