WESTWARD IS BATAAN" (INVASION OF BIAK), SCHOUTEN ISLANDS, OFF NETHERALNDS, NEW GUINEA Part 1

Description

Signal Corps ADC 3562 SOURCE: AFCF (Proj 3808) Card 1 of 2 562-1 FILM: ARCH MP & APC MP, Silent, 914' ea "WESTWARD IS BATTAAN" (INVASION OF BIAK) Schouten Islands, off Netherlands New Guinea 30, 31 May 1944 LS, convoy of LSTs at sea. MSs, deck of LST crowded with equipment. LS, aboard destroyer as guns are fired. MS, two officers, backs to camera, scan shoreline with binoculars. MS, steamroller and bulldozer, pulling heavy trailer, coming ashore from LST over ponton pier. LS, large number LVTs heading for shore as an L-4 plane flies overhead. MS, soldier firing 40mm Bofors gun emplaced on beach. LS, A-20s flying over water. LS, pile of boxes stacked on ground; smoke from shell hit in bg. VS, shoreline from PT boat cruising offshore; men on deck. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY MS/es 301 Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-21Q Signal Corps ADC 3562 DC SOURCE: AFCF (Proj 3808) Card 2 of 2 562-2 FILM: ARCH MP & APC MP, Silent, 914' ea "WESTWARD IS BATTAAN" (INVASION OF BIAK) (Cont'd) Schouten Islands, off Netherlands New Guinea 30, 31 May 1944 (Cont'd) LSs, 90mm AA gun firing. MSs, crew firing 105mm HOW on beach. LS, huge cloud of smoke from shell hit. MSs, wrecked Japanese artillery piece on beach. MSs, Negro soldiers unloading gasoline drums from LSM. MS, lineman strings wire on coconut tree. MS, wrecked bamboo hut. MS, tractor pulling Japanese truck along dirt road. LS, LVT moves over rough beach terrain as LST moves twd shore in bg. LS, long line of infantrymen walking along beach road. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY MS/es

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities