"WESTWARD IS BATAAN", INVASION OF HOLLANDIA, NEW GUINEA Part 1

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 2882 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (Project 3808) Card 1 of 2 2882-1 FILM: Arch & APC MP, 916' ea Silent "WESTWARD IS BATAAN" INVASION OF HOLLANDIA, NEW GUINEA, Apr 44 CU, Japanese prisoner, smiles, talks and shows scarred hands to cameraman. LS, few soldiers walk by camera; wrecked Zero in bg. CU, soldier marks map with pencil. MSs, captured Shelbans (Natives) one man; two women and four children pose for camera. LSs, MSs, single B-25 flies low over Cyclops airstrip. Seq: Soldiers of US 186th Inf on chow line. One eats, others wash mess kits. MSs, CUs, Major Gen Horace H Fuller, CO 41st Div at fwd CP looks over map. MSs, LVTs in group on beach. Soldiers sit and talk atop same. LSs, MSs, bulldozer clears road that was dynamited; soldiers in bg. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE, ЦС1, NY ERB/ek Signal Corps 111 ADC 2882 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (Project 3808) Card 2 of 2 2882-2 FILM: Arch & APC MP, 916' ea Silent "WESTWARD IS BATAAN" - CONT'D INVASION OF HOLLANDIA, NEW GUINEA - CONT'D Apr 1944 - Cont'd Pan of shore shows landing craft in water. LS, shore from water. Huge clouds of smoke from exploding Japanese ammo dump. MS, soldier at portable switchboard in field. CU, silhouette of two helmeted soldiers looking skyward. Pan, soldiers of the 186th Inf, 41st Div dig foxholes on "Pancake Hill. " LS, natives paddle canoes along shoreline. 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