HANDLING JAPANESE PRISONERS, HOLLANDIA, NEW GUINEA Part 1

Description

Signal Corps ADC 1380 111 SOURCE: AFCF (1-A-150) ADC FILM: Archives & APC MP, Silent, 977 ea. 1380 HANDLING JAPANESE PRISONERS... HOLLANDIA, NEW GUINEA 6 June 1944 MS, CU, Lt Gen R L Eichelberger, Brig Gen C E Byers (US) and Lt Gen T I Van Oyen (Dutch). MS, prisoners are unloaded from small boat. CU, dead Japanese soldiers in trenches. MS, soldier fires MG at native hut. LS, pigeons in flight. MS, soldier removes carrier pigeon from crate, fastens message to leg and releases bird. MS, combat patrol searches village for Japanese soldiers. MS, natives carry wounded soldier on litter over dense jungle trail, across stream and thru muddy area; US soldiers follow. MS, Japanese prisoners remove their clothes. They bathe in the ocean. Clothes are burned and POWs are issued new clothing. (Prisoners appear exceptionally emaciated and starved) MS, prisoners in stockade scrub cots. CU, prisoners eat meal. US soldiers use mine detector in thick underbursh near Hoskins Airport. CU. parts of detector. MS, CU , buried 20001b bomb is found and blown up. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1. NY ERB/ke Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV - 210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities