October 2005 After soldiers of a US 173rd Airborne company burn the bodies of two Taliban killed near the Pakistan border, members of the army's psychological warfare unit then broadcast an inflammatory message designed to taunt and bait the enemy. US soldiers in Afghanistan have taken the tactics of psychological warfare to a grotesque extreme. After soldiers of a US 173rd Airborne company burn the bodies of two Taliban killed near the Pakistan border in a desecration of Muslim burial rituals, members of the army's psychological warfare unit then broadcast an inflammatory message designed to taunt and bait the enemy. A translation offered on camera by Sergeant Jim Baker of "PsyOps" reads: "Attention Taliban. You are all cowardly dogs. You allowed your fighters to be burned. This just proves you are the ladyboys we always believed you to be." In recent months, the Taliban have launched more attacks that at any time since the invasion. Faced with such a resurgence, the Americans are resorting to psychological warfare to demoralise the enemy. Armored vehicles loaded with loudspeakers blast loud, offensive music into the valleys. But such tactics may also heighten the perception of local people that the Americans are as barbarous as the Taliban. Produced by SBS/Dateline Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
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D-Day To Germany Rare Color Movies of Normandy Invasion WWII
In 1944 Jack H. Lieb, was one of several journalists who followed the Allied advance across Europe after the Normandy invasion. Working for the newsreel News of the Day, he also shot silent COLOR footage of the Landing on Utah Beach and the Liberation of Paris with his own 16mm hand held camera. He was also my Grandfather! By this time in his career his work as a Newsreel Cameraman already included Charles Lindbergh's daring flight to Paris in 1927, the Revolution in Nicaragua, the Great Ohio and Mississippi floods of 1937 plus two and a half years covering South, East and Central Africa in the early 1930's. Take a journey with Jack Lieb from London, across the English Channel to the beaches of Normandy then onwards into Paris on the day of Liberation. Mr. Lieb's commentary in his own voice and these rare color films (which are now both contained in National Archives holdings), create a unique, personal recollection of that momentous time. Included is additional rare footage of the pre-invasion gathering of troops and preparations; plus personalities such as Ernie Pyle, Edward G. Robinson, Ernest Hemingway and (then General) Dwight D. Eisenhower, as well as the massive celebrations after the liberation of Paris leading towards the end of World War II! 46 Minutes. Color & Black & White. NOT RATED/WILL PLAY ALL REGIONS. Visit www.THCOnline.com for more information. Transportation Hobby Collectibles Online. © 2009 Robert Neal Marshall. All Rights Reserved.
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Raw Footage: Vietnam, 1968: Tet Offensive and Siege at Khe Sanh
In 1968, US forces in Vietnam were faced with their biggest battles yet: On January 31,1968, Viet Cong and NVA forces violated the Tet cease-fire and launched the Tet Offensive all across South Vietnam. US Army and Marines plus ARVN units, fought 80,000 enemy in bloody battles as they attacked over 100 cities including every provincial capital, and Saigon itself. US and ARVN forces repelled the More.. communists in weeks, after inflicting very heavy losses on VC/NVA forces. Simultaneously the NVA surrounded the US Marine base and airfield at Khe Sanh. NVA artillery, rockets, and mortar fire were placed on Khe Sanh with the intention of inflicting another Dien Bien Phu on the Americans. Instead President Johnson ordered "Operation Niagara", one of the heaviest air bombing campaigns in history, in order to destroy the enemy and keep the base in American hands.
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