PARATROOPERS, WESEL AREA, GERMANY ; KO'D GERMAN CONVOY, NEAR BAD DURKHEIM, GERMANY ; PARATROOPERS IN C-46SS, WESEL AREA, GERMANY Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 3733 DC SOURCE: AFCF (M-1475-1477) Card 1 of 2 733-1 FILM: ARCH MP & APC MP Silent 665' ea PARATROOPERS Wesel Area, Germany 22 March 45 (LIB 4692) MSs, paratroopers being briefed by officers on airfield. MS, paratroopersmarch past line of C-46s. MS, paratroopers seated in C-46s. Pin-up girls in bg. AVs, paratroopers jumping. Sky filled with chutes. LS, formation of C-46s in flight. STORE KO'D GERMAN CONVOY Near Bad Durkheim, Germany 23 March 45 (LIB 4693) VS, destroyed German convoy of vehicles, tanks and horse-drawn wagons alongside of road. Vehicles passing between wreckage of convoy. CUs, various wrecked vehicles. MS, five German soldiers, walking toward wrecked convoy waving white flags, surrendering. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY MS/sj Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 Signal Corps 111 ADC ADC 3733 3733-2 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1475-1477) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH MP & APC MP Silent 665 ฿ ea PARATROOPERS INTO C-46s Wesel Area, Germany 24 March 1945 (LIB 4694) MSs, paratroopers moving up ramp and into C-46. MSs, C-46s taking off. MS, follow, C-46 starts t ake-off, suddenly swerves off runway, crashes into trucks near control tower. MS, crashed C-46 as other C-46s take-off in bg. LS, C-46s lined up on field. CU, windsock on pole. MCU, C-46 starts engine. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY MS/sj Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities