Sieg Im Westen R5 of 12 (Victory In The West)

WWII - 1940, German Invasion Of Low Countries, Operation Gelb German tank formations firing from field & advance in regimental columns. Allied tanks attacking. MCU, two tanks (Allied) seen thru driver's slit. Allied tank advancing, firing. 05:47:31 MS, three Stukas peel off & dive; bombs hit the ground. 05:47:47 MS, Allied tank burns. LS, Allied tank regiment in attack formation. CU, French passenger car on fire, pan to Allied heavy tank being inspected by German soldier. CU German tank passes camera, one wounded soldier on tank. CU German wounded being placed into motorcycle sidecar. CU wooden sign "First Aid". CUs German wounded being tended. 05:48:39 Wrecked Allied tanks; German soldiers talk to French tank crew; face of wounded French tank driver. CU wrecked French tanks w/ holes thru armor plating. CU fallen French tank crew. CUs, wrecked British tanks in village street. 05:49:29 German Mercedes-Benz personnel carrier prime-moving 88mm dual purpose gun, other prime-moving anti-tank guns & one assault gun. 05:49:48 Animation of Maginot Line extension. 05:50:01 Anti-tank fortification - asparagus beds - of Maginot Line. 05:50:11 Animation of Maginot Line underground works & elevator system. 05:50:27 Frenchmen at machinery; MS, air conditioning, communication center switchboard of Line. Exterior & French troops in company formation out of barracks in double quick step, walk past giant pillbox. GOOD. 05:50:58 Operation of underground small-gauge railroad inside Maginot Line; POV. 05:51:27 Moving munitions on overhead track; storage bunkers. Kitchen, cooking; soldiers relaxing. 05:51:57 Montage w/ superimposed: "Nous Vaincrons Parce Que Nous Sommes Les Plus Forts" ("We shall gain Victory because we are the stronger ones"). 05:52;02 Animated map of Europe showing more than six hundred million are on the French side w/ French African Black troops & posters. England joined by Canada & Australia against Germany. Montage of troops marching. 05:53:25 Map of German attack west of Namur & Brussel; intercut w/ CU Colonel Rundstedt w/ aide in front of large map. Animation of position of armies of General V. Kluge, Gen. List & Gen. Busch & their breakthrus between Maubeuge & Sedan crossing the Meuse River; rapid advance to the channel coast to reach Abbeville. 05:54:05 German engineer troops build bridges across Meuse River under fire. Infantry moves rubber assault boats & crossing river. German Signal Corps men lay wire; all under fire. Soldiers laying planks for bridge. German cavalry and infantry crossing Meuse River in rubber rafts. German tank onto bridge. May40 Germany’s Operation Gelb; Nazis; Holland; WW2; France; NOTE: Sound track poor.