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Big Picture: Far East Military Assistance Advisory Groups (MAAGs)
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National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 2569668 / Local Identifier 111-TV-400 Big Picture: Far East Military Assistance Advisory Groups (MAAGs) DVD Copied by Katie Filbert - Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). Eight countries in Far East covered on film for "THE BIG PICTURE" series -- THE BIG PICTURE camera under the supervision of veteran combat cameraman, Captain Gaetano Faillace, travels to the Far East to record for television the story of those colorful and exotic countries. The film is a record of how they and the United States have been strengthened by the work of U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Groups stationed there. The military aid to the nations of the Far East is one of the most effective defenses the free world has against Communist aggression in that most vital area. Included among the countries visited are Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. Nowhere is the will and the strength to resist more vital to this country than in the Far East, some of which is already heavily scarred by Communist…
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