11TH AIR BASE TROOPS AND PLANES LEAVE FOR JAPAN, KADENA AIRPORT, OKINAWA ; GENERAL WAINWRIGHT ARRIVES AT MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 5188 111 SOURCE: AFCF (A-708 & A- 365) ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 625t ea, Silent 5188 11TH AB TROOPS AND PLANES LEAVE FOR JAPAN Kadena Airport, Okinawa Can 30 Aug 1945 (A-708) VS, troops of the 11th AB Div seated on ground near C-54 planes. The men get up, put on their packs, helmets, form into single line and board the planes. M & CU, soldier ties Red Cross armband on another soldier's arm. VS, C-54 planes warming up, taxiing, and taking off. GEN WAINWRIGHT ARRIVES AT MANILA, PHIL IS 30 August 1945 (A-365) Lt Gen Jonathan M Wainwright accompanied by Lt Gen A E Percival (Brit) and Brig Gen Lewis C Beebe on field after landing. VS, Pres Sergio Osmena, Gen Charles A Willoughby, and others greeting General Wainwright. M & MCU, Gen Wainwright. LS, the General's B-17 plane lands, taxis into position and stops as crowd on field moves in. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY FB/lzw Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities