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German version of events on D Day and the first days of the Normandy campaign. Reel 2 of 2

Reel Number: 300403

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944

Country: France,USA

Location: Normandy

TC Begins: 01:00:00

TC Ends: 01:06:22

Duration: 00:06:22

German version of events on D Day and the first days of the Normandy campaign. Reel 2 of 2 01:00:03 Luftwaffe anti-aircraft gunners in action with batteries of 3.7cm and 8.8cm cannon and the Allied bombing of Caen; a formation of US bombers flying overhead. 01:00:40 Luftwaffe flak gunners in action with a quadruple 2cm flak cannon mounted on a railway wagon chassis in a railway siding somewhere in France : a distant formation of Allied bombers flying overhead. 01:00:53 Dramatic explosions purportedly showing buildings being bombed by the Allies but more likely to be the work of German demolition teams clearing an area in order to improve fields of fire for German gunners. 01:00:56 Three Wulf FW 190A  fighters flying off to do battle with Allied bomber formations, vapour trails high in the skies, burning fragments of shot down aircraft falling earthwards, dramatic explosions on the ground. 01:01:22 Flak range-finder predictor being manually operated and quickly-cut shots of 8.8cm flak cannon at full elevation in action, vapour trails high in the sky, FW 190A flying low over the camera, a blazing an Allied aircraft plunging towards earth, the upside down port wing of a US four-engined bomber on fire. 01:01:43 ?D plus One showing the destruction caused by the first major Allied air raids on the city of Caen designed to disrupt the flow of German reinforcements to the invasion beaches and French civilians leaving the city on foot with as much of their possessions they can take with them. 01:02:01 Scenes in a street in the centre of Caen where German soldiers possibly from 21. Panzer Division have to perform a U-turn in their Laffly 4x4 field car as the way ahead is blocked by bomb rubble - a German despatch rider swerved to avoid them and heads past the camera past local inhabitants making their way out of the city on foot: more civilians make their way to safety past motorised German troops heading through Caen in the opposite direction towards the British and Canadian beachheads. 01:02:12 The afternoon of D Day showing Panzer IV Ausf. H tanks (“333 “ and “524”),  motorcycle combinations and Hotchkiss H-39 10.5cm leFH18 self-propelled guns serving with units under the command of 21. Panzer Division moving up to the invasion front along a section of the Caen-Vimont road towards Caen. 01:02:23 D plus One showing a column of Panzer IVs and VW Kubelwagens belonging to II/SS Panzer-Regiment-Nr 12 moving up along a tree-lined road towards Caen. 8.8cm flak detachment and Panzer IVs of II/SS Panzer-Regiment-Nr. 12 in action in support of the grenadiers of SS Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 25 in pushing back an attempt by the 3rd Canadian Division to advance as far as the Carpiquet airfield west of Caen, a staged scene showing Canadians wuth raised hands giving themselves up to SS grenadiers (the Abbaye Ardennes in the background at 01:02:53), knocked out Sherman tanks from the Sherbrooke Fusiliers (both ordinary 75mm gun tanks and a Sherman Firefly armed with a 17-pounder gun), Panzer IVs advancing across wheatfields with youthful panzer-grenadiers past knocked-out and burning Sherman tanks and Bren gun carriers. Two Canadian prisoners bring in a wounded comrade. 01:03:23 Panzer IV in action and the 'Hitlerjugend' battlegroup closing in on its objective (Buron or Authie). Stug. III 7.5cm assault gun being driven past the camera; views of a military exercise ground with sandy soil. 01:05:43 SS Panzer IVs and panzer-grenadiers advancing towards a village: a heavy MG42 team in action, SS grenadiers advancing down a lane towards past a knocked out Sherman tank: fires burning in the Norman countryside. German grenadiers posed next to flames firing an MP40, an MG34 detachment in action, Grermand using stick grenades to clear an enemy-held village, a fire and an explosion among buildings. 01:05:13 A short sequence showing the commander of a battery of multiple 8cm rocket laminate shouting firing orders down a field telephone and two 8cm rocket launchers lined up under trees at the edge of a field in action. A dramatic end shot filmed during pre-D Day exercises showing flamethrowers drench a road block with flame

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