OPERATION AIRLIFT (TV), LUFTHAFEN, RHEIN MAIN AIRPORT Part 1

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 7449-1 ADC 7449 SOURCE: AFCF (M-3094) Card 1 of 2 FILM: Arch and APC MP 948 ea Silent OPERATION AIRLIFT (TV) RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 Lufthafen, Rhein Main Airport 15 March 1949 Seq: Freight cars at railroad siding. Sgt opens freight doors, bags of flour within. Truck backs up to freight car, men begin unloading. MLS, German laborers stack flour in truck. LS, railhead at Lufthafen. Freight cars coming in; trucks lined up. MS, name on building "Lufthafen, Rhein Main". ECU, seal on boxcar door. MS, Sgt breaking seal. LS, train pulls out of railhead. Wheels and body of truck as it backs up. LS, MS, German laborers unload bags of flour from freight cars to trucks. MLS, flour bags stacked in truck men coming in and piling sacks atop. CU, several flour bags with name of St Louis Mo mill. LS, trucks loaded with flour pull away from freight cars. Lt Col J B Andrews and Lt Do O Graham inspect loading of trucks. Col speaks to Lt. RV, as laborers load flour into truck. Side view, several trucks loaded with flour cross railroad track. FS, loaded truck pulling out. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/kr Signal Corps 111 ADC 7449-2 ADC 7449 SOURCE: AFCF (M=3094) Card 2 of 2 FILM: Arch and APC MP 948' ea Silent RG 111 OPERATION AIRLIFT (TV) (Cont'd) Accession III-NAV-210 Lufthafen, Rhein Main Airport 15 March 1949 (Cont'd) MLS, three semitrailer trucks moving past camera. LS, few trucks passing on highway; in the bg airfield building. LS, semitrailer truck on road; soldier checks truck and puts slip on vehicle. Truck stops in front of ground operations while soldier comes out with orders. Laborers climb aboard semitrailer truck loaded with coal. German laborers seated atop loaded coal trucks. LS, C-54 turning on field and coming to stop. LS, laborers load bags of coal from truck to plane. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, NY ERBS/kr

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities