- Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: KOREAN TIGERS - THE TOUGH MEN OF VIETNAM
- Date: 30th May 1966
- Summary: KOREAN REVEILLE (SOF), TIGERS IN ACTION DURING OPERATION, REFUGEES BEING AIDED, TIGERS HEADQUARTERS, KOREANS PRACTISING TAE-KWON-DO (SOF), GENERAL CHAE MYUNG SHIN BEING INTERVIEWED (SOF). WHEN ASKED WHAT HE THOUGHT OF THE VIETCONG AS GUERILLA FIGHTERS, GENERAL SHIN HAD THIS TO SAY: SOF...... INTERVIEWER: "WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE VIETCONG AS A GUERILLA FIGHTER". GENERAL SHIN: "WELL THEY'VE HAD EXPERIENCE AS GUERILLA FORCES FOR A LONG TIME SO THIS TIME THEY ARE REALLY TRAINED TO FIGHT WITH US IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES. HOWEVER THEY ALSO DISCLOSE THEIR WEAKNESS SO THIS TIME WE COULD CATCH THEIR WEAKNESS SO I THINK IN THIS AREA THE VC'S HAD A VERY HARD TIME TO FIGHT WITH US BECAUSE ALREADY WE CAUGHT AND DISCOVER THEIR WEAKNESS AND THEY ARE....AND IT IS MUCH EASIER TO FIGHT FURTHER. Several shots water buffaloes swimming in village water hole (this indicates there is now water to spare). Many women villagers carrying soil to make dam. Tiger soldiers can be seen doing various jobs assisting villagers to build dam. Tigers artillery firing as support for ground action some miles away - this from other section of Go Boi village. FINIS 1-2. 105mm artillery firing from Go Boi village. 3-4. Part of Go Boi village in ruins - this happened when Tigers recaptured village from Viet-Cong - Tiger soldiers are now living in this area. 5-6. Tiger soldiers seen in area. NOTE: Salute "Meng-Ho". 7. Roman Catholic Church Go Boi - this is RC town. 8-9. Tigers enlisted men open mess facilities at Go Boi. 10-12. Vietnamese workers from Go Boi village being fed by Tigers at mess hall. 13-16. Practising Tae-Kwon-Do among ruins of Go Boi village - area where some of Tiger Division soldiers now use as barracks. Tae-Kwon-Do is practised any time, any place - whenever they have a spare moment. 17-18. Tiger soldiers swimming in river running thru village - it is obligatory for Tiger troops to do at least 30 minutes hard physical exercise per day. 19-20. Troops relaxing with came of darts - in background helicopters are rising into air. 21. Barbed wire entanglement over paddy-field perimeter of Go Boi - defenses on right of shot. 1. ROK (Republic of Korea) and Vietnamese flags flying. 2. Villagers with banners, flags - waiting for handing-over ceremony to begin. 3. ROK soldiers (Tigers), TILT to banner in Vietnamese & Korean - it says: "Tiger soldiers protect your life and your property always". 4-9. Cutaway shots of villagers - about to be returned home. 10-11. General CHAE arrives - Tiger band there. CHAE is Commanding General ROK FORCES IN Viet-Nam, also CG of Tiger Division. 12-14. At salute for National Anthems of ROK & VN - shot 13 is of American officer. 15. General CHAE addresses villagers - tells them: "We will fight against the Viet-Cong till the last drop of blood". 16-17. Tiger soldier. 18-19. Tiger soldiers around village hut - General CHAE in, followed by 20-21. .....villagers with their worldly possessions. (ROK soldiers) 22-24. Villagers, PAN to Vietnamese Popular Forces unit with weapons - they will now take over defense of village from Tigers. 25. Villagers, Popular Forces troops, Tiger Div. band (foreground). For possible use as insert material in film(s). Overlay material is noted and from what reel obtainable, &c. First. "VOICE OF THE TIGER": Korean language radio station on the Tigers base. First shot is of announcer opening up in usual station identification, which includes phrase: "This is the Voice of the Tiger". He ten introduces record. 45 ft Second shot is of control room - announcer can be seen thru window in background. Sound of Korean music as turntable revolves. Insert shots and overlay material can be taken from: reel 7 - shots 23-28 - interiors & exteriors of station. reel 12 - shots 8-10 - radio in living area of troops. "MENG-HO": 45-65 FT Means "fierce tiger". Every Korean soldier in the Tiger Division always greets an officer of the Tigers with the normal salute and at the same time says "MENG-HO". Pronounciation is understandably distorted by the troops in much the same way "halt", "sir", &c. are unrecognisable at times in the English-speaking armies. Whenever a soldier of the Tigers is seen saluting a Tiger officer, you can be sure that he says "MENG-HO. It is also used as a battle cry for the Tigers, and generally taken as a greeting among themselves. BUGLERS: 65-85 ft Two buglers playing a section of Korean equivalent of Reveille - 2 shots. Insert or overlay material can be taken from reel 12 - shots 17-22 - flag-raising & general HQ area (camp). This is done at dawn. TAE-KWON-DO: 85-100 ft Pronounced at-kwon-doe (ta as in cat). Often erroneously referred to as karate in western countries. Karate is included in tae-kwon-do. Sound of instructions and massed cry of "ay-eeh", or similar. Instructions are from instructor and naturally mean something, but "ay-een" is merely to help instill the esprit de corps - much the same way in which a footballer will give a x "yah" or similar cry when tackling an opponent. Overlap material can be obtained from reel 13 - first 50'. ROK & VN flags flying near Tigers Hospital. Interiors of hospital with patients and Korean doctors and nurses. 