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WWII - 1945, USA Government Documentary: True Glory, The R5 of 9

Reel Number: 221747-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944-1945

Country: England,France,United Kingdom,USA

Location: Avranches,Lo,Rennes,St

TC Begins: 07:06:35

TC Ends: 07:14:09

Duration: 00:07:34

WWII - USA: European Historical Compilation, 1944-1945 R5 of 9 Montage: large artillery barrel hand cranked / elevated, fired; explosions; tanks & infantry past on road, MCUs. MS General Bradley in winter coat walking; aerial above twin-engine bombers, CU pilot, explosion clouds in railyard, troops walk along road past Saint-Lo sign, crouched by tank, close explosions, run thru ruins, search German PoW, house to house fighting, destroying town & run thru, wounded & dead, POWs. 07:07:51 Refugees return to rubbled St. Lo. Black tank corps rest by brick wall, clean tanks. 3rd Army tanks along road. 07:08:17 MS Gen. Patton, w/ pearl handled revolver, looking thru binoculars. 3rd Army tanks thru village w/ people waving & cheering. Prisoners of War walked thru village by FFI. Tanks greeted by throngs of people in Rennes, bells ring & crowd cheers & applauds etc. Dance in street. VERY GOOD sequence. 07:09:24 Map showing planned advance. Germans looking at map. German tanks, trucks & armored coumn along countryside road. Map focusing on Avranches. Burning village, burning Allied tank in field. Allied infantry on roadside, advance along lane, large explosion & pinned down by artillery fire near Mortain. 07:10:45 Montage: airfield on Normandy, RAF Typhoons on airstrip, British pilots run to planes, arming planes, take off. 07:11:19 American artillery, mortars, bazookas, tanks, etc fighting. Troops thru destroyed village. Map. 07:11:58 Montage: Germans laying communication wire, officers look at map. British & Americans prepare large guns, fuze bombs, machine gun shells onto fighter planes, bombs & rockets attached to wings. Planes take off, artillery raised, CUs GIs. Everything firing, planes, pilots, artillery, explosions. 07:13:36 Captured Germans soldiers run along road under guard, surrendering, planes overhead strafing roads, PoWs. View from air of burning fields & village. Wounded. Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon fighter planes overhead, strafing & bombing Nazi positions. Armored units roll toward Argentan under artillery support. WW2; Battles; Fighting; France; NOTE: VERY good sequences & picture quality. NOTE: Narration as first-person American & English troops.

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