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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221548-07
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945
Country: Germany
Location: Moselle River,Zweibrucken
TC Begins: 15:55:40
TC Ends: 16:06:35
Duration: 00:10:55
WWII - 1945, Germany: US Soldiers thru burning Zeibrucken, ca 20May45; Moselle River crossing ca 15Mar45 LIB 4408 20May45 30th Regt., 3rd Division soldiers walking thru Zeibrucken w/ destruction. Rubble & burned out buildings; fire still burning, heavy smoke. 15:56:37 Fiercely burning building, troops walk past; resting in rubble of smoking town. 15:57:38 Tank w/ soldiers riding past & thru town. Women watching from windows on street; family & old men watch; stare at camera. 15:58:44 Large group of civilian men, women & children walking towards camera w/ white flag w/ red cross; past American tanks & soldiers. 15:59:30 Tanks away from camera, soldiers waving. Soldiers marching behind. Street w/ heavy wreckage & burning buildings as troops past. GOOD. 16:01:06 Troops walking past burning houses, several cows w/ them. Jeep & tanks follow. 16:02:04 LIB 4285 15Mar45 87th Division crossing Moselle River arriving in outboard boats & onto shore. POV on boat reaching shore, up bank. Soldiers w/ binoculars looking. Man drives jeep onto platform on three flat bottom boats, leaving shore past sunken boat. 16:04:03 Men carry crates past & load into boats; arriving on east shore & unloading by freed slave laborers, carried up bank & loaded on jeep w/ machine gun. Boats upstream; 735th Tank Battalion M-5 tanks thru mud on shore; onto large group of flatbottom boats & moved into river towards opposite shore. WW2; Fighting;