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Go to HomepageReel Number: 300322
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1940s,1939,1930s
Country: Belgium,Germany
Location: Ieper sign,Ostend,Tournai
TC Begins: 01:00:05
TC Ends: 01:05:17
Duration: 00:05:12
WWII - 1940, Germany: Invasion of Belgium - Tournai & Ostend German infantry cross narrow footbridge on pontoons & cross field; approaching Tournai, Belgium. LS fo city, street fighting in suburbs; wounded soldier recovered. Burning buildings, rubble & destroyed equipment. 01:01:39 Belgium officers w/ surrender flag. Belgium HQ w/ officers surrendering to German officers. CU talking; MS signing documents. Town center, troops under German guard, marched out of town smiling & waving. Wounded treated by German military medics. Rifles thrown on pile. 01:03:06 LS High Angle / HA of refugees w/ carts, etc crossing pontoon bridge next to demolished concrete bridge. Germans help push overloaded wagon; rear shot of refugees leaving town. German soldiers carry baby in baby buggy & pass out food. GOOD MCUs. 01:03:42 Map showing refugees advance from Antwerp toward Paris & German advance encircling & pushing back movement toward Dunkirk. 01:03:53 German troops crossing canal near Belgium coast & arrive at Ostend, bombed by naval shelling. Heavy damage; destroyed railroad station & equipment. London - Oostende ferry terminal; harbor scenes w/ Germans wheeling light artillery into place; sandbagged positions overlooking harbor. 01:04:37 German troops along road, cross canals on bridges & floating pontoon bridges. Road sign: 2 k Ieper; Artillery firing from camouflaged positions WW2 Tournai Invaded; Prisoners of War; POWs; Damage; German Propaganda; 1940s; NOTE: In our experience German Nazi era material is considered in the public domain throughout the world. If users feel any further clearances are necessary they are to be their own responsibility.