TRAINS TO BERLIN (BLOCKADE LIFTED), BERLIN, GERMANY Part 1

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 7508 ADC 7508 SOURCE: AFCF (ESPC - 10 - 49) FILM: Arch and APC MP 542' ea Silent TRAINS TO BERLIN (BLOCKADE LIFTED) Berlin Germany 12 May 1949 RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 Atmosphere shot from railbed, people on railroad platform. HLS, train approaching end of siding after completing run from Frankfurt. People on platform, watching. RTO officers holding Transportation Corps sign against train. Two German employees checking carload sheets with manifest at gondola car which carries the first coke to arrive in Berlin since lifting of blockade. One of men climbing in between gondola cars and looking at coke. LS, coke cars on siding. Engine steaming into siding for car reconsignment. Train is pulling coal car. LS, coal cars being backed up on siding. CU, coke in cars with tilt up showing other cars in line. Train called "Berliner" arriving at Berlin Victorfeld West Station. Civilians speaking to engineer and firemen in cab. Civilians crowded around engine looking up at engineer and firemen. CU, man looking out of car marked "Mitropa". Locomotive pulling into yard. CU, civilian railroad worker making notations on clipboard. CU, sign on side of train "Berlin-Munich". CU, American MP waving hand from window of car. CU, engineer in cab. CU, wheels of locomotive. CU, as wheels of locomotive start to turn. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE, LIC 1, N Y ERBS/kr

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities