WWII -France, 1944:

00:00:09 Titles 00:00:37 “Armistice Day in France” 00:00:41 US troops march down French street in Compiegne, crowds on both sides. US and French soldier/police salute during 2 minutes of silence. School children/scouts hold flags as officials lay wreath. 00:01:42 Europes largest cemetery, Meuse-Argone burial grounds. US officer/general makes speech on steps of chapel watched by crowds. US soldiers plays bugle (Last Post?) by graves. 00:02:12 Intertitle: Allies advance in mud and snow 00:02:17 US soldiers tread through thick mud. Artillery pushed through mud by struggling soldiers. Jeep tows soldiers on mud rake. 00:02:56 Artillery/machine-guns fired at night. Bullets flying over country lane towards German position in woods. “Start of the Winter War”. 00:03:17 LS of destroyed bridge in snow. US jeeps (Patton’s troops) drive across bridge. 00:03:28 US soldier climbing down telephone/power pole in snow. Soldiers at anti-aircraft artillery in snow storm. 00:03:44 “Death of the Tirpitz” 00:03:48 RAF Air Chief Marshall Harris at desk, huge map of Europe on wall behind. 00:04:00 Lancaster bombers (29) take off to go hunt Tirpitz. 00:04:23 Hitler and German officers and launch of Tirpitz in 1939. Crew give nazi salute from deck. Woman gives speech in German and smashes champagne bottle on hull. irpitz launched as Hitler watches. 00:05:29 Lancaster bombers flying from air. Aerial of Norwegian fjord. Lancasters drop smoke-screens on shore and “earthquake” bombs on Tirpitz. Ship blows up. 00:06:32 “Trapped battalion relieved” 00:06:38 Aerial of Vosges. US troops at artillery under camouflage. Fire artillery to relive trapped 36th Texas Division in hills. CU medical supplies and rations packed in shell then fired at trapped battalion by artillery. 00:07:32 US troops of 442nd Infantry Division (Americans of Japanese ancestry volunteers) in woods. Fire machine-gun. Germans taken prisoner, walk by tank. 00:08:14 Trapped battalion relieved and walking through woods to meet 442nd. Smile and shake hands. Jeep drives past carrying wounded/dead. 00:08:44 US soldier shows bullet hole of his rifle. Soldier warm themselves up by fire, eat rations, “thousand yard stare”. 00:09:08 Soldiers climb aboard jeep and drive off. 00:09:23 Soldiers carry stretcher in woods. Tank in background. Soldier relax in woods, wounded being treated. CU perfusion. Japanese-American (442nd?) soldier being treated for head wound with much blood on bandages. 00:09:46 Soldiers give gun salute, 442nd soldier plays trompette as others salute in background. Military funeral. End.