Pictorial report number 26.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

United States. Army Pictorial Center.

United States. Dept. of the Army.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Big picture ; episode 353

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fort Huachuca (Ariz.).

Galax (Va.).

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:

For the first story the camera frames a picture of Fort Huachuca, Arizona, one of the most modern of all the Army's installations. Here in this desolate country, surrounded by empty desert and mountains, the Army has found an ideal proving ground for newly developed electronic equipment. Viewers will see the testing of an amazing reconnaissance robot, the pilotless plane--the drone; the newly developed radio contained in an infantryman's helmet and used under combat conditions; and the new all-weather flight control--a system of seeing in the dark. Fort Huachuca is a miracle testing ground, where 8,000 men and women are working to find new ways of protecting America. The second story concerns the farming community of Galax in Southern Virginia. Here is a township on the eve of its Centennial Jubilee volunteering its help through a Chamber of Commerce committee to form an Army Reserve training company that could march in the Centennial parade. It is a warm-hearted story of a people determined to keep American democracy safe. For they know that freedom is everybody's business.

Notes:

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

Previously published as DVD.

OCLC:

701797052