PROJECT 6100, GI LIFE IN PERSIA (IRAN) Part 3

Description

Signal Corps ADC 2630 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (P-10-H) 630 FILM: Arch & APC MP, 953' ea Silent PROJECT 6100 GI LIFE IN PERSIA (IRAN) Summer 1944 Seq: Passenger train pulls into Arak station. US soldiers leave train and line up for mess. VS, Persian civilians load furniture, rugs, baggage on mail train. (Russian, Iranian soldiers and civilians are seen in bg.) MCU, train passes camera; civilian and military peer from windows. Slow Pan from desert to station as train, motor convoy passes in bg. vs at Rahgerd station. Two engineers come out of shack and walk to barrels to wash mess gear. CU signs on mess shack: "All Military Personnel Will Furnish and Clean Their Own Mess Kits". "This Mess Operated for M.R.S. Personnel On Duty. No Other Personnel Will Be Served, Etc. 11 US soldiers play poker in shack, Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL 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