TRIESTE, FREE TERRITORY OF TRIESTE Part 2

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 7984-1 ADC 7984 SOURCE: AFCF (V-030-50) Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 659 ¥ ea Silent RG 111 Accession III_NAV_210 TRIESTE, Free Territory of Trieste; 15-18 May 1950 (Note: Ceremony celebrating the arrival of the 4-millionth ton of ECA-USFA Port Agency traffic to Austria was held in Trieste.) MS, Generals James C Fry and William M Hoge on launch® MS, Mr King with Mrs Mower and Dr Wilhelm Taucher. Views of the harbor from launch. Factories on shore, overturned vessel in water. Official party atop the warehouse at dock. MS, 1 to r Gen Hoge, Mr King, Gen Fry, Dr Taucher. HS, of vessel at pier, the Montello. A crate with the sign, "4=Millionth Ton ₉ ECA" (caterpillar tractor in three crates). Mr King and others shaking hands with the engineer of the yard engine which is carting the crates. LAS of the ship with banner reading, "American-Trieste, Austria", as the crate marked the 4-millionth ton is hoisted out of hatch by crane and let down on flatcar. Mr King and Dr Taucher at locomotive and around the flatcar which holds the freight. Standing on terrace outside of office, Maj Karl C Hansen and Maj John M Deering looking at ship in distance. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY ERS/ew Signal Corps 111 ADC 7984-2 ADC 7984 SOURCE: AFCF (V-030-50) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH E APC MP 659 v ea Silent RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 TRIESTE, Free Territory of Trieste; 15-18 May 1950 (CONT'D) Seq aboard ship: Maj Hansen and Maj H L Duncan, QM Accountable Office, going over ship's manifest with Chief Officer A K Kadletz of the "SS John Lykes". Bags of grain or sugar unloaded from hold of ship to piero MS, LA, sign, "USFA Port Agency". LS, MLS, Port Agency building. CU, sign, "Trieste US Troops". LS , Entrance to Military Post. MLS, Pan, yard locomotive pulling "4-millionth ton" out of Trieste dock area. Freight cars moving toward and to right of camera and then reserves angle of same. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th AVE., LIC 1, NY ERS/ew

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities