Collision of New York bound express passenger railraod train with local train at Readville, Massachusetts. The trains collided at the crossing derailing the cars of opposite train and leaving 50 people injured. Low visibility due to snow blamed for disaster.1931.
A PX mobile canteen in Long Binh. Internal arrangement of food stuffs in the van is shown. A man in the van passes two cans to a soldier. Another soldier buys a can of drink from the van. Army trucks are seen in the background. (Vietnam War period).
Electric wire lines amidst smoke appear. POl storage tanks are seen on a side of road. Howitzer shells are stacked in ammo dump. The shells are fixed in sockets on base of open wooden box . The top and base of wooden box are strapped to fix the shells. These open wooden boxes are stacked. (Vietnam War period).
A watch tower with a sign board of Pol terminal. Red and black drums of fuel are piled in the Pol terminal. Some red drums have white bases while rest are completely red. Some red and black drums have an additional yellow seal on them. Completely grey and grey drums with white seal also appear.The drums are stacked one over the other. Wooden planks are seen between the drum piles. A hose pipe with a knob lie on ground. Petrol Main and Pol Lab is written on a Pol tank. Thumps-up sign is seen on both side of the written matter on the tank. (Vietnam War period).
A Vietnamese woman worker waters grass, with a hose, next to a collection of heavy duty electrical transformers stored outdoors on wooden skids. An ammunition dump filled with stacks of 155mm artillery shells. The dump is dug out so the perimeter is higher than the dirt floor of the dump. (Vietnam War period).
An ammunition dump at Long Binh, Vietnam. Stacks of 155mm artillery shells are loaded onto a truck by a crane, in groups of 16 at a time, on wooden skids holding 8 apiece.The soldiers are stripped to the waist. As a soldier unfastens a skid of 8 shells, from the crane, it falls over sideways. The other skid remains upright, as it is unfastened from the crane. In another scene, a large crane is used to stack shells in the ammunition dump. (Vietnam War period).
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