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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221002-07
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: Guam,Pacific
Location: Agana,Guam,Pacific
TC Begins: 17:41:22
TC Ends: 17:51:26
Duration: 00:10:04
Guam - Draining Swamps and Airfield Construction 16Oct44? Military lorry driving over muddy road. Base camp - tented area. Supplies unloaded. Truck in mud. Men filling in muddy patches with stones / agregate. Pan around swamp area; water seeping through gullies. Digging channels with pickaxe. 17:44:40 Agana Field - pan across airstrip. Surveyor w/ equipment, assistant making notes. Bulldozer at work. Airstrip under construction. Dumper truck unloading ballast - laying tarmac - roller. 17:46:58 Asphalt - digger loading onto truck - ‘72 Seabees’ on door of truck. AV island. 17:48:10 Asphalt mixer - smoking chimneys from plant - Heavy machinery. 17:49:16 Tented camp of 42nd Bomb Squadron. Man washing socks on board. Breaking up oil cans with axe. Drainage pit with cans and ballast. Constructing wooden hut. Using acetylene torch on metal sheet. Pacific War. WWII.