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    Page 76 EDGEWOOD - ITEM 34- RIGHT AND MOVES TO WITHIN 5 FEET OF WOODS, TRACKS RIGHT AND MOVES PAST FLAMING WOODS TOWARD ROAD.(200 YARDS BY 100 YARDS OF WOODS WILL BE SOAKED IN NAPALM. WILL IGNITE IN BURST OF FLAME AS FLAME- THROWER HITS THEM) CUT TO: LONGSHOT OF TANK SILHOUTTED AGAINST FLAMING WOODS, MOVING TOWARDS CAMERA AND ROAD. COMES INTO MS THEN CU. TANK HITS ROAD. TRACK RIGHT AND MOVES UP ROAD (SEARCHLIGHT BATTERY NO. 1 FURNISHING BACKLIGHT. SIX AUTOMATIC RIFLES?╜ FOUR 30cal. MACHINE GUNS TO NOW COMMENCE FIRING 5000 ROUNDS OF 30c al. BALL TRACER. BEGIN TO EX- PLODE THE 150 LARGE SIZE WHITE PHOSPHOROUS COMBAT INCENDIARY BOMBS, CUT EXPLOSIONS AS FOLLOWS: FIRE "P" BANK NO. 1 BOMBS OVER ABOVE SHOT) TANK IN LS MOVES UP THE ROAD WITH BOMBS FORMING A BURSTING WALL OF EXPLOSIONS IN BACK- GROUND. (FIRE "P" BANKS OF BOMBS NO. 2 TO 4 INCLUSIVE OVER THIS SHOT. STANDBY TO FIRE LANDMINES) BOMBS NO LONGER IN BACK- GROUND AS TANK IN LS MOVES ON UP THE ROAD. ZOOM IN FOR CU OF THE TANK. (SEARCHLIGHT BATTERY NO. & NOW STANDBY HERE, REPOSI- TION SEARCHLIGHT BATTERY NO. I) TANK IN CU MOVES PAST ASSAULT TRENCH. CAMERA STOPS ON THE TRENCH AND PULLS BACK TO LS, ARMY VOICE: (Cont*d) The United States Amy tests weapons here at Edgewood .??. under the nearest thing to combat conditions that we can create. Here we * ve taken a tank.,,and added 150 white phosphorus bombs... ... and we move on to a simu- lated battlefield location.