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PRACTICE LANDINGS ON GREAT SITKIN ISLAND, ALEUTIANS ; ADMIRAL KINKAID'S HQ Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 429 111 SOURCE: AFCF (ATF #9 R1 95) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM : Archives & APC MP, 729 ea, Silent 429-1 PRACTICE LANDINGS ON GREAT SITKIN ISLAND, ALEUTIANS No Captions, No Date LS, transport ships anchored in bay; mountains in bg. MS (L-R) Brig Gen Joseph Ready; Maj Gen Charles H Corlett, CO, ATF #9; Brig Gen James W Barnett; Col Roy V Richard, CO, 87th Mt Infantry. IS, ships; mountain of Great Sitkin in bg. LS, landing crafts moving from ships to shoreline. VS, troops moving off landing craft into water. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERB/amf Record Group 111 Accession III NAV - 210 Signal Corps ADC 429 111 S PCE: AFCF (ATF #9 R1 95) Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM : Archives & APC MP, 729 ea, Silent 429-2 ADMIRAL KINKAID'S HQ No Captions No Date MS, Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid and aide, Lt Commander Robert H Taylor, leave Admiral's office and move down walk. Pan, Rear Admiral Francis Warren Rockwell, Commodore Pat Buchanan, Maj Gen Holland M Smith (MC) and Cdr Robert L Dennison walk out of North Pacific Fleet HQ bldg. LS, CU, same group emerging from car and entering HQ. MS, CUs, Rear Adm Rockwell and Gen Smith. Pan to Cdr Dennison and Commodore Buchanan. Insert, sign over doorway of quonset hut: "Commander Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet." LS, Kuluk Bay studded with warships. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERB/amf Record Group 111 Accession III - NAV - 210

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Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities

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1941–1945
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