Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Special Film Reports. 1944 - 1945. REDEPLOYMENT OPERATIONS [ETC.]

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Special Film Reports. 1944 - 1945. REDEPLOYMENT OPERATIONS [ETC.]

1945

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Part 1 shows activities at a redeployment camp in Leghorn, It.; vehicles are overhauled; surgical instruments are cleaned and packed; rifles are packed in grease; trucks and ships are loaded; troops are processed. Part 2, Dutch are evacuated from floods caused by the German destruction of dikes. German prisoners in Norway and the Netherlands remove land mines. Shows criminals of war before and after being discharged from the German army. Part 3 (SFR only; duplicated in CB 61, part 3) demonstrates in detail how to execute the one-man carry. Part 4 (SFR reel 2; CB part 3) shows the use of a special drill for enlarging the cavity on artillery shells for V-T fuses. Part 5 (CB part 4) shows activities on Okinawa: 75 and 57mm recoiless rifles are test fired; Gen. Richardson visits Gen. Buckner's grave; Gens. Arnold and Kenney arrive for a meeting; troops battle (CB reel 2) final enemy positions (June). Tanks and infantry use flamethrowers, grenades, explosives, and other weapons in the battle. Japanese surrender, are interrogated, and interned. Shows scenes of activities in the prison camp. Part 5 (CB only), carrier planes down Japanese planes and strafe ships. Shows heated battle between U.S. ships and Kamikaze planes off Okinawa. Several planes are downed, and one damages a carrier. U.S. planes land on a carrier; one crashes. Shows the burning of the Saratoga in Feb.

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