AMERICAN-JAPANESE TROOPS, MEURTHE MOSELLE, FRANCE Part 1

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Signal Corps 11 ADC 3423 DC SOURCE: AFCF (NRP) Card 1 of 3 423-1 FILM: Arch DN & APC MP, 1,001', Silent AMERICAN-JAPANESE TROOPS Meurthe Moselle, France; 30, 31 Oct 1944 (B=939) No Captions American officers interrogate and search German prisoners. The Japanese-Americans help with the procedure. Prisoners hand American officers documents and papers. Several scenes, American-Japanese infantrymen advance carefully thru woods. CU, soldier uses handie-talkie. Japanese-Americans searching German prisoners. Pan from dead German to another dead German. Soldiers follow German prisoners thru woods. A litter is carried by soldiers. An M-4 tank moves out. Several CUs of Japanese-Americans in foxholes. AVs over the Vosges area and over "La Colline de lat Hutte." AVs, where the 141st Inf Regt of the 26th "Texas" Div held out for nine days. Medics arrive with litter case on jeep. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY NF/sj Signal Corps 11 ADC 3423 DC SOURCE: AFCF (NRP) Card 2 of 3 423-2 FILM: Arch DN & APC MP, 1,001', Silent AMERICAN-JAPANESE TROOPS (Cont'd) Meurthe Moselle, France; 30, 31 Oct 1944 (Cont'd) (B-939) No Captions MS, other wounded being brought in. MS, dead German soldiers. Japanese-American troops taking cover on the ground near trees. CU, soldiers on the alert. MS, Japanese-American team fires 30 cal air-cooled MG. in woods. Infantrymen on the alert at trees. Pan showing a soldier bringing in a German prisoner. German prisoner is searched by a soldier as other Americans, not Japanese, look on. CU, officer speaking into field phone Record Group 111 A few riflemen advance thru the woods. Accession Number III-NAV-210 CU, dead German with mutilated face. Soldiers of the 1st Bn in a group walk twd C in the woods. The men look tired; some have several days growth of beard. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY NF/sj Signal Corps 111 ADC 3423 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (NRP) Card 3 of 3 3423-3 FILM: Arch DN & APC MP, 1,001', Silent AMERICAN-JAPANESE TROOPS (Cont'd) Meurthe Moselle, France; 30, 31 Oct 1944 (Cont'd) (B-939) No Captions CU, a soldier gives a light from a cigarette to another soldier. CU, tired soldiers eating. Soldier smiles. VS, boxes marked* "Wound Tablets" are wrapped in burlap and then put into artillery shell cases. MS, two soldiers; one serves something in a canteen and drinks it. A wounded man on a litter chews gum as he is carried by medics. MS, tired soldiers resting. VS, 105mm HOW with a camouflage net over it is fired. These shells may contain the "Wound Tablets" shown above. CUs, hands of soldiers wrap "Wound Tablets" boxes in burlap. * Wound tablets are some kind of medical supplies. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY NF/sj

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities