WWII - 1944, France: Railroad Reconstruction, Fougeres; 2nd Armored Div, Paris; Battle, Elbeuf . 24-25Aug44

WWII - 1944, France: Railroad Reconstruction, Fougeres; 2nd Armored Div, Paris; Battle, Elbeuf . 24-25Aug44 INV 1454. Slate: Camera: Pvt Howe, Aug44. Blacks w/ bulldozer pushing passenger carriage across rubble in railroad yard; CUs of wheels. French workers or German POWs help get it onto rails. CU attaching to small engine. Other large railroad freight cars moved between trains in yard. 10:14:00 Men digging w/ shovels & wheelbarrow around debris & train car & dumping. Overhead shot of train thru yard w/ filled flatcars. LS of workers & heavily damaged yards. Gutted ornate station. Collapsed & twisted metal against locomotive engine. Clearing debris. 10:15:50 Work crew w/ pry bars resetting rails. Pushing freight cars by hand. Laying ties & rails. 10:16:21 Overhead pan of roundhouse platform & workmen. 10:16:34 INV 1455. Crowd tearing down barricade; CUs women holding small crying baby & cheering; pan. POV in US military convoy / column thru street of cheering crowd. 10:16:50 Slate: Shelton . Street w/ barricade of sandbags & ?? on large avenue. Tank in street firing up street w/ large gun & machine guns. 10:17:41 Shot down on medical workers w/ stretcher & white flag moving up street. LS from upper floor of heavy smoke rising nearby from ornate building tops. 10:17:53 Two men in white smocks waving medical flags in front of others carrying stretchers w/ wounded. 10:18:11 Two tanks on sidewalk & street firing. French man in tank firing; other French tanks. Other shots firing up side street. 10:19:43 INV 1456 White smoke rising from several places across small town, multiple shots. 10:20:58 Slate: Camera, Shannon. 25Aug44. Reel 1 Location: Elboerr aka Elbeuf . Shelling German Positions. 10:21:03 Overhead of men in ditch behind wall firing mortars; smoke rising in town. Tank backing down road. Dark smoke rising from town / village. GI w/ rifle to end of fence; medic running w/ others while carrying wounded GI over shoulder. CU on ground treating. CU firing mortar & treating wounded behind. Wounded onto stretcher & carried past, MCU. Loaded into US Army ambulance & leaving. WW2; Fighting; Horrors of War; Injured; NOTE: Good quality photographer & interesting shots.