WWII - 1945, Germany: 9th Division Near Speinshart; 79th Div. Rhine River Crossing 23-24Mar45

WWII - 1945, Germany: 9th Division Near Speinshart; 79th Div. Rhine River Crossing 23-24Mar45 9th Infantry Division passing destroyed tank; moving single file up mountain road, up mountainside path. View past tank overlooking mountain valley w/ small stream. 10:13:41 Men at machine gun, CU sighting. Men on road past destroyed tank. 10:14:09 GIs building Bailey Bridge, carry metal girder sections, push sections into place, add more pounding pins. LS Collapsed bridge next to new bridge frame being extended. CUs. GOOD. 10:16:22 Slate: Rhine Crossing. 24Mar45. 10:16:24 Trucks hauling inflatable bridge pontoons past on foggy road; jeeps & traffic both direction. 10:16:51 Trucks w/ rubber pontoons along farm lane off highway. 10:17:08 Troops along country road thru village. MCU MPs sitting by signs: Baker Beach - wheeled vehicles; Baker Beach - tracked vehicles. 10:17:34 German prisoners of war marched along rural road, passed by LVT. MCU POWs. 10:18:12 LS LVTs along lane & across farm field. River dike, soldiers watching earth moving, vehicle onto ??; LS of amphibious vehicles crossing Rhine River. River bank shots, LVTs sitting w/ troops. Soldiers along dike, LVT thru cut in bank. Vehicles in water; troops across field to dike. Truck pulling artillery thru cut in dike, onto barge of Assault Boats. 10:20:59 MCU Medic in deep foxhole (dead?) 10:21:01 MCU GI on radio telephone on riverbank. Soldiers on vehicle, down bank to raft of assault boats; artillery pulled by small truck. 6x6 . 10:21:20 Baker Beach signs, troops past w/ drums of cable, weapons, etc. 10:21:40 Tanks, LVTs waiting near cut in dike; passing. German POWs marching, talking MCU. 10:22:27 Smoke / fog machine w/ empty drums, laying smoke screen. CU generated smoke billowing; smoke out of buckets. GOOD. WW2; 23Mar45;