CROSSING THE PO RIVER, ITALY ; AIR STRIKE ON TOWN OF SULAC, BATANGAS PROVINCE, LUZON, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Part 2

Description

Signal Corps 111 ADC 4094-1 ADC 4094 SOURCE: AFCF Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 806' ea Silent CROSSING THE PO RIVER Italy 25 Apr 45 (0-1150) LHSs, completed bridge; soldiers standing on steel treadways of bridge. vs, engineers adjust center treadways and prepare rubber patch to place on punctured ponton. (Action incomplete.) Head-on shot, vehicles and infantrymen crossing bridge. Head-on shot, Gen Willis D Crittenberger, Gen George P Hays and Gem William C Crane cross bridge in jeep. LSs, Gen Crittenberger shakes hands with Gen Hays. LHSs, 86th Inf Regt, 10th Mountain Div, in vehicles cross bridge. Record Group 111 Accession Number I II-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps 111 ADC 4094-2 ADC 4094 SOURCE: AFCF Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 806' ea Silent AIR STRIKE ON TOWN OF SULAC Batangas Province Luzon, PI 12 Apr 45 (A-278) Excellent scenes photographed from escape hatch of attacking plane: para fragmentation bombs are dropped on mountainous terrain. Double-chuted bombs are visible descending earthward. Explosions from bombs are visible. Low level views as plane speeds over terrain. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities