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WAKAYAMA LANDING, JAPAN Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 5373 111 SOURCE: AFCF (4A-392) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 855' ea Silent 5373-1 WAKAYAMA LANDING, Japan 25 Sept 1945 LS, several 2 1/2 ton amphibian trucks (dukws) rolling off LSMs and making for the shore. MS, radio dukw of the 16th Signal Ser Bn rolling from water onto beach. LS, LSMs at beach; bulldozers, equipment and some men in fg. LS side view, infantrymen coming off landing barge at beach. VS, soldiers of the 136th Inf, 33rd Div, marching inland from beach. VS, Japanese civilians watching soldiers work on jeep. Long line of jeeps moving inland. Interior of soldiers sitting in train coach. Record Group 111 LS, train in station. Accession III-NAV-210 VS, damage in industrial area of Wakayama. Interiors, large vacant building, formerly Kangyo-Kan Museum. LS, entrance and building of the Sixth Army Hq at Kyoto. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY FB/es Signal Corps ADC 5373 111 SOURCE: AFCF (4A-392) Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 855' ea Silent 5373-2 WAKAYAMA LANDING, Japan (Cont'd) 25 Sept 1945 (Cont'd) LS, soldiers looking at souvenirs in ship. Dukw loaded with radio communications truck of the 16th Signal Corps Bn rolling through streets. VS, men of the 16th Sig Bn stringing wire at the Sixth Army HQ. MS, corpsman at radio equipment truck. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC1, NY FB / es Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities

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1945-09-25
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