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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1567-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: England,France,United Kingdom
Location: Leicester,Rennes
TC Begins: 10:24:25
TC Ends: 10:34:06
Duration: 00:09:41
WWII - 1944, Rennes, France & Cleaning Wreckage & Bridge Construction; Ike Reviews 82nd AB, Leicester, England 04-10Aug44 INV 1126 Slate: Rennes, France. Date ??. High angle of river or canal w/ rubble & destroyed buildings. Soldiers clearing street alongside & working on tangled electrical wires from truck. Cutting w/ large cutter. 10:25:31 Slate: same, 04Aug44. Tilt up wrecked bridge & street w/ cleanup underway. Civilians watching & walking past heavily damaged multistory buildings. Woman w/ suitcase into building. Women, children & men w/ bicycles walking past. 10:26:37 Slate: same, 05Aug44. High angle of convoy of army trucks w/ German prisoners of war thru town. 10:27:00 GIs shoveling rubble into truck. 10:27:42 INV 1127 Slate: 07Aug44. Camera Meltenberger. Rennes Bridge Construction. Soldiers unloading steel truss sections for bridge, truck leaves. Men working on bridge surface w/ level on fresh concrete. 10:28:49 Slate: Same. Men working on bridge, various shots. LS crew on each side of broken section. men working w/ picks & shovels digging out trolley rails. 10:29:53 B 666 Slate: Airborne Review Robins, 10Aug44. General Eisenhower out of staff car & salutes MPs, walks w/ two officers to jeep. Standing past troops on airfield saluting. Out of jeep & onto reviewing stand; band marches past. 10:30:57 CU flags, over officers as troops walk past saluting. MCUs, Jeeps pulling artillery past. Marching troops. CU Ike talking to troops & smiling. On to platform & speaks into microphones (MOS) to listening troops. WW2; Rebuilding; Morale; Damage; Paratroopers;