“U.S. ARMY PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS PACIFIC” 1964 VIETNAM WAR PSYOPS TRAINING FILM XD81525

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This 1964 US Army film looks at U.S. propaganda and psychological operations activities in the Asia-Pacific region. It begins by introducing the theater and the locations of different headquarters and centers for PsyOps. This is followed by different PsyOps including radio and TV broadcasting, and the printing of visual material like magazines, posters, and leaflets. Afterwards, the film highlights mobile PsyOps as well as support for combat troops. The film concludes with the support and training that the US gives to foreign military personnel, particularly in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and South Vietnam.

0:08 US Army Psychological Operations (Pacific, 1964), 0:17 a map of the areas under the US Pacific Command, 0:56 map highlights Psychological Operations Units in Okinawa including US Army Broadcasting and Visual Activity, 14th PsyWar Battalion Theater Army, and 18th PsyWar Company Advisory and Support, 1:42 list of other detachments in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and South Vietnam, 2:03 HQ of the PsyWar Operations in Okinawa, 3:44 soldiers working in a broadcasting center in Okinawa, 5:00 teletypes receiving daily news, 5:26 different civilian and military staff working on programming, 5:58 a program being recorded in a studio, 6:52 soldier monitoring enemy broadcasts, 7:15 a powerful radio transmitter located on Ganghwa Island, South Korea, 7:49 soldiers operating the transmitters, 8:03 a radio interview being taped directly in a Korean home, 8:45 an employee making TV interviews in the street, 9:01 a defector from North Korea being interrogated, 9:23 a Taiwanese military radio station, 10:05 a radio drama being recorded, 10:23 US and Taiwanese military personnel going over broadcasting scripts, 11:09 two men looking at a magazine prepared in Korea, 12:15 a large shipment of magazines arrives and they are distributed by girl and boy scouts, 13:27 aerial footage of Korea, 14:02 US army doctors treating people on a remote island, 14:22 the Busan Fish Market Center, 14:38 a man raising pheasants, 14:50 the World Vision Korea Orphan Choir, 15:08 distribution center of the Okinawa magazine printing section, 15:38 the magazine being distributed and read by people, 16:19 Camp Drake, Tokyo, 16:37 production of a magazine for the Japanese market, 17:27 the final editing of all magazines distributed in the Pacific including articles and diagrams, 18:51 Magazines being printed at the US Army Printing, Publications, and Records Center in Kawasaki, 19:35 posters and leaflets being printed in Okinawa, 20:21 women reading a news poster, 20:30 a propaganda leaflet being prepared for the US war in Vietnam, 21:00 propaganda booklets being prepared and loaded onto planes, 21:24 US and foreign military personnel being trained on how to integrate PsyWar strategies into their combat operations, 22:37 leaflets being dropped over an enemy position, 22:48 mobile radio equipment being put into place, 23:25 planning for future operations, 23:38 courses in psychological operations for foreign military personnel, 24:05 a mobile operational unit for PsyOps in insurgencies, 24:38 a mobile audio-visual unit, 24:50 meeting between US and Taiwanese military personnel, 25:30 a balloon launching operation in Taiwan, 25:57 US PsyOps staff providing assistance to South Vietnamese in broadcasting, printing, and propaganda analysis, 26:55 Vietnamese PsyWar school in Saigon, 27:45 summary footage of what has been seen so far, 28:51 “The End”

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