MILAN, ITALY ; VISIT TO 5TH ARMY COMMAND POST, VERONA, ITALY ; 6TH SOUTH AFRICAN DIVISION, VIC CASTEL-FRANCO (?), ITALY Part 3

Description

Signal Corps ADC 4315 SOURCE: AFCF (0-1159) Card 1 of 2 111 ADC FILM: ARCH MP & APC MP, 1,076 ฿ Silent 4315-1 MILAN, ITALY 30 April 1945 LS, MS, pan, crowd of workmen in front of bombed-out automobile factory. VS, wrecked buildings of factory. Seq: Surrender of German garrison in front of Hotel Zurin as troops load weapons and equipment into their own trucks. MSs, German officers picking out fresh eggs from crates and eating them. VS, truck convoy carrying British troops being greeted by civilians as it drives thru streets. VS, American troops in trucks and tanks moving thru streets. VS, crowds of Italians cheering entry of British and American troops. VISIT TO 5TH ARMY COMMAND POST Verona, Italy; 3 May 1945 MSs, CUs, Commander John S Young, Asst Foreign Economic Administrator and Congressman Everett M Dirksen at airport. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY MS/dk Signal Corps ADC 4315 111 SOURCE: AFCF (0-1159) Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH MP & APC MP, 1,076 ฿ Silent 4315-2 6TH SOUTH AFRICAN DIVISION Vic Castel-Franco (?), Italy; 30 April 1945 VS, stalled convoy being held up by bomb crater in road. MSs, South African troops and Italian civilians filling in bomb crater on road. MSs, CUs, convoy moving over filled-in crater. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY MS/dk

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities