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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221245-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: Belgium,France
Location: Gravelotte,Liege,Metz,Meuse River,Searing,Sprimont
TC Begins: 01:09:46
TC Ends: 01:20:05
Duration: 00:10:19
WWII Belgium Fighting, ca 07Sep44 Slate: INV 1780 Tanks up Meuse River bank & crossing on pontoon bridge w/ Liege in background. CU of tracks onto bridge, 09Sep44. View across river w/ bridge in distance. Half track loaded w/ soldiers down riverbank as townspeople watch, jeeps follow, POV of vehicle crossing looking back at truck following & town behind. 01:11:42 Slate: INV 1781 09Sep44 60th Rgt. activity near Sprimont, Belgium. Soldiers walking across field w/ farm buildings beyond & town on hill. Burning German truck on town street, CU tires burning. Tank up road toward camera. Spaniel dog barking. Jeeps passing tanks loaded w/ GIs on street, townspeople watch, pass camera. People wave. 01:12:49 Slate: 60th Rgt Activity. Tank & bulldozer across large wooden bridge w/ town behind. Pedestrians walking alongside. Sign: Trooz 12 km, Dolembreux 6 km. Tanks past, people watching, women waving. Soldiers stopped in rural road watching ahead w/ binoculars. Soldiers stopped alongside gravel road, single file along both sides. 01:13:55 Slate: INV 1782 08Aug44 Tanks at Saizerais. Shote by 166th Signal Corps Photo Co. Prisoners marched thru field w/ hands above head. Tank parked by hedgerow; tanks across field. Men on top smoking. Bodies under tarps on stretchers in field. Group of German prisoners marched across field followed by jeep & tank. 01:15:05 Slate: INV 1783 View along dirt road w/ tanks alongside firing, dust blowing. 01:15:32 Slate: INV 1784 Men & women standing in front of heavily damaged buildings as US tanks & GIs past. Soldiers along streets in doorways & fighting. Given orders. Civilians carry wounded civilian. Soldier waves truck to stop; tanks welcomed into village by women & kids waving; hand shaking. One woman holds US flag & waves to soldiers on jeeps & in trucks. 01:17:48 Slate: INV 1785 7th Armored Division, Gravelotte, France 07Sep44 (could be 09Jul44) Rainbow in distance beyond tanks & trucks parked in field w/ medical truck. Wounded tended on ground by ruined jeep, put on stretcher, carried off. Another badly wounded treated. WW2 Medical; 1944;