ASSIGNMENT HOME Part 1

Description

Summary: LS, Officer announcing to men that they are going home, Men cheer. Seq: Soldiers are screened and receive physical checkups. Equipment is placed aboard trucks and tents are pulled down. Convoy of trucks carrying men to last staging area travels along highway. Seq: Men carrying barracks bags aboard transport. GEN H H ARNOLD VISITS MARIANAS: SAIPAN.: 06/12/1945. MSs, the general's plane taxis on runway. Gen Arnold leaves plane. MS, Gen Arnold speaks to two unidentified officers. The general presents meritorious awards to members of a B-29 bomb wing. BOMB DAMAGE, PILSEN.: Czechoslovakia: 1945. AVs, bombed marshalling yards and Skoda armament works. BORNEO BOMBING KENINGAU.: 06/21/1945. B-25 in low level bombing and strafing attack. Shot from under side of plane, bombs dropping from low altitude.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities