WWII - 1944, Belgium: Bastogne, Winter Battle, Dec44 R1 of 2

WWII - 1944, Belgium: Bastogne, Winter Battle, Dec44 Titles. 11:22:11 Lt. Clair Hess sitting in screening room speaks to camera, projectionist visible in booth behind. 101st Airborne Division / Screaming Eagles introduced for activities at Bastogne. 11:22:46 Projector starts. 11:22:50 Soldier pounding in Recreation sign in front of tents. MCU soldiers, CU one-star General Anthony McAuliffe talking. Men loading magazine / clips & rifles; equipment issued; walking & boarding 6x6 trucks, CUs of faces. 11:23:29 Night w/ truck lights in convoy. 11:23:25 Day, tank past. MCU & CUs of stereotyped Nazi soldiers fighting beside hedgerows, burning US equipment beside road w/ German troops past. 11:23:51 Illustration encircled Bastogne, pull back to show location in Belgium, animation of Germany oozing towards & around Bastogne. 11:24:02 Refugees walking along foggy road past Allied soldiers. Armored vehicles past w/ ice on tree & road as GI searches civilian & checks papers. MPs checking American dogtags. 11:24:26 Heavy ice & snow on trees & power lines, blowing snow w/ troops huddling around guns. Fighting in snow-covered fields. GOOD. 11:25:11 City scene w/ snow & burned out buildings. CU burning tank, wreckage of truck. Dead in snow & frozen body picked up. 11:25:31 MCU Machine gun position dug into snow, others fighting in field w/ rifles & bazookas. 11:25:57 Hess talking to camera in theater. 11:26:16 Night firing of German artillery w/ tracers; daytime rockets fired. Daytime & US riflemen in snow. Wounded in field in front of gunner. 11:27:01 Priest leading Mass under trees, praying. 11:27:14 Silhouetted soldiers; burning tank; formation of C47s & gliders overhead. Gliders landing. POV from glider to C-47 dropping cable. Many planes over low, GIs watching. Parachutes descending w/ cargo resupplying. Gathered. Gliders on field covered w/ light snow. Unloading from nose. 11:29:11 Night, firing artillery. Day & dead Germans. Prisoners of War / POWs captured. CUs. 11:29:59 Military band thru streets leading 101st AB marching thru town on snow. Reviewd under sign: Bastogne Bastion of the Battered Bastards of the 101st. Marching troops. 11:30:27 Hess to camera. 11:30:46 High angle of airmen of 9th Troop Carrier Command who arrived w/ supplies. MCU Maj. General Phllip L.Williams in glider. Crews & pilots walking past C-47s. Pilots looking at maps. Colonlal Joe Crouch speaking at briefing, others named & looking at camera. 11:31:11 Hess to camera as lights come up in projection room. WW2; Battle of the Bulge; Fighting; Weather; Excellent exposure & sequences.