AMERICAN SERVICEWOMEN (WAC) ABOARD SHIP EN ROUTE FROM TARANTO, ITALY,TO PORT SAID, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN SEA Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 1491 111SOURCE AFCF (OD-1) ADCFILM: Arch & APC MP, Silent, 780' Ea 1491 AMERICAN SERVICEWOMEN (WAC) ABOARD SHIP EN ROUTE FROM TARANTO, ITALY TO PORT SAID, EGYPT Mediterranean Sea; June 1944 Two WACs playing cards with two British officers on deck. Other scenes of WACs sunning themselves. One WAC reads to a soldier, looks like an American, who has his head on her lap. Wacs relax on deck, talk to the different British servicemen aboard. Others stand at the rail of the vessel. Seq on deck. WACs are given a lecture and a demonstration by British Maj C Jarvis. The subject is on the various Indian troops traveling on the vessel. Indian troops step un singly or in groups according to nationality: Sikhs, Dogras, Punjab, Ratput, Jat, Mahratta, etc.. Int, stateroom. Two WACS reading in their bunks. MS, a pretty blond WAC in pajamas brushes her hair and climbs into upper berth. A WAC shampoos the head of another girl in stateroom. MCU, WAC in stateroom writes letter. Another girl hangs her clothes in closet, removes stockings from line and rolls them up. WACs in double file walk on deck twd and to R of camera. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/ek Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV - 210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities