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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221499-08
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944,1940s
Country: France,USA
Location: Lo,St
TC Begins: 16:05:19
TC Ends: 16:15:06
Duration: 00:09:47
WWII - 1944, France: Europe, Moving Equipment By Barge; Distributing K Rations, St. Lo area, 19Jul44 INV 540 Tug pulling large barge w/ three cranes & several bulldozers & army trucks across large bay. Other barges w/ equipment. 16:06:38 Sailors laying out ropes on deck. Freighters at anchor; ocean going tug & coming alongside landing craft 809. View from dock w/ tug leaving towing barge heavily loaded w/ cranes booms, generators, etc. Freighters docked in harbor. Crane being hoisted off freighter onto landing craft. Barge w/ cranes, trucks, concrete mixers. CUs. 16:10:14 men sitting on equipment on barge. Landing craft US 809 w/ crane aboard. US Navy officers on deck watching loading. Men preparing crane for unloading, crane moving to front of landing craft under own power. Black Seabee or laborer operating crane lifting forklift out of hold of ship & onto landing craft. 16:13:35 Undoing sling, pushing forklift. 16:14:01 Slate: 19Jul44 St. Lo Subject Rations. Cameraman: Sgt. R. Meyer. Soldiers w/ rifles on back in field opening ration crates, gathering K Ration packets & carrying to hedgerow & passing out to riflemen; others eating. Tired soldier. WW2 D-Day (?); Invasion; Food; Eating;