SUBMARINE CABLE, RHINE RIVER, NEAR XNATEN, GERMANY Part 3

Description

Signal Corps ADC 3755 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1484-1486) 755 FILM: ARCH MP & APC MP, 860' ea Silent SUBMARINE CABLE Rhine River, near Xanten, Germany 24 March 1945 (LIB 4629) Seq: 54th Bn Signal Corps men and British Dukw drivers install submarine telephone cable system across Rhine River. VS, soldiers install test panel in dugout. MS, CU, soldier speaks over walkie-talkie. MS, CU, soldiers placing sandbags around dugout. VS, soldiers rolling out cable. LSs, squadron of C-47s towing gliders, passing over Rhine River. VS, British Dukw laying cable as it moves across Rhine River. American Engineers are aboard the Dukw. Record Group 111 CU, officer on Dukw talking in walkie-talkie. Accession Number III-NAV-210 CU, British soldier at helm of Dukw. CU, American flag armband being pinned on soldier. VS, equipment being unloaded onto river bank. Seq: Engineers using mine detectors checking for and locating mines on river bank. 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