CONSTRUCTION OF LEDO ROAD, MAMPIN, BETWEEN WARAZUP AND NAMTI, BURMA Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 1687 111 SOURCE: AFCF (C-176) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH, APC & MP, 760' ea Silent 1687-1 CONSTRUCTION OF LEDO ROAD Mampin, between Warazup & Namti, Burma; 16 December 1944 MS, Burmese, mostly children seated on the ground. Pan L/R, bulldozer driving in clearing. LS, field; mountain in bg. Brahma cattle grazing in field. A man and woman cut grain. Tilt-down to dense jungle terrain. A team of the 985th Engr Aviation Bn surveys an area. Few men use machetes to clear path in the jungle. A bulldozer at work. Men of surveying party hacking away at the brush with machetes and axes. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY NF/lzw Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 Signal Corps ADC 1687 111 SOURCE: AFCF (C-176) Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH, APC & MP, 760' ea Silent 1687-2 CONSTRUCTION OF LEDO ROAD (contd) Mampin, between Warazup & Namti, Burma; 23 November 1944 MS, bulldozer in operation. LS of cleared area thru the jungle MS, bulldozer pushing dirt L/Rand a front view of the same. A bulldozer pushing thru the dense growth is bogged down for a moment then continues on. (underexposed in spots). A truck pulling fuel trailer with Negro soldiers riding the truck. Indian laborers moving logs. (underexposed). Two Chinese; one chipping bark off a log. LS, completed corduroy bridge over stream. A grader in operation. A jeep driven by an American captain speeds thru a road in Namti village. Two children watch from the left and a dog crosses the road as the jeep approaches. Chinese of 10th Engrs working on a corduroy strip. Record Group 111 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave LIC 1, NY NF/1zw Accession Number 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