Guam Typhoon Disaster, Guam Reel 1 · Part 2

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 L279 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 (A) Release No. 241-62 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: FINE GRAIN TO, Footage: 1,700 352220 200' 16am 14 November 1962 GUAM TYPHOON DESASTER (Official Air Force footage released by Department of Defense) Karen, the worst storm ever to ladt Guam, swept across the Western Pacific Island with winds up to 175 miles en bour leaving thousands homeless and causing damage estimated at hundreds of million dollars, late Sunday the 11th, and Monday, the 12th of November 1962. Reports from the 30 mile long island were sketchy because all commercial communications were smalled by the typhoon. The havoc 1280 worse that that created by all the Guam took from both sides in WW II. U. S. Air Force planes from Japan and The Philippines flow in Red Cross officials and Military Relief personnel and supplies. The United States Kavy reported that no American military personnel or dependents were among the storm casualties. Advence warning from The U. S. AirForce Typhoon Warning System was credited with keeping down the death toll. 3/ ALL SAC 3-47 bombers stationed at Anderson Air Force Base were flows to Walos Island and Okinava before the storm hit. HOTE TO EDITORS: 1700' 35mm B/W unprocessed illn and 200' 16mm B/W unprocessed Min handed out to CBS, New York, for servicing both IV and theatrical pool members. Original film to be forwarded to 1365th Photo Squadron, Orlando Air Force Base, Florida, within 48 hours. Laffed 4-17-63 Plant 5/13/63 NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. E10575

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Filmed News Releases