CHRISTMAS, MAIL, CHERBOURG TO FRONT, CHERBOURG, FRANCE Part 1

Description

Signal Corps ADC 2646 DC SOURCE: AFCF (M-850, 851) 646 FILM: ARCH MP & APC MP, 841' ea Silent CHRISTMAS, MAIL, CHERBOURG TO FRONT Cherbourg, France 4-5 Nov 1944 (SPX-F, LIB 441-444) MS, LS, floating crane in harbor transfers mail bags from ship to barge. Night seq: Soldiers fighting fire from burning gasoline trailer. MSs, CUs, crane loading mail bags from barge to trucks. MS, German prisoners and American soldiers loading mail bags into freight train. CUs, French, German and American lettering on boxcar of freight train. CU, soldier crosses out German lettering and writes "USA" on side of car. MS, mail train manned by American soldiers pulls away from dock area. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY MS/lzw

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities