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Montgomery speaking shortly after the start of the Normandy campaign. US 7th Corps' sector of the Allied beachhead in Normandy.

Reel Number: 300385

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1944

Country: England,France,United Kingdom,USA

Location:

TC Begins: 01:00:00

TC Ends: 01:10:31

Duration: 00:10:31

01:00:05 11th June 1944 showing General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Allied Land forces commander for the initial stage of the invasion of Europe, addressing Allied war correspondents at a press conference in the grounds of 21st Army Group HQ at Creully. 01:00:40 US 7th Corps' sector of the Allied beachhead in Normandy. Scenes filmed on a busy road in 1st US Army’s sector of the Allied beachhead in use by jeeps, a Dodge ambulance and GMC truck showing two US officer (9th Air Force) wearing steel helmets on horseback. 01:01:12 Carentan on 12th June 1944 showing French civilians and firemen (“Les Pompiers”) tackling fires in buildings struck by German artillery fire. 01:02:20 slate “Unit: BAT Fotog: Maloney Roll No. 6 Date: 6-12-44 Loc: Red Beach” 01:02:24 UTAH Beach at one of the main beach exits at UNCLE RED Beach showing four US officers in conversation with a good deal of activity going on behind them; the officer  with goggles over his steel helmet is Lt-General Lawton J Collins, commander of the 7th  US Corps and the one with a single star on his helmet is identified as Brigadier-General Barton (1st Engineers, 24 Brigade): Collins and his AFC are seen leaving the scene in a Dodge Command car while the Brigadier-General and two other officers depart in a jeep: a sign at the beach exit for UNCLE RED beach group troops’ HQ. 01:03:05 “iNV. 137”. (OHIO OIC: LT WITSCHER). 9th June 1944 showing a stretch of road on 82nd Airborne Division’s sector of the frontline in the Cotentin Peninsula near Amfreville (possibly La Fiere) showing three knocked out French Hotchkiss H-39 tanks captured by the Germans in 1940 and pressed into service with Panzer-Abteilung-100, framed by the rear idler wheel of an H-39 panzer on the left of the frame and a tank thank lying across the road: a jeep and a GMC truck towing a trailer drive past the crippled German tanks. 01:03:29 GIs from the 4th Infantry Division filing along both sides of a stretch of road: a body of a German soldier lying behind a knocked-out Hotchkiss H-39 tank. First aid post established by an 82nd Airborne Division medical unit in a farmyard near Amfreville showing medics looking after casualties resting on stretchers and covering one patient with an injured right foot with a blanket. 01:04:12 “INV. 137” slate “Nero Roll V Date: 6/11/44 Camera: T/4 K. Smith  Location: France Subject: 128 Evacuation Hospital”. Grass meadow taken over 128 Evacuation Hospital at Boutteville, a village halfway between Ste Mere- Eglise and Ste Marie-du-Mont, showing German prisoners driving tent pegs into the ground with millets and assembling camp bed,  watched by a US Military Policeman. 01:05:17 K C Smiith’s Roll 5. Dodge ambulance arriving outside a tent in the grounds of 128 Evacuation Hospital and medical personnel carrying two patients on stretchers out of the tent and loading them into the ambulance which then is driven away on the first leg of their journey for treatment in England, 

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