Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the "Combat Bulletin" Program Series. 1944 - 1951. PRESIDENT ARRIVES FOR CONFERENCE [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the "Combat Bulletin" Program Series. 1944 - 1951. PRESIDENT ARRIVES FOR CONFERENCE [ETC.]

1945

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Part 1, Truman, Eden, Stimson, Byrnes, Leahy, and Marshall arrive in Berlin for the Potsdam Conference. Part 2 demonstrates new Signal Corps equipment at A.P. Hill Military Reservation, Virginia, including a weather balloon, sound locator, switchboards, and wire. 1st Army officers, including Gen. C.H. Hodges, are addressed by Gen. G.L. van Deusen. Part 3 (SFR Reel 2), Chinese troops reoccupy Liuchow and hold a flag-raising ceremony (June 13). Shows damage caused by retreating Japanese. Part 4 (CB reel 2), the 8th Regiment gathers and comforts frightened civilians on Aguni Island in the Ryukyus. Part 5 (CB part 6), a typhoon in the Pacific lashes the 3rd Fleet. Seaplanes are wrecked on the battleship Massachusetts and the cruiser Pittsburgh. Shows damages and repairs on the carrier Hornet. The bow of the carrier Bennington is damaged. The Pittsburgh loses 100 feet of bow, but steams to Guam, where a temporary bow is affixed. Also shows the battleship Indiana. Part 6 (CB part 5), the 13th Air Force and the 7th Fleet bombard Balikpapan, Borneo. Australian troops go ashore and fight. Shows General MacArthur aboard a ship and ashore.

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