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France, Le Havre Wrecked Docks, Bunkers & City Buildings (1946)

Reel Number: 221210-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1946

Country: France

Location: Le Havre

TC Begins: 04:34:15

TC Ends: 04:38:01

Duration: 00:03:46

France, Le Havre Wrecked Docks, Bunkers & City Buildings (1946) Wrecked concert buildings in Port of La Havre. Liberty ship John Catron entering harbor beyond. Horse cart pulling wagon thru mounds of rubble. Man walking along stone wall; another digging at roadside passed by US Army truck. 04:35:30 Bomb damaged area leveled. Prisoners working cleaning up. LS of Le Havre showing much of town bombed out. Church steeple in foreground, harbor in background. Traffic moving around ruins. 04:36:26 Dump truck unloading bricks stockpiled for later use. LS of traffic thru destroyed area after cleanup. Dynamite explosion of German bunkers. Workers finishing clean-up w/ jack-hammers. Loading into railroad car. POW workers heating lunch pails over fire. Post-War; Post-WWII Rebuilding; French Government Reconstruction; Transportation; Shipping

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