Mechanized Mine Layer
Mechanized Mine Layer
Clip: 355143_1_1
Year Shot: 1957
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1639
Original Film: 030-082-04
HD: N/A
Location: Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Timecode: 00:23:09 - 00:23:56
Tape is damaged. There are some large video drop out lines in some of the frames Army engineers show new automatic minelaying equipment, which digs a divot, plants the explosive, and neatly replaces the earth. Soldier and an Army jeep. CUS - A mchanical hole digger digging a hole and a soldier laying a land mine in it. CUS - A huge bull dozer with a divit digger on the end. CUS - Soldiers assembling land mines. CUS - The mines being carried away by a flat bed truck. MCUS - The container with the land mines are put on to the bull dozer and the bull dozer plants and covers up the planted land mines.