MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM, PALMERO, SICILY ; BRAZILIAN TROOPS DEBARK AT NAPLES, ITALY Part 1

Description

Signal Corps 111 ADC ADC 1877 1877-1 SOURCE: AFCF Card 1 of 2. FILM: Arch & APC, MP, 976' ea Silent MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM, Palermo, Sicily; 13 May 1944 (0-146) HSs, American military band and American troops on parade on the Via Roma. Ground views of the parade passing the reviewing officers on the steps of the Postal Telegraph bldg. Tanks and half-tracks on parade. American soldiers march into US military cemetery #4; rows of graves with crosses in fg. A soldier fires rifle salute. Naval officer and American Army officers place wreath at base of flagpole. MS, two buglers; flag in bg. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, LIC 1, NY NF/ek Signal Corps 111 ADC 1877 ADC SOURCE: AFCF Card 2 of 2 1877 FILM: Arch & APC, MP, 976' ea Silent BRAZILIAN TROOPS DEBARK AT NAPLES, ITALY; 16 June 1944 (0-910) MLS, dock rope tightening as ship pulls twd dock. MS, few men on pier wave to the vessel. HS, troopship tied to open pier. MS, full screen, smiling soldiers on deck. MS, sober-faced Brazilian soldiers. Other group shots of Brazilians. L/R, Div Comd Braz Inf aboard, Maj Gen J B Mascarenhas De Moraes; Comd Officer Combat Team #2, Brig Gen E Z Da Costa; Braz Naval Liaison Officer, Comd Raul Reis. Lt Gen Jacob L Devers shakes hands with Gen Mascarenhas. Lt Gen Devers and Gen Mascarenhas walking on deck of ship thru crowd of soldiers. Troops carrying barracks bags come down gangway. (Some of this has lost loop.) Cut-ins, several American soldiers talking to Brazilians on pier. Addtl scenes, troops coming off ship. Record Group 111 Accession Number 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