INVASION OF BIAK, SCHOUTEN ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS, NEW GUINEA Part 2

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 1897 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (4A-150) 1897 FILM: Arch APC & MP, 663' ea Silent INVASION OF BLAK, SCHOUTEN ISLANDS, NETHERLANDS NEW GUINEA, 6 July 1944 LS, natives in a fleet of canoes travel along shoreline of Sorido. Soldiers, 34th Inf, 24th Div, are given doughnuts and chewing gum by Red Cross field director. Red Cross clubmobile truck moves twd and R of camera. Additional views of the canoe fleet returning to the island since villages were freed by the Americans. Int of QM bakery tent as doughnuts are made. Doughnuts are loaded into Red Cross clubmobile. Soldiers of the 34th get doughnuts at Sorido village. MS, CUs, smiling men eat. LS, a line of P-38 fighter planes on Mokmer Airfield. MS, two young Japanese prisoners. Two American soldiers stand guard over them. Record Group 111 VS, entrance to caves. AccessionNumber III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY NF/1zw

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities