PORTREX, JOINT AIRBORNE-AMPHIBIOUS TRAINING EXERCISE, "D" DAY, VIEQUES ISLAND OFF PUERTO RICO Part 1

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 7870-1 ADC 7870 SOURCE: AFCF (Proj 13653) Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 942' ea Silent PORTREX, JOINT AIRBORNE=AMPHIBIOUS TRAINING EXERCISE Vieques Island Off Puerto Rico "D=Day" 8 March * 50 LS, showing airstrip as C=82s fly in toward camera. LS from ground, as C=82s come into scene and paratroopers jump. Cloud formation in background. LS, paratroopers drop to the airstrip. Pan shot of antitank ditch with barbed wire entanglements, LS, men go ashore from the landing craft on Red Beach. In a few scenes, several men fall as they make their way to beach. MS Follow, men running through the water to the beach. The men are carrying equip- ment, including a recoilless rifle and other weapons. The men take cover behind embankment. Shot of the beach beyond the water as men move in warily. One man in the foreground is crawling on the ground. LS, landing craft at the beach. MSs follow, two men of the invading force climbing over the mesquite on barbed wire obstruction. RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35=11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY FB/me Signal Corps 111 ADC 7870-2 ADC 7870 SOURCE: AFCF (Proj 13653) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 942 ea Silent PORTREX, JOINT AIRBORNE=AMPHIBIOUS TRAINING EXERCISE, (Cont) Vieques Island off Puerto Rico, (Cont) "D=Day" (Cont) 8 March '50 (Cont) A group, probably a patrol, moving inland toward the camera. Mines in foreground. Several dukws come through a cut in embankment; soldiers standing around. CU of soldier holding tag which is tied on his shirt and reads: "Walking Wounded." A few vehicles, including a bulldozer, moving inland through the sand. A group of men separating mines found on the beach. CU, mine. Enlisted man of an Umpire Team speaking over portable radio on the beach. Follow shot, three men carrying a recoilless rifle up sand embankment, MSs, soldier probing the sand for a mine and digging one up. A group of men prob= ing the sand for mines. MLS, three soldiers going over one of the barricades on the beach. MLS, men of the invading force standing on the beach near the barricade, One man carries telephone equipment on his back. RG 111 LS, VIPs and other spectators on top of VIP hill. Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35=11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY FB/me

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities