MEDAL PRESENTATION, ASSAM, INDIA ; 4TH ARMORED ADVANCE, ROAD TO WORMS, GERMANY Part 1

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Signal Corps 725-1 ADC 3725 SOURCE: AFCF Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 960' ea Silent MEDAL PRESENTATION Assam, India 9 Mar 45 (LR-62) Seq: Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of Southeast Asia presents medals to members of 5th Indian Div at their rest camp. LS, Lord Mountbatten troops line of Indian and British soldiers. CUs, individual British and native troops receiving awards. CUs, native bagpipe band plays at ceremony. (NOTE: There are some rubs in this portion of reel.) ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY EBS/sj Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 Signal Corps 111 ADC 3725 ADC SOURCE: AFCF Card 2 of 2 3725-2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 960' ea Silent LIB 4435 4TH ARMORED ADVANCE Road to Worms, Germany 20 Mar 45 (M-1475-1477) MSs, M-4 tanks, some carrying troops, move across open field and along road. MS, German prisoners are led from bldg to street. MS, tank, followed by infantrymen, moves thru street. Soldiers fire rifles. MSs, white flags hang from windows of houses, civilians line sidewalks. MSs, M-4 tank passes thru roadblock. MSs, CUs, long line of German prisoners is marched thru street. MSs, armored vehicles on road pass burning German vehicle and wrecked equipment. MSs, CUs, dead horse and dead driver alongside wagon on road. MSs, troop-laden M-4 tanks move thru town. CU, soldier fires rifle from top of tank. MS, soldier fires from behind parked jeep, truck with soldiers stands nearby. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY EBS/sj Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities