CROSSING THE PO RIVER, VERONA, ITALY Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 4117 111 SOURCE: AFCF (0-1151) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 1001' ea Silent 4117-1 CROSSING THE PO RIVER Verona, Italy 25-26 Apr 45 CUs, truck rolls on to ferry. Follow shots, ferry en route. MSs to CU, dukw loaded with soldiers and artillery pieces move from water to shore. MS, jeep and trailer come off raft. CU sign: "Isola Della Scala." RVs, vehicles pass roadblock in town. CU, partisan guard at roadblock. CUs, MSs, German prisoners are marched thru town. RVs, vehicles speed along highway past wrecked German equipment. MLS, M-4 tanks halted in field and orchard. Travel shot past large convoy of armored vehicles and soldiers lined up in street. MS, CU, tank column moves thru street raising clouds of dust. LS, street scene, white flags hanging from windows. CU, two wrecked US vehicles in street. CU, wrecked batch of five gallon cans. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC 4117 111 SOURCE: AFCF (0-1151) Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 1001' ea Silent 4117-2 CROSSING THE PO RIVER (Cont'd) Verona, Italy 25-26 Apr 45 (Cont'd) MSs, wreckage of equipment and some bodies strewn about street; civilians and soldiers look at them. CU, charred body in street. CU sign at RR tracks: "Verona." MSs, Gen Geoffrey Keyes in jeep crosses railroad tracks. VS, wrecked railroad yards, installation and station. VS, vehicles pass over first steel treadway ponton bridge across Po River. Record Group 111 Accession 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

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities