Vehicles Loaded Aboard Landing Craft, Portland Head, England Part 3

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WORLD WAR, 1939-1945-AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS--FRANCE--NORMANDY ADC 1576 111 SOURCE: AFCF Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: Arch & APC MP, Silent, 891' ea 1576-1 B-481, VEHICLES LOADED ABOARD LANDING CRAFT, Portland Head, England; 2 June 1944 (M-211) MS, RV, two sailors; one with binoculars and no hat are observing something in the bg. US flag to left. Head-on view, half-track vehicle being loaded on landing barge. Soldiers and sailors on deck of landing barge look twd the camera. Three US soldiers clean weapons aboard landing craft at pier. On deck of landing craft as a truck is raised to the deck by elevator. HS, looking down to the ramp as trucks move onto the craft. High-speed tractors with soldiers atop pulls a heavy gun on the dock and boards LST. MLS, vehicles back into LST. Sailors and others are seated at bow of vessel watching the loading off-screen. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY Record Groupy 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 Signal Corps ADC 1576 111 SOURCE: AFCF Card 2 of 2 ADC-FILM: Arch & APC MP, Silent, 891' ea 1576-2 INV 245, 128th EVACUATION HOSPITAL, SURGERY, Somewhere in Frante; 20 June 1944 (M-281) Brief exterior of hospital tent with the doctor entering. Seq; inside of surgery tent. Doctors are operating on a head case and then on an abdominal case. (Insufficient light and not much is shown). INV 246, COMBAT CHAPLAIN, Near Cherbourg, France; 21 June 1944 (M-281) Exts, Chaplain Julian S. Ellenberg holds plasma bottle for medics at first aid station. The chaplain holds prayer services for first aid men of the 8th Inf Regt, 4th Inf Div. They are near a foxhole. The chaplain lights cigarettes for two wounded men one of whom has a bandage around his head. They are seated under a tree. CU, chaplain gives soldier a drink from a canteen cup. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY lzw Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV - 210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities