CANADIAN TROOPS, ORTONA, ITALY Part 1

Description

Signal Corps 111 ADC 1843 ADC SOUR CE: (Canadian Film Board) Card 1 of 2 1843-1 FILM: Arch, DN & APC MP, 877' ea Silent CANADIAN TROOPS Ortona, Italy; 22 Nov 44 Seq: German prisoners eating canned rations. Many are extremely youthful. Several in tattered uniforms. Others attempt to clean spots from their soiled uniforms. CUs, dead Germans in foxholes; German pamphlets scattered around them. CUs, mail call in the field. CUs, packages and airgraph letters to soldiers. Seq: Mule pack teams file up and down hills; Bren carriers in field. CU sign: "Inri" on cross, ruined city in bg. CU, radioman broadcasts on CBC mike. CUs, wrecked German panzer tanks, Canadian infantrymen file by. L-4 planes fly over bombed area. CUs, infantrymen move up along dirt road. CUs, mules loaded with packs follow infantrymen. Record Group 111 CU, civilian directs sappers to mine field. Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY ERB/ek Signal Corps 111 ADC 1843 ADC SOURCE: (Canadian Film Board) Card 2 of 2 1843-2 FILM: Arch, DN & APC MP, 877' ea Silent CANADIAN TROOPS - - CONT'D Ortona, Italy; 22 Nov 44 - Cont'd CUs, engineers using mine detectors. CU sign: "Mines, Keep Out." CUs, soldier lays cone-like device over covered mine. CUs, digging mine out of ground. LS, detonation of mine. Seq: Canadian troops load and fire 81mm mortars. CUs, wrecked German tanks on road. MSs, smoking and wrecked buildings as a result of shell explosions. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTOR AL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY ERB/ek

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities