RUSSIAN DISPLACED PERSONS, BAUMHOLDER, GERMANY ; PATROL, FERCHLAND (?), GERMANY Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 4136 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M Codes) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 899 ea Silent 4136-1 LIB 6145 RUSSIAN DISPLACED PERSONS Baumholder, Germany 1 May 45 (M-1697-8) VS, US officers attend May Day celebrations at Russian Displaced Persons Center. Maj Gen Hugh J Gaffney, CG, XIII Corps, 15th US Army, addresses the gathering. VS, Russian civilians carry flags, banners and posters in parade. (Note: Also attending ceremony is Brig Gen J D Ballmer, Chief of Staff, XIII Corps and Brig Gen Doyle O Hickey, CG, 54th AAA Brigade.) Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC 4136 SOURCE: AFCF (M Codes) Card 2 of 2 111 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 899' ea Silent ADC 4136-2 LIB 6062 PATROL Ferchland (?) Germany 29 Apr 45 (M-1691) CUs, removal of wounded US officer from German bus. Seq: Wounded US soldiers are exchanged for German prisoners of war after having been captured by the German Army while engaged in a patrol action. CUs, MSs, German officers with interpreter speak to US officer. CUs, US Lt Col speaks on SCR 300, field telephone. (This officer may be Lt Col. Wohner mentioned below.) (Note: Co "C", 407th Inf, 102nd Div, Ninth US Army, crossed the Elbe River and proceeded eastward, but were surrounded by the Germans and were captured intact. Lt Col John H Wohner, CO, 2nd Bn, 407th Inf, negotiated for exchange of prisoners and possible surrender of the Germans.) 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

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities