American 1st Army - Aachen To The Roer River R1 of 4

American 1st Army - Aachen To The Roer River R1 of 4 Aerial over city w/ destruction. Ground destruction w/ heavy damage, destroyed railroad station, power plant & natural gas facilities. GIs putting up signs, looking at telephone diagrams, hidden food moved to refuge camp. Happy civilians carrying belongings, showing papers to MPs. Sign Mausbach (internment camp). People moving along muddy street. 01:28:46 GIs relaxing, clean rifle, write graffitti on NSDAP Hitler-Jugend sign, feed calf. Grinding coffee & mess line w/ hot food. Troops in by truck, line into Hotel Koener; climbing steps under stone aqueduct (?). 01:29:24 Artillery firing along rural front, artillery firing at village. Church steeple burning. Map showing showing break-out plan for 28th Div., from Huertgen Forest toward roadways to Cologne. Soldiers building roads w/ large boards & trees w/ jeeps along completed road. Troops camped in tents, cooking & drying clothes. 28Nov44 men move thru woods, firing rifles & machine guns. Smoke from forest, troops march past camera w/ mine detectors, field packs & ??. 01:31:41 GIs along road watch POWs marched past to trucks; other questioned while smoking in MS; sign 200,000th Prisoner of War hung on POW. Camouflaged artillery firing, shells loaded & fired. Men climb abandoned tower install phone lines to turn into observation post. View from top, spotter telescope. Tanks in woods below firing. 01:33:08 Small bulldozer moving snow on field. CU of soldier driving. Men put up wooden trench protectors in snowfall. Pulling up camouflage netting w/ snow on top.. Men in heavy mud. Guns covered under snowy camouflage net. Note: Aachen taken 21Oct44 after six week battle. WWII Fighting; Battles; Winter Weather; Cold; WW2; 1944;