U.S. INVASION CONVOY LANDS Part 1

Description

<*>(CONFIDENTIAL)<*>1) LS Tracers and shell fire from camera ship splash in water short of an unidt. shoreline.2) MLS Unidt. LST underway.3) LS Various vessels underway, fire and smoke from unidt. shoreline in BG. (SV)4) LS CL underway in harbor, other ships underway in BG (SV).5) LS Unidt. Merchant ship burning off shoreline.6) HA MS Looking down deck of unidt. ship, showing soldiers in chow line (SV).7) MS Men sitting on deck of ship eating chow (SV).8) LS Unidt. Minesweeper underway.9) HA MS Looking down deck, several guns pointing toward starb'd; small boat passes by in BG.10) HA MS Bow view of Minesweeper *207 (?) coming alongside.11) HA MS Flag marker for the cable, which is towed to stern of the Minesweeper.12) LS Bow view, two unidt. CL's underway, part of the superstructure of camera ship in FG (SV).13) LS City and shoreline along Algiers Harbor (SV).14) LS Portion of the city of Algiers; Barrage balloons are seen thru a porthole of the ship.15) LS Ship burning along dock; heavy smoke and city in BG (SV). (ship is an AP).16) LS AP towed out of harbor while still burning; other ships in harbor at anchor (SV).17) LS USS SAVANNAH (CL-42) tied up at the pier, city in BG.18) LS Burning AP towed out of harbor, city of Algiers in BG.(FORMERLY 979) PROD. BY: USS BROOKLYN (CPU-6) <*>RESTRICTED<*> U.S. INVASION CONVOY ENTERS, LEAVES, ORAN, ALGERIA19) HA CU Group of enl'd men around an officer an he points to parts of a relief map of Sicily.20) MCU Two officers and three enl'd men looking at the relief map.21) MCU Four officers in the wardroom aboard ship studying a relief map.22) CU Hands of two officers checking a paper map against the relief map.23) LS Oran Harbor, AP and DD underway.24) LS AP at anchor in harbor25) LS AP underway in harbor, other ships at anchor in harbor.26) MLS Port bow view of an AP underway (SV).27) LS Various ships at anchor and some underway in harbor.28) LS Undit. Cargo ship, two sailors sitting on bitts aboard unidt. camera ship.29) MLS Group of AP's at anchor in Oran Harbor.30) LA MCU Signalman standing on bridge of unidt. camera ship sending a semaphore message.31) HA MS Men climbing down side of camera ship into a small boat.32) MS Two officers leaning against the lifelines of the ship.33) LS City of Oran, several men on deck of camera ship looking out to sea.34) LS Unidt. DD underway in harbor, men on deck of ship in FG.35) LS Starb'd quarter view of unidt. AP underway in harbor.36) HA MS Group of sailors standing on deck of an unidt. CL.37) MLS British DDL-75 underway in harbor; unidt. AP's moored in BG.38) HA MLS Two tugs assisting camrea ship, USS BROOKLYN in harbor.39) LA LS Shrine on top of hill.

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities