WWII - 1944/1945, West Front War Report Footage

WWII - 1944/1945, West Front War Report Footage VS troops & M-4 tanks move slowly through wrecked French town near German border; US infantry fight house to house; take prisoners. Snowbound airfield: pilot? on skis approaches plane; pilot in cockpit closes hatch; man digs snow from under wheels. US plane makes hasty landing, skids through snow towards camera and crashes into parked plane, man jumps clear. British tanks and infantry move through bombed German town, past sign ‘German Frontier MR77957S’; column of troops passes along road. Tanks in street fire, infantry run from house to house; German prisoners taken and marched down road to truck; German children watch soldiers pass. 05:20:58 Field Marshal Montgomery w/ US general? and in Jeep w/ British flag Operation Market Garden? 05:21:14 Intertitle: The Forgotten Front: Czechoslovakian troops test-fire captured German rocket launchers on wasteland. Canadian troops fire heavy artillery shells at farmhouse near Dunkirk. 05:22:34 Intertitle: Across the Rhine. Dispersed US troops move across open countryside, advance on Gelderon; US and British troops rest, greet each other and drink coffee; CU Royal Engineers badge. EXT German castle, US guards. German 60 rocket-tube launcher ‘The Pipe Organ’ driven away on top of tank w/ soldiers; rockets loaded; launcher tested in field. 05:25:10 US troops cross Ludendorff Bridge, Remagen; tanks, trucks and Red Cross vehicle follow; views of bombed village from bridge; CU sign ‘Cross the Rhine with dry feet courtesy of 9th Arm’d Div.’ Good. WW2; Winter;