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WWII - 1944, Dunkirk Return, Netherlands Advance & French Ports

Reel Number: 220992-13

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944

Country: Belgium,France,Germany,Netherlands

Location: arnhem,Brest,Calais,Dunkirk,fort breendonk,Nijmegen

TC Begins: 05:48:29

TC Ends: 05:59:27

Duration: 00:10:58

WWII - 1944, Dunkirk Return, Netherlands Advance & French Ports 1944 Circa Oct44 ‘Return To Dunkirk’ British ‘concrete buster’ heavy gun fired; 200lb shells loaded; CUs gun fired. Red Cross vehicles at Dunkirk during 48hr truce granted by Canadian Brigade Major to allow civilians to evacuate before attack; Major w/ French? officer; civilians pass checkpoint w/ belongings; British soldiers help evacuees. Dunkirk beach littered w/ equipment from 1940 retreat. 05:51:35 ‘Advance In Low Countries’ VS civilians commemorate dead at liberated Breendonk concentration camp, Belgium; flag raised, women weep as they lay flowers under execution stakes; man points to bloodstains on wall. Dutch refugees in Nijmegen sent by Germans into path of Allied advance. British tanks cross German frontier; border posts and white flag; tanks cross bridge. Soldiers who survived Arnhem operation pose for cameras, cheer. Gen. Urquhart arrives by plane. 05:54:20 ‘Allies Clear French Ports’ RAF fighter planes fly over English Channel, fire on German ships; MS plane flying low over water. AVs US and RAF planes attack enemy positions on Dutch coast, fire on rural buildings. Clocktower and bombed buildings at Calais; soldier inspects abandoned German flamethrower. AV ruins of Brest; medics carry wounded German soldiers on stretchers out of concrete bunker complex; German PoWs herded into enclosure; bombed submarine pens; AV bombing of port. WW2;

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