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WWII - 1945, German: 26th Div. (Yankee Division) Motorized Infantry On West Bank of Rhine, Mainz Sector South, 23Mar45; City of Bad Kreuznach, 23Mar45

Reel Number: 221343-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Germany,USA

Location: Bad Kreuznach,GAU,Odernheim,Rhine River

TC Begins: 19:00:05

TC Ends: 19:10:39

Duration: 00:10:34

26th Div. (Yankee Division) Motorized Infantry On West Bank of Rhine, Mainz Sector South, Germany, 23Ma45 Troops & trucks parked outside houses w/ white surrender flags in small town. Packing trailer, infantry marching up, followed by jeep. Men standing smoking, one takes notes, people watch from windows. Good shot marching away from camera. Boarding trucks. Convoy of trucks & men pulling small guns past camera. Tanks past. 19:03:17 Road sign: Gau-Odernheim w/ trucks past in convoy. Tank past. Entering through barricade into village; uphill w/ dust past farm houses. 19:05:47 Sign w/ arrows: Gau-Odernheim 6 km; Worrstadt 3 km. 19:06:11 City of Bad Kreuznach, Germany, 23Mar45 View across small city in valley from hilltop. Large building w/ heavy fence of vertical posts; jeep in, horse-drawn wagon out. 19:07:18 Railyard w/ burned out railcars, twisted rails; street w/ heavily damaged houses & stores. Wine barrels. 19:08:11 CU sign: Bad Kreuznach Reg-Bez-Koblenz Jeep toward camera on gravel tree-lined road. Details of bombed out brick houses & bomb craters. Man & woman walk past camera; army vehicles past. 19:09:20 Women pulling wagons, old men w/ bags & briefcases past camera. Moving household goods past wreckage. Standing on sidewalk reading postings on walls. Jeeps & trucks past. Moving furniture on wagons. Defeated WW2 Refugees; Bomb Damage;

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