Big Picture: U.S. Army in the Andes

Big Picture: U.S. Army in the Andes - National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 2569871 / Local Identifier 111-TV-686 - 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). This film deals with the benefits that were received by Bolivia and Peru from the Military Assistance Program. Scenes show the local U.S. Army mission as they delivered textbooks in La Paz, boats reconditioned with U.S. monies transporting Bolivian and U.S. Military Assistance Mission medical personnel to hard-to-reach areas, and a course in U.S. Army counterinsurgency techniques that was taught to Bolivian officers and soldiers. Included also are scenes in Peru, with Mission representatives as they assisted local officers with surveying technology, aerial photography, and other important aspects of cartography. DVD copied by IASL Master Scanner Timothy Vollmer.