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INVASION OF BIAK,
Island off West New Guinea, largest of Schouten Islands; 30 Nov 1944
LSs, invasion craft under way in the distance. Flak bursts overhead.
LA, mast and part of bridge on unidentified vessel. Aboard deck of vessel, a gun partly covered with canvas to the left; mountainous shore in background.
On the island an artillery piece in the distant background fires.
LS, few tents on beach.
CU, rough sign; "MP CP Stockade".
Japanese prisoners seated in stockade.
CU, emaciated prisoner eating. An American officer talks to the prisoner. A prisoner speaks to the officer.
Pan L to R, LVTs along beach; improvised tents set up between palm trees.
A few soldiers standing and in the distance some planes overhead.
MCU, American soldier eating near a fire. He smiles at the camera.
LS few soldiers around an open fire which is sending up a great deal of smoke. A soldier examines a disabled Japanese artillery piece.
Black American soldiers pass a destroyed Japanese gun.


INVASION OF BIAK
Island off West New Guinea, largest of Schouten Islands;
30 Nov 1944
MS, three Americans each with a week's growth of beard. One man is holding a black cat. The black cat walking on top of the barrel of a gun aboard ship.
RV, AA gunner aboard ship as he looks twd smoke on the beach, turns, smiles.
LS, shore photographed from a ship during sunset.
IS, ravaged beach. Few LVTs move in the center of frame away from camera. Smoke from fires seen in the background. A tractor pulls two-wheeled trailers and HOW (soft).
MLS, 21/2 ton dukws and a tractor pulling a trailer and a HOW. A man is
seated atop the gun.
MLS, dukw moves away from camera and a soldier walks towards the camera at L.
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Courtesy of National Archives: NAID 15303.
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