MT VESUVIUS ERUPTS, NAPLES, ITALY ; INSPECTION OF MEDICAL SERIVCES BY BRITISH MAJ GEN COWELL, ANSIO BEACHHEAD Part 1

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 1726 ADC SOURCE: NRP & BRITISH COMBAT FILMS Card 1 of 2 1725- FILM: ARCH DN & APC MP 629' ea MT VESUVIUS ERUPTS Naples, Italy Reviewed 8 May 1944 (NR 229) MCU, two soldiers exit from burned tent at airport. Pan, airport, tremendous amount of lava ash and dust settled on airstrip, B-25 planes on field scarred by lava. CU., burned plane in fg, bg dark with overhead smoke. MSs, bulldozers push lava ash off road. (Mt Vesuvius continues to belch in bg). Pan, destruction to bldgs of city. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERB/lzw Signal Corps ADC 1725 .11 SOURCE: NRP & BRITISH COMBAT FILMS Card 2 of 2 ADC SILM: ARCH DN & APC MP, 629' ea .725-2 INSPECTION OF MEDICAL SERVICES BY BRITISH MAJ GEN COWELL Ansio Beachhead (British Combat Film A663/1) 16 Feb 44 Various CUs, wqunded British soldier is given blood transfusion. CU, arm of British medic encircles wounded mar lifts him as another medic gives him water. MS, British medics jump into first aid station dugout. HS, first aid man gives wounded man injection. Seq; Maj Gen Ernest M Cowell and Brig Gen J Martin (British) and other officers inspect Anzio beachhead medical services. MS, soldiers load litter case into ambulance. MS, Lt Gen Jacob L Devers (US) speaks to correspondents at Nettuno airfield, then enters plane. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERB/lzw

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities