INVASION 280, CITY BEING SHELLED; VISIT BY CG; FT DU ROULE, OUTSKIRTS CHERBOURG, FRANCE ; INVASION #281, CHERBOURG, FRANCE ; INVASION #282 Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 1508 111 SOUTCE ÁFC (M-292 & 293) Card I of 2 ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP, Silent, 780 ea 1508-1 INVASION #280, City being shelled; visit by CG; Ft du Roule, Outskirts Cherbourg, France; 26 June 1944 HSs, overlooking the city showing smoke in the distant bg (hazy). Deserted trench. An American Col explaining the campaign to Gen L T Wyche, 79th Div Commander. The Gen looking over the area. (Captions list him as a Lt Gen; he wears two stars on his helmet.) Views of Ft du Roule which serves as the German fortifications here. MLS, American soldiers in trench looking at the camera, some smile. HSs, German prisoners being assembled in a field. MS, German prisoners - these men look like officers. Some civilians in the lineup. (Captions say they are Russian prisoners brought to France by the Germans to do enforced labor.) An American soldier questions a civilian. Group shots of German prisoners smoking. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/ek Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV - 210 Signal Corps ADC 1508 111500 AFCF (M-292 & 293) Card 2 of 2 ADCFILM: Arch & APC MP, Silent, 780' ea 1508-2 INVASION #281 Cherbourg, France; 26 June 1944 Soldier, unidentified, seated in doorway; appears to be dead. Americans of the 79th Div in a group; one man plays an accordion. American soldiers watch as German prisoners with their hands on their heads march thru street. IS, several deserted streets during the rain. LS, three American soldiers cautiously approach the entrance of a house and enter on the lookout for snipers. HLS of the area; smoke moving up from burning harbor. An American soldier walks past a tank gun which is set up on street corner. INVASION #282 American soldiers of the 14th Inf Div search Nazi prisoners. CU, some of the Germans. MS, two Americans look at papers which were handed to them by civilians also in the prisoner lineup. An American soldier passes a dead German sprawled on the street. German prisoners being marched thru the street. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/ek 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