INVASION OF BIAK, ISLAND OFF WEST NEW GUINEA, LARGEST OF SCHOUTEN ISLANDS Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 1496 111 SOURCE: AFCF Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP, Silent 903 le ea 1496-1 INVASION OF BIAK, Island off West New Guinea, largest of Schouten Islands; 30 Nov 1944 (no captions) LSs, invasion craft under way in the distance. Flak bursts overhead. LA, mast and part of bridge on unidentified vessel. Aboard deck of vessel, a gun partly covered with canvas to the left; mountainous shore in bg. On the island an artillery piece in the distant bg fires. LS, few tents on beach. CU, rough sign; "MP CP Stockade". Japanese prisoners seated in stockade. CU, emaciated prisoner eating. An American officer talks to the prisoner. A prisoner speaks to the officer. Pan L to R, LVTs along beach; improvised tents set up between palm trees.' A few soldiers standing and in the distance some planes overhead. MCU, American soldier eating near a fire. He smiles at the camera. LS few soldiers around an open fire which is sending up a great deal of smoke. A soldier examines a disabled Japanese artillery piece. American Negro soldiers pass a destroyed Japanese gun. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY law Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV - 210 Signal Corps ADC 1496 111 SOURCE: AFCF Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP, Silent 903 ea 1496-2 INVASION OF BIAK Island off West New Guinea, largest of Schouten Islands; 30 Nov 1944 (no captions) (cont'd) MS, three Americans each with a week's growth of beard. One man is holding a black cat. The black cat walking on top of the barrel of a gun aboard ship. RV, AA gunner aboard ship as he looks twd smoke on the beach, turns, smiles. LS, shore photographed from a ship during sunset. IS, ravaged beach. Few LVTs move in the center of frame away from camera. Smoke from fires seen in the bg. A tractor pulls two-wheeled trailers and HOW (soft). MLS, 21/2 ton dukws and a tractor pulling a trailer and a HOW. A man is seated atop the gun. MLS, dukw moves away from camera and a soldier walks twd the camera at L. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY lzw Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV - 210

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities