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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250003-12
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: France
Location: Brittany,Chartres
TC Begins: 06:00:48
TC Ends: 06:13:09
Duration: 00:12:21
WWII - 1944, Under Sec of War Patterson; 19Aug44 Sherman Tanks; 23Aug44 Resistance Funeral USA 3-star staff car to C-32 transport plane. Lt General & unid. civilians exit; Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson in suit. USAAF 3-star Lt. General ??. Patterson & others board aircraft. Pilot watches from window engines start. 06:01:53 INV 1366. Slate: 166th Signal Photo Company, Detachment 7, Lt. R.E. Furhman, Cameraman, Tech. Sgt. G. Myers. Subject: Prisoners, Concarneau, 8-19-44 / 19Aug44" 06:01:58 Four Sherman tanks modified w/ blades designed to cut through hedgerows uncovered; branches & netting removed. 06:02:18 Unmodified tanks past on road, GOOD CUs. Sherman tank firing thru hedge trees; different angles & distances. Excellent details of tank's hull and equipment. Tanks seen firing from a distance. 06:03:45 INV 1367. Slate: "166 Sig. Photo, Chartres, 23Aug44 De Gaulle, Cameraman: Sgt. Graham." 06:03:52 Overhead of crowd of French civilians & resistance fighters. Resistance fighters in the front wearing arm bands, some w/ German submachine guns. Flags of Free France & Allied powers hung from windows & street poles. MCUs. Crowd begins to cheer, French officers salute. CU of children, some w/ flowers; French Somua S-35 tank past; MCU French soldier talking w/ young female resistance fighter carrying German submachine gun. CUs. 06:04:37 French tank crewman hands field glasses to young woman. CU scarred Black African soldier smoking. 06:04:50 Slate: 23Aug44, De Gaulle." Large crowd rushes forward, General Charles De Gaulle onto podium, removes hat. Crowd cheers. De Gaulle speaks (MOS). Crowd shots, singing. 06:05:56 French civilian directing band. 06:06:00 INV 1368. Crowd applauding; LS De Gaulle speaking (MOS). People seen looking from windows, balcony. MS crowd singing, S soldiers saluting, band playing. 06:07:07 LS of Chartres Cathedral towers, tilt down to crowds; De Gaulle & military & civilian VIPs thru streets; past Resistance members w/ rifles at attention. MS De Gaulle & military VIP. 06:08:13 US soldier & resistance young soldier kneeling w/ rifles. Statue. 06:08:27 French women w/ young children in strollers talk on sidewalk. 06:08:34 Male & female resistance members walk w/ captured old woman. Boys hang lynching & beating Hitler photograph. Crowd in street; French staff car arrives. Boys w/ Hitler photo on pole. 06:09:16 North African soldiers seen marching (brief). Truck of German prisoners leaving Chartres. 06:09:48 Horse-drawn hearse thru street. Resistance youth w/ rifles led into Cathedral. Int. Catholic funeral service two coffins. Resistance honor guard w/ rifles leaving. Funeral procession thru street; resistance fighters flank the hearses. townspeople follow. 06:12:16 De Gaulle & official party thru cemetery. 06:12:27 Motorcade thru town streets, crowds wave. Sedan arrives front of sandbagged entrance of Chartre Cathedral. De Gaulle out & inside w/ crowd of French civilians. De Gaulle leaves the building. WW2 Fighting; Free French Resistance; Child Soldiers; Youth; FFI; FFL; NOTE: Chartres was liberated 18Aug44.