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Go to HomepageReel Number: H1640-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: France,USA
Location: Angers,La Vire,Malo,St
TC Begins: 10:34:15
TC Ends: 10:44:17
Duration: 00:10:02
WWII - 1944, France: Liberation of Angers; La Vire Reoccupation; St. Malo Fortifications 09-11Aug44 INV1199. Slate: DET #6, Cameraman R. Breedlove. One-legged young man tearing down large sign on lamp post. LS up tree-lined street (Angers?) w/ small rocks & debris, pedestrians. 10:34:40 Men taking out broken glass & photographs from display case: Service des Actualites; people watch other German signs taken down. Burning Nazi swastika flag & pictures of Hitler. 10:35:26 Slate: Camera: Raia. Troops walk & jog up cobblestoned street in residential area; past larger buildings. Cross bridge. Up out of crater at intersection onto bridge; past burning shop & firemen hosing building down. Free French move towards large cathedral w/ spires. 10:37:01 Outside St. Malo fortifications, troops entering across moat, people watching. Soldiers moving across large intersection; rest outside fortifications. 10:37:38 Slate: Camera: Lt. Freeman. One-legged man taking down sign, people watching. Street view w/ bicyclists. Civilians waving to camera. Men & boys taking glass & photos. More taking down signs. 10:38:46 Slate: Camera: Breedlove. Soldiers moving along wall, cross bridge. Civilians on bridge. Firemen lay hoses. 10:39:26 LS Arched Roman bridge over river. Soldiers crossing bridge. Slate: Breedlove. Soldiers onto bridge carry ammo boxes & jog w/ rifles up cobblestone street. Past buildings. Crouched alongside on narrow street. Pssing firemen hosing factory or warehouse. 10:41:23 Entering St. Malo fortification. Civilians & military pose. 10:41:44 INV 1209. LS across city rooftops from hilltop. MCU damaged flying buttresses of ??. Roadside sign: La Vire N177. Military vehicles thru destroyed city. Army truck hauling rock. 10:42:53 INV 1155 Mouth of shored up cave w/ German POWs sitting in sun. Allied soldiers looking at German clothes & equipment laying outside. View of rock quarry. 10:43:34 Slate: 10Jul44 St. Malo. Lt. Moore. Sandbagged entrance to mine w/ narrow gauge tracks. Debris, & CUs of opening in sandