PHILIPPINE OPERATIONS, LEYTE, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 3075 111 SOURCE: AFCF (A-174) Card 1. of 2 ADC 3075-1 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 948' ea Silent PHILIPPINE OPERATIONS Leyte Philippine Islands 20 Oct 44 LS, cruisers fire shoreward. CUs inside landing craft, soldiers crouched, prepare for debarkation. Low angle shot, motor carriages with surfizing equipment move inland. CUs, soldier digs foxhole with helmet. Tr cops of 3rd Bn climb down nets into landing craft for assault on Red Beach. MCUs, soldiers of Team 15, Co I, 3rd Bn, 34th Regt, 24th Div in LCVP under way. Rear views, troops unload from landing craft and make their way thru dense jungle. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERB/es Signal Corps ADC 3075 111 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (A-174) Card 2 of 2 3075-2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 948' ea Silent PHILIPPINE OPERATIONS (Cont'd) Leyte Philippine Islands 20 Oct 44 MCU, radio operator (Handie-talkie) crouched alongside of rifleman on edge of Red Beach. MLS, LST unloads bulldozers; bulldozers move thru surf onto beach. MLSs, troops dug in along edge of beach, held down by Japanese fire. In bg two medics carry litter with wounded soldier. Seq: Jeep, towing artillery piece stuck in deep water. Bulldozer pulls jeep to beach. Record Group 111 CU, body of dead Japanese soldier floats in water. Accession Number III-NAV-210 Rear views, 30 cal MG crew of M Co firing on Japanese in native house. Assault troops of 2nd Bn, 34th Inf wade thru waist deep swamps in their advance. CUs, soldiers in waist-high water; jungle terrain in bg. Excellent scenes, troops move cautiously thru jungle. vs. members of 101st Graves Registration Platoon prepares bodies of US soldiers killed on Red Beach. Soldiers dig graves in bg in partially cleared area. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERB/es

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities