PREPARATION AND DEPARTURE FROM GUADALCANAL, SOLOMON ISLANDS AND LANDING ON RENDOVA ISLAND, SOLOMON ISLANDS, SW PACIFIC ; GENERAL RICHARDSON ON SAIPAN, MARIANAS ISLANDS, WEST PACIFIC Part 1

Description

Signal Corps ADC 5230 11 SOURCE: AFCF (B-15 & D=205) Card 1 of 2 DC FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 909 eag Silent 230-1 LANDING AT GUADALCANAL Solomon Islands, S W Pacific, 30 June 43 (B-15) VS, troops loading into landing craft at pier. VS, Adm Wilkinson, Maj Gen Ernest N Harmon, and Gen Pack (USMC) with their aides get into launch. Adm and Gens confer in launch. MS, launch approaching the SS Macauley. MCU, Gen Harmon climbing aboard ship. LS, convoy moving from Guadalcanal. VS, general activity aboard the Macauley. VS, soldiers prepare equipment in landing craft on deck of ship, others clean 37mm shells. Seq: Landing craft are lowered from ship and head toward beach. VS, soldiers carry supplies from landing craft to shore. MS, 37mm gun pointing inland, crew crouched around gun. VS, Japanese-American soldiers reading captured notes. MCU, Maj Gen F P Mulcahy, (USMC) Gen Harmon, and Col Riding talk on beach. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY FB/lzw Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 Signal Corps ADC 5230 11 SOURCE: AFCF (B-15 & D-205) Card 2 of 2 DC FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 909' ea, Silent 230-2 GEN RICHARDSON ON SAIPAN, MARIANAS ISLS West Pacific - - 28 August 1945 (D-205) Seq: B-24 plane lands at Kobler Field, taxis toward camera and stops. VS, Lt Gen Robert C Richardson gets out of plane and is greeted by high-ranking Army and Navy officers. MCU, Gen Richardson. Seq: Gen Richardson gets into car and drives off. 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