Congressional Inspection of Naval Activities 1 June - 12 July, 1945 (1 of 8 recordings)

Creator

United States. Army

Identifier

whitten_16mm_8

Creation Date

1945

Document Type

Open Access Recording

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Description

Congressmen participating in inspection tour: Harry R. Shepherd of California (Chair of Naval Subcommittee of the House Appropriation Committee); Noble J. Johnson of Indiana; Jamie L. Whitten of Mississippi; Walter C. Ploeser of Missouri; Pete Jarman of Alabama; and Robert A. Grant of Indiana. Department of Navy personnel on tour: Wilfred J. McNeil (Fiscal Director); Rear Admiral Ezra G. Allen (Director of Budget and Reports); Captain Wilbur E. Kellum (Bureau of Medicine and Surgery); Commander Earle D. Chainey (Congressional Liaison Officer, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts), Lt. Charles F. Armstrong (Deputy Assistant Director, Photography Division); and Yeoman 1/c Salvadore J. Da Frenda. Footage begins with Washington, DC (Jefferson Memorial and Washington Monument, aerial views); Oakland, California (men entering plane, aerial views), Oahu, Territory of Hawaii (tour party poses, rainbow, beach scenes, mountain, city streets, flowers, cows, lei makers, planes, artillery shots at a firing range, hand-to-hand combat training, flame thrower demonstration, tank, plane landing and passengers taking off); Palmyra, Line Islands (aerial view, disembarking from plane, landscape); Upola, Samoa Islands (aerial views, landscape, plane, beach with local boats, delegation with local man, airfield, loading of plane, aerial views); Tutuila, Samoa Islands (caption but no images follow).

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Navy Appropriations; World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area; Washington (D.C.); Oakland (Calif.); Oahu (Hawaii); Palmyra Atoll (Line Islands); Samoan Islands; Sheppard, Harry Richard, 1885-1969; Johnson, Noble Jacob, 1887-1968; Whitten, Jamie L.; Ploeser, Walter Christian, 1907-1993; Jarman, Peterson Bryant, 1892-1955; Grant, Robert Allen, 1905-1998; McNeil, Wilfred J. (Wilfred James), 1901-; Allen, Ezra G.; Kellum, Wilbur E.; Chainey, Earle D.; Armstrong, Charles F.; Da Frenda, Salvadore J.

Relational Format

video recording

Extent

21:19

Original Format

16mm (photographic film size)

Original Collection

Jamie L. Whitten Collection (MUM00732), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

Finding Aid

http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00732/

Rights

This media file is for personal and research use only. This file may not be reproduced, re-posted, captured or saved. For publication and professional uses, please contact the Archives and Special Collections at the University of Mississippi Libraries.

Comments

container label: Official U.S. Navy Motion Picture Film, Classif: Reel I-pI