WWII - 1945, Germany: 1st Army Advance, Announcing Military Government To Citizens 06-08Mar45

WWII - 1945, Germany: 1st Army Advance, Announcing Military Government To Citizens 06-08Mar45 06Mar45 (per card) Slate: Camera, T3 Hedrich, 165th First Army. 311th Regt, 78th Div assigns homes to refugees pulling carts on rainy Laumersheim (?) street. US soldiers watching & gesturing to them. 17:00:33 US Army jeeps past wrecked buildings. US troops ride past on bicycles. 17:00:57 MLS & MS Marching POWs past camera. 774th Tank BN past & through town in rain; drenched soldier in jeep. Soldiers & civilians in windows of 2nd floor watch & wave. Tanks through streets w/ camouflage. Surrender flag on pole in upper window. Sign: Bonn, 25 km. GI on horse past building w/ Flamersheimer Hof sign over doorway. Patrolling street. GI into yard, CU inspects pile of helmets. 17:03:34 Tank column loaded w/ GIs on country road. Medics & jeep. 17:04:36 Slate: 07Mar45 Camera: Sgt Newman R1 9th Div. M-4 tanks & 2nd Bn, 39th Regt, 9th Division infantry on muddy road, entering Luftelburg; people watch from second floor window. Tanks & troops beside large house w/ surrender flag prepare for for attack on Bad Godesberg. 17:05:44 08Mar45 (per card). Sign: Bonn 18km, many prisoners behind & MS of POWs guarded by US troops of 309th Rgt., 78th Div in Geldorf (per card). MCUs US troops & German soldiers, some young. 17:06:51 Slate: Hedrich 165 1st Army. Assembling civilians in center of Altendorf to hear message from military government w/ German man half-heartedly ringing bell & US officers w/ papers which are read by German. MS Germans listening. CU sign: Ahrweiler (Germany ); Low Angle / LA old stone wall over street entrance w/ large swastika. Soldiers & vehicles thru town & wall. Street w/ rubble & damaged buildings. Two women watch from front of old house. WW2; Prisoners of War; Occupation; Weather; 1940s;