1. Nurse Captain LEE of Seoul with 2 doctors and Tiger soldier patient. 2. Then plaster patient (Tiger soldier) with nurse Captain CHUN of Chon Ju, Korea. 3. Viet-Cong patient has wound dressed (hole in side) by doctor Captain CHUNT of Kochung, Korea, and nurse Lieutenant LEE of Chon Ju, Korea. Then 3 shots in X-Ray department. Laboratory shot. Exterior shots hospital area.....may be overexposed. Hospital has 400 beds. FINIS 1-2. Logistic support command area - convoy in distance. 3-17. Montage of shots showing maintenance, &c. in repair sections, - last of these is 105mm barrel with split section. 18-20. Army boots being repaired. 21-22. Food stores being unloaded. 23-26. Interiors "Voice of the Tiger" radio station on base - shows disc then announcer in background, then shots announcer. 27. Sign - says "Voice of the Tiger". 28. Aerial for station _ TILT down. FINIS 1. Korean officers garlanded. 2. General CHAE garlanded. He is Commanding General Tiger Div. and also CG ROK Forces in Viet-Nam. 3-8. Korean Tae-Kwon_Do instructors garlanded by Vietnamese girls in their national dress - the Ao-Dai (pronounced ow-zeye). 9-26. Display by young men and women pupils of Korean instructors instructors can be seen wearing garlands of flowers - on one in seen Tiger emblem. FINIS 1. Tiger soldiers past in truck. 2-10. Tigers assist refugees unload trucks of all their goods. 11-14. On track thru paddy fields to new homes - an old village now in safe area. 15-19. At new living area.....few old huts, &c. 20-22. Korean Tiger officer gives cigaretts to old lady. FINIS 1. Sign in characters says "JAEGU" -(pronounced Jay Koo) 2-5. Company area on front line. 6-13. Firing pattern: rifles, machine-guns, 50-calibre (mounted with crew). This is done at irregular intervals as raking fire against VC positions within several hundred yards - virtually impossible to locate enemy movements due to heavy wooded undergrowth, tunnels, &c. 14-16. Zig-zag pattern of trenches as night sentries take their positions. Note how troops can retreat yard-by-yard back thru trenches - also defend position from various sides 17-22. Jaegu Company Commander, Captain CHUNG from KANG HOUNG City in Korea inspects rifles, &c. of troops before they take up positions. 23-28. Lookout tower, shots from tower over Korean position - all area outside perimeter is Viet-Cong - at the moment. 29-32. Tiger troops of company relax with game of chess just before dark - no lights are shown at night. FINIS 1-6. Jaegu Company troops "relax" with tae-kwon-do at Jaegu position. 7-8. Jaegu Company troops "relax" with Korean wrestling Jaegu position. 9. Sign Jae Koo Hamlet - named after Jaegu (same pronounciation) Coy. 10. Cottages built with help of Koreans, TILT to mother & kids. 11. Similar 12. Travelling shot cottages. 13-15. Tiger troops on guard at gate to village - villagers returning for night to safety of hamlet. 16. Captured Chinese Communist sub-machine gun, TILT to Tiger on sentry duty - night before he had killed VC and captured weapon. 17-18. Sentry on duty. Last 4 shots back at Tiger HQ 19-22. Guard at main gate - gives "Meng-Ho" salute. FINIS There is sound of these same troops practising Tae-Kwon-Do on 100' "sound insets" reel. Pronounced ta-kwon-doe (ta as in cat) 1-8. Troops practising Tae-Kwon-Do in camp area - 30 minutes active sport is compulsory per day. 9-14. Six black-belt instructors training together - they are actually connecting with their blows. Div. HQ - Qui Nhon road: 15. Bridge on road, Tiger on guard duty, traffic beyond. 16-17. Guard - military trucks being washed in river below him. 18-19. Traffic on road. All this was previously VC controlled and traffic was almost at a standstill - trade and communication virtually impossible. 20-22. Peasants at work near road in paddy fields. 23-25. Shots in Qui Nhon town. This was previously acknowledged most "unsafe" large town in South Viet-Nam - now under Korean protection with terrorism almost nil. FINIS Initials JRS/VS/JH/FAS NOTE: TAE-KWON-DO pronounced ta-kwon-doe (ta as in cat). Tae-Kwon-Do is often erroneously called karate in western countries. This is only partially correct, as tae-kwon-do includes karate among other skills. First few shots of Tae-Kwon-Do and wrestling are of troops in Jaegu Company - see reel 10. This reel could be incorporated with reel 10 if necessary as Jae Koo Hamlet is named after Jaegu Company and is defended by Tiger troops. sound may be bad & camera noise evident - impossible to muffle due to restricted space, &c. There is sound-piece on radio station. This could be incorporated with reel 11 of Jae Koo Namlet - named after Company - which the Tigers defend. First few shots of reel 11 are of troops relaxing with physical sport at Jaegu Company position - follows on from this reel. Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BINH DINH, SOUTH VIETNAM
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- Country: Vietnam
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