Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Special Film Reports. 1944 - 1945. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LAID TO REST [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Special Film Reports. 1944 - 1945. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT LAID TO REST [ETC.]

1945

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Part 1 (SFR only), the President's body is carried through Warm Springs, Ga., rides by train to Washington, D.C., carried in a procession to the White House, laid in the East Room, and buried at Hyde Park. Shows, at Union Station, Elliott Roosevelt and others in the family, Truman, Wallace, Stimson, Adm. King, and Gen. Marshall. Part 1 (CB only), six soldiers describe their activities in capturing the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, Ger. Part 2 (CB only), landing craft are unloaded at Ostend, Belg., and moved over land and water toward points for crossing the Rhine. Part 2 (CB part 4, reel 2), in the Philippines the 151st Regt. attacks Caballo Is. after aerial bombing and strafing. A stranded unit is supplied and then rescued. The 182nd Regt. (SFR reel 2) lands on Cebu Is. (Mar. 27), fights and captures Cebu City. Shows Gen. W.R. Arnold. Part 3 shows aerial views of Okinawa, especially the 10th Army beachhead. Troops attack caves and evacuate natives. A Japanese suicide rocket bomb is described and disassembled (SFR only; duplicated in CB 56, part 5). Part 4 (SFR only) shows fire fighting and repairs aboard the carrier Hancock. Part 5 (SFR reel 3), in Burma, elephant grass is cut and laid across deep dust on roads. A Burmese washes his face with a soap-impregnated OWI leaflet. An M-100 Japanese submachine gun is assembled and described and (CB reel 3) an enemy 75-mm gun is shown and described. Shows (SFR only) details in suspending a pipeline over the Salween River. Part 6 shows evidences of atrocities in several captured German concentration camps. Former Russian prisoners raid food stores at the Paderborn camp. War Crimes Investigation Teams inspect torture chambers, interview guards and officials, and exhume and perform autopsies on former inmates at various camps. German citizens are guided through one of the camps (SFR reel 4). Contains many scenes of dead and nearly dead inmates.

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