Reel Number: H1577-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945
Country: Germany
Location: Rheydt,Rhine River
TC Begins: 10:23:37
TC Ends: 10:33:56
Duration: 00:10:19
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WWII - 1945, Germany: Presidential Unit Citation Streamer Award, Rheydt; 3rd Division Crosses Rhine. 25-26Mar45 Slate: 29th Infantry Division, 115 Regiment. Camera Raddatz 25Mar45 Roll 1. 10:23:40 Officers & men at attention in field; soldiers w/ colors & unit flags marching towards officers. CU officer attaching Presidential Unit Citation Streamer to flag. MS 2-Star General attaching. MLS officers return; CUs. 10:24:45 LS of units marching in review; military band playing. MCUs of passing soldiers; color guard. CU US flag. Saluting. German couple standing w/ bicycles watching, CUs posing. School children watching, soldiers marching past on road. MS of kids. 10:26:59 Slate: Same. Camera ??. 10:27:02 Band marching across field, troops at attention beyond. MCU officers saluting & placing streamer on flag staff, still photographer behind. Attaching streamer to Unit flag. CUs. 10:27:44 LS of field w/ assembled troops. MCU at attention. CUs. Ceremony. 10:29:01 LIB 4725. 10:29:03 Equipment & soldiers on Rhine riverbank in fog. Large timbers carried; assault boats adjusted in place, timbers placed for decking as barge; CUs clamps unloaded from truck & carried. 10:29:54 MS MPs on road in fog near sign; CU sign: Treadway Bridge w/ arrow. 10:30:10 Two soldiers beside barrels & motor generating smoke screen near country lane. GOOD 10:30:24 Storm boats & Assault boats crossing Rhine. 10:30:34 LS along dike w/ Storm boats & men preparing to cross, loading & leaving; crossing. LS, MSs, CU in boat crossing. Arriving against stone protected dike & men out of boat, over top of dike. Men into assault boat. 10:32:05 DUKW into down dike & into water. CUs. Crossing. 10:32:48 Sherman DD / Duplex Drive Tank aka Donald Duck w/ flotation screen lowered to river. 10:32:54 DUKW w/ troops crossing; into water. 10:33:12 DD tank w/ screen / skirt raised into water; crossing w/ other vehicles. 10:33:49 DUKW out of water up bank. WW2; Ceremonies;