Road To Kaiserlautern And Mannheim, Germany; Artillery Shelling, Schweigen, Germany, 20Mar45

Slate: LIB 4426; Line of M3 halftracks w/ troops sitting on road; view of German POWs marched in opposite direction. 11:38:19 Tank on road w/ men watching w/ binoculars town in distance & smoke; soldiers in army truck parked on road watching smoke rising from woods on hilltop beyond houses. 11:38:48 CU sign at town entrance: Brucken ? Kusel; tank past. Town street w/ women & children watching arriving tanks parked. Men and boys around jeep waving; some boys waving white flags to camera. 11:39:12 Woman throwing cookie to tank crew. Civilians marched past tanks w/ hands on heads. 11:39:25 M3 & jeep convoy along tree lined road; across field; tanks moving on fields & into town w/ damaged houses. People watching & waving white flags. GOOD shots women on balcony w/ white flags. 11:40:30 Slate. Picket fence w/ direction signs: Kaiserlautern 42 km; Opposite direction: Breitenbach. Tanks & M-3 past signs chalked w/ + & T. Thru town / village entrance gat; across farm fields. 11;41:28 Line of vehicles thru town w/ buildings lining wide street; past burning truck frame / wreckage. 11:41:51 Tanks around corner lined w/ brick / stone rubble. Parked near railroad. Black slug. 11:42:11 Parked jeeps & tank in town; soldier on tank firing. Soldiers slowly forward. 11:42:24 Slate. Jeeps move along railroad tracks. 11:42;31 Tank past large surrender flag by town gates, people waving caps. Jeeps & convoy leaving past damaged wagons, dead man draped over side of wagon behind dead horse; M-3 past. MS sign: Kaiserlautern 7 km. 11:43:05 LIB 4407 2-star general (chewing gum) & other officers & soldiers talking to German officer. CU w/ tag Prisoner of War, CU arm band: Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht. Walks off. VERY GOOD. 11:43:52 LS of village (Schweigen, Germany, 20Mar45 ?) w/ smoke rising, Explosions & fires. WW2 Advancing Allies; WWII; German POWs; NOTE: GOOD picture quality & coverage of advance in Germany, Spring 1945.