OPERATION VITTLES, RHEIN MAIN AIR BASE, FRANKFURT, GERMANY Part 2

Description

Signal Corps 111 ADC 7200-1 ADC 7200 SOURCE: AFCF (M-3020) Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 875' ea Silent OPERATION VITTLES Rhein Main Air Base, Frankfurt, Germany 27 July 1948 Follow shot, C-54 taxiing down runway alongside main landing strip and pulling off to the side. Sequence: DPs loading sacks aboard C-54. (Light struck) Sequence: DPs loading sacks of coal from truck to C-54. LSs, C-54 being refueled. Gasoline truck coming up to C-54. CU, man fueling plane. Laborers loading household goods and other belongings from a C-54 into semitrailer truck. Men from the 19th Troop Carrier Squadron Group repairing the bearing in landing gear of C-54. LS, showing the tails of C-54s which are lined up along sidings. MCU, Sgt checking gasoline being filled into wing tank. DP crews loading sacks of coal into C-54. RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/me Signal Corps 111 ADC 7200-2 ADC 7200 SOURCE: AFCF (M-3020) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 875' ea Silent OPERATION VITTLES, (Cont) Rhein Main Air Base, Frankfurt, Germany, (Cont) 27 July 1948, (Cont) MLS, Sgt stands by with fire extinguisher as engines of C-54s are being turned over. Head-on shot, C-54s warming up before takeoff. RV, several C-54s taxiing on strip in takeoff. Headon shot and RA, C-54 coming down runway and taking off for Templehof. FS, C-54 lifts off runway in takeoff. Headon shot, C-54s warming up. LS, semitrailers lined up on field; some men standing about. RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/me

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities