INVASION 213, GEN BERNARD L MONTGOMERY, NORMANDY, FRANCE ; INVASION #214, REPLACEMENT TROOPS LANDING ON THE COTENTIN PENINSULA, FRANCE ; INVASION #215, SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 1511 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-276) Card I. of 2 ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP, Silent, 705 ₽ ea 1511-1 INVASION #213, GEN BERNARD L MONTGOMERY, Normandy, France; 21 ,Tune 1944 Car arrives in the field. Gen Montgomery steps from the car and greets Maj Gen Charles Corlett, 19th Corps Commander. Also present is Maj Gen Charles H Gerhardt, Comd of the 29th Inf Div. Also greeted by Montgomery is Gen Leroy Watson, CG of the 3d Armored Div. Montgomery gets into his car after shaking hands with the officers. INVASION #214, REPLACEMENT TROOPS LANDING ON THE COTENTIN PENINSULA, FRANCE; 16 June TSS of Radly wrecked bldgs and church. T.A shot, wrecked steeple of the church. Devastated area with the fg covered with rubble. Cut-ins, wreckage, rubble and pillbox. American replacement troops marching on causeway from landing craft; discard life preservers. Troops walking along the beach. A Soldier to the right directs traffic. General scenes, beach area with one shot showing the replacement troops marching along a ponton causeway. An LCM loaded with replacements as it attempts to come along causeway. The LCM at an angle to the causeway as the tamp is lcwered. MS, a few troops debark. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/ek Record Group 111 Accession II-- NAV - 210 Signal Corps ADC 1511 111SOURCE: AFCF (M-276) Card 2 of 2 ADCFILM: Arch & APC MP, Silent, 705 ₽ ea 1511-2 INVASION #215, Somewhere in France, exact location unknown; 16 June 44 US tanks and other vehicles move thru the streets of a city. An American soldier at the curb wearing 101st Airborne Div patch. An American soldier outside a window as he confers with Capt about a map. They handle a German Luger and the soldier at the window brings a Nazi flag out and sets it on the sill. They are joined by a third soldier who holds a map in his hand. Three soldiers all appear to be officers. They sit on the curb and discuss map which one man holds. A fourth man looks on from the rear. 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