AMERICAN PACK TRAIN ON MOUNTAIN TRAIL TO LUNGLING VALLEY, YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA, ON BURMA ROAD ; ADVANCE ON LUNGLING ; PM WINSTON CHURCHILL IN NORMANDY, FRANCE Part 3

Description

Signal Corps 111 ADC 1876 ADC SOURCE: AFCF Card 1 of 4 1876-1 FILM: Arch & APC, MP, 1022 ea AMERICAN PACK TRAIN ON MOUNTAIN TRAIL TO LUNGLING VALLEY, Yunnan Province, China, on Burma Road; July 1944 (C-016) vs, American mule pack team en route along mountain trail with supplies and ammunition. LS, MS, CU, the team resting. MS, two men dozing. Soldiers put packs on animals. NOTE: Animals look like small horses. There are fungus marks on film in some scenes. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/ek Signal Corps 111 ADC 1876 ADC 1876 SOURCE: AFCF Card 2 of 4 FILM: Arch & APC, MP, 1022' ea ADVANCE ON LUNGLING, 1944 Chinese soldiers take 75mm shells out of cases and place them on the ground. vs, Chinese firing 75mm pack HOW. The recoil is so forceful that the entire carriage is lifted off the ground. CU, Chinese soldier with fingers in his ears. CU, Chinese officer shouts command. MS, Chinese soldier on field phone. Two Chinese approach dead Japanese; they use their feet to turn the corpse over. Chinese look at dead Japanese in trench. Chinese look into foxhole and at an abandoned mortar. LS, countryside. Smoke supposedly from artillery fire in different places on the terrain. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/ek Signal Corps 111 ADC 1876 ADC 1876-3 SOURCE: AFCF Card 3 of 4 FILM: Arch & APC, MP, 1022¹ ea (INV 575) PM WINSTON CHURCHILL IN NORMANDY, FRANCE; 20 July 1944 (M-396) Churchill and party inspect rocket base in Normandy (only general views). Churchill shakes hands with a soldier and another man. MS, Churchill and US Gen John C H Lee in car. The PM, Gen Lee, Gen Sir Hastings Ismay step out of plane. Churchill gets into car, looks around. Ismay, Lee and others in a group looking at a map. Maj Gen Cecil Moore, Brig Gen Ewart Plank, Col Wyman and an officer who may be Adm John Wilke wait at an airport 6 km from Cherbourg. Cut-ins, Gen Moore and the other officers chatting as they await the arrival of the PM. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF / ek Signal Corps 111 ADC 1876 ADC 1876-4 SOURCE: AFCF Card 4 of 4 FILM: Arch & APC, MP, 1022' ea (INV 575) PM WINSTON CHURCHILL IN NORMANDY, FRANCE; - Cont'd 20 July 1944 (M-396) - Cont'd Seq: The PM and party inspect port installations as Gen Moore explains the various operations. MS, Gen Moore, Adm Wilke explain points of interest in the harbor. The PM, Moore and Wilke get in the car. The PM, Moore, Wilke, Gen Lee and others at a fortress point overlooking Cherbourg. The PM, Wilke and Moore in car. The PM seated in car shakes hands with a few French civilians. The inspecting party as Gen Moore talks. Record Group 111 Accession N mber III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/ek

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities