REPATRIATION & REINTERMENT PROCESSING, HENRI-CHAPELLE, BELGIUM Part 1

Description

Signal Corps 111 ADC 7335 ADC 7335 SOURCE: (M-3050) AFCF FILM: ARCH & APC MP 608' ea Silent MUNICH 798- REPATRIATION & REINTERMENT PROCESSING HENRI-CHAPELLE, Belgium - 25-29 Oct 1948 SPX-66 Seq: A shipping case is placed and locked over casket. Nailing the tag to case. Scenes at cemetery; Chaplain and Honor Guard walk in take their respective places and chaplain begins burial ceremony. After reading, chaplain and Honor Guard present arms. CU, chaplain reading from the Scriptures. CU, soldier (Honor Guard) standing at attention. LS, crane in operation digging trench for burial; coffins in foreground. Shots, laborers working in bottom of trench, leveling it off for placement of caskets. American officer stands by. Laborers carrying caskets into trench for reburial. Extreme right, crane is in operation. Crew aligning caskets in trench. A civilian engineer directing shovel operator. Operator during operation of filling trench with dirt. A Lt checking caskets prior to their being placed in graves. LS, bulldozer shoving last of dirt into graves. A man directing the dozer. RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/10

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities