INVASION 225, TROOP MOVEMENT, NEAR CHERBOURG, FRANCE ; INVASION #226, CLEANING UP VALOGNES, NORMANDY, FRANCE ; INVASION #227 ; INVASION #228, REPAIRS BY FRENCH AND AMERICANS, LISON RR STATION, FRANCE Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 1513 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-282) Card 1 of 3 ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP, Silent, 894' 1513-1 INVASION #225, TROOP MOVEMENT, near Cherbourg, France; 20 June 1944 American troops of the 4th Inf Div march on both sides of the road in single columns. MS, American soldiers drinking cider given to them by French peasants. Soldier hands back glass and nods his head in thanks. Soldiers pass sign indicating the direction to Cherbourg and another town. Half-track pulling a 57mm anti-tank gun moving past several directional signs, St Pierre-Eglise, etc. A few jeeps with troops follow. Group of French children, mostly girls, and a man at side of road as they wave to Americans in a half-track which is pulling an artillery piece. (This was shot at about 48 frames a second.) MS, soldiers finish drinking cider. CU, soldier drinks, hands back glass and indicates thanks with wave of his hand. Cut-ins, Americans drinking cider. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY lzw Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV - 210 Signal Corps ADC 1513 111 SOURCE: AFCF (1-262) Card 2 of 3 ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP, Silent, 894' 1513-2 INVASION #226, CLEANING UP VALOGNES, Normandy: France; 21 June 1944 Power shovel and bulldozer clearing away rubble and debris in badly damaged area. LS, blowing up the remains of a medieval church by the 294th Engineers Bn, First Army. CU, hand turning handle of detonator. Bucket of a power shovel scooping up debris, dumping it. LS, standing tower of the damaged church being blown up. (Very good) INVASION #227 Another very good shot of the remainder of the church being blown up. Several soldiers walk away from rubble. Soldiers standing in the rubble. Angle shot of the badly damaged church. MLS, bulldozer moves in to clear rubble; three soldiers stand in fg. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY lzw Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV -210 Signal Corps ADC 1513 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-282) Card 3 of 3 ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP, Silent, 894' 1513-3 INVASION #228, REPAIRS BY FRENCH AND AMERICANS, Lison RR Station, France; 20 June 1944 Locomotive moving twd and R of camera. Shots made from atop the moving locomotive showing the yards. CU, engine wheels turning as the engine moves past. Shots made from the locomotive showing railroad cars and tracks in the yard. French civilians and American soldiers help to repair tracks. An American cuts a rail with a torch. The men tighten bolts on the fish plate of repaired track as a train starts a trial run. Damaged locomotives and other rolling stock. HS, yard showing considerable damage. Two civilians starting to salvage different parts from a pile of wreckage. Various cut-ins of the damage. Soldiers carrying pieces of salvaged material past gutted RR cars. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY lzw Record Group lil Accession III - NAV - 210

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities