LANDINGS ON FLUSHING, WALCHEREN ISLAND, HOLLAND Part 1

Description

Signal Corps ADC 3456 DC 456 SOURCE: AFCF (M-845-846 BR 109) FILM: Arch Dupe & APC MP, 534' ea LANDINGS ON FLUSHING, WALCHEREN ISLAND Holland; Date on caption 1 Nov 1944 MLS, British Royal Marines in landing craft en route to Walcheren Island. VS, men and equipment aboard landing craft. VS, LS, convoy of landing craft. MCUs, British marines cleaning rifles and loading cartridge clips. ELS, MS, ship firing rockets and hits on island. LS, plane dive bombing and hits on island. MLS, enemy artillery hits near landing craft. Record Group 111 LS, smoke on beach. Accession Number III-NAV-210 MS, near hit on landing craft. MCUs, men climb into LVTs on board landing craft. MCUs, landing craft coming into beach and LVTs going ashore. LS, fires in village. MS, CU, troops coming ashore. MS, British marines run past burning building in Flushing street. MS, German prisoners and their wounded moving past. MS, German prisoner acting as litter bearer with three British marines. MS, German salvaging material, look like blankets, from water. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY MS/sj

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities