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WWII - 1944, France: 3rd Division Push At Le Ganet, France. 20Aug44

Reel Number: 250087-18

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944

Country: France,Poland

Location: Le Ganet

TC Begins: 05:16:39

TC Ends: 05:26:08

Duration: 00:09:29

3rd Division Infantry soldiers passing camera; passing smoking USA tank. CU damaged machine gun etc. jeep & column along road, medic standing beside wounded or dead body beside road as another soldier looks at damaged metal part. 05:17:28 Two troop columns advance along roadsides; machine gunner on jeep. Local women & boys cheering passing military vehicles in village. Village woman pours wine into men’s glasses on ambulance. CUs Waving to GIs. GOOD. 05:18:51 Troops talk beside road w/ officer. Two prisoners taken, CUs. Soldiers & French Resistance thru town. 05:19:38 Woman leaning into large shell hole at base of window, smoke inside house destroyed by bomb. 05:19:58 Men searching inside bombed house w/ shovels & hands; carry out ashes / coals. 05:21:06 French w/ resistance flags march thru village street w/ raised V-signs. GOOD. Crowded street & waving as two cars try to get thru. 05:21:30 Women collaborators marched out by Resistance. US, French Resistance & other flags on poles in crowd w/ French police. Kids on lamp posts waving small flags. Mass of people. 05:22:07 Man marched out at pistol point thru crowd. High angle down on cheering crowd. GI soldiers waving from balcony seen from behind. CUs. Resistance riding on coal burning car thru street. 05:23:01 Collaborators out of van, head jerked around. Man w/ pistol moves prisoner thru. Collaborator w/ bloody nose marched thru. HA over cheering crowd. 05:23:53 MCU two men w/ pistols on top of car waving. Soldier passing out Lucky Strike cigarettes. Crowd seen behind burning barbed wire & wood barricade. Army trucks w/ soldiers pulling small trailers past working fountain & crowd. Tanks & jeeps passing. 05:25:03 Two German prisoners questioned by GI. CUs, searching; French policeman watching. Led along country lane, across field

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