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36th Naval Construction Battalion Seabees, Bougainville, 1944
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Extracted from United States Naval Photographic Center Film #1437 National Archives description "1) MS Group of CB"s eating chow in tent on Bougainville Island. 2) CU Several of the men eating chow at the tables. 3) MS CB dropping mail into box. 4) MS Looking inside tent which serves as CPO mess; man walks up to mailbox and drops mail into it.5) LA CU Sign: "CPO Mess". 6) MS PAN Group of Marines lined up for chow. 7) MCU Sign on side of tree: "Movie Today". 8) MS Long line of trucks along roadway, tents in BG. 9) HA MS Group of CB"s sitting on ground waiting for movies. (SV) 10) MLS Column of Marines, in combat gear, marching down roadway; PAN down the roadway with trucks of various types coming and going. 11) MS PAN Group of Marines hauling cart along a road. 12) GV Marines and trucks coming down roadway (SV). 13) MCU Sign: "36th. U.S. Navy Construction Battalion". 14) MS Sign, trucks passing by in FG, tents in BG. 15) MS Tent city. 16) LS Large dump truck loaded with dirt coming down road. 17) MS Bulldozer pushing dirt along airstrip. 18) MS Tractor hauling another vehicle. 19) MLS Bombed-out area, CHAPLAIN DUPLISSEY saying Mass, hearing confessions and administering Holy Communi…
Directors & creators
United States. Navy
Subjects
WWII, World War, 1939-1945, United States. Navy, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, American, United States. -- Navy -- Seabees, World War II, United States. -- Navy -- Construction Battalion, 35th, World War, 1939-1945 -- Engineering And Construction, United States. Marine Corps, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Solomon Islands, Chaplains, Military -- United States, Duplissey, Frederick John, Deichler, L.V.C.
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