WWII - France Scenes After German Attack, Forbach & Sarreguemines, ca 1940

WWII - France Scenes After German Attack, Forbach & Sarreguemines, ca 1940 LS across town w/ several hills behind, deserted street, barriers across. Store fronts w/ window glass blown out onto pavement. Stone church w/ monument in front & clocks. Damage from bomb on stone steps of church. Smoke in street from explosion. 11:08:38 Houses w/ roofs burned off; destroyed shed beside building. View towards bombed buildings & collapsed railroad bridge blocking street, two soldiers run across street. Heavily damaged buildings, view out from inside past destroyed windows. 11:09:16 View of empty streets, damage. Soldiers walking & two ride on bicycle for two thru street. Others at base of sandbagged walls & barriers of timber & cobblestones. Officer talking to men. View from inside machine gun position. CU man taking grenades out of box. Men w/ machine gun moving. Soldiers running along front of house w/ rifles, up embankment. Lying on ground w/ rifles. View across valley & large town. 11:10:59 POV down hill along empty street from car; across steel bridge over empty railroad tracks. POV along residential street w/ heavy brick & stone debris from roofs on sidewalk. View fo damaged roofs. 11:12:20 Collapsed bride blocking river. Old locomotive in shed. River thru debris from collapsed bridge, heavily damaged houses beside road. High angle. 11:13:22 Soldier in street in machine gun position, laying on mattress playing keyboard harp. Soldiers beside tall wall of sandbags across road. MCU man looking thru periscope binoculars. More French soldiers waiting behind barriers; inside lookout post. View behind machine gun pointed up road. 11:15:01 PoV along country road, soldiers walking w/ horses pulling trees. men unspooling barbed wire along stream bank & men building tank traps by hammering pilings w/ ropes. Carry tree branches for camouflage into town. 11:16:09 Men digging deep trench w/ shovels; MS laying mines in field, removing fuse. WWII France; ca 1940; Destruction; Defenses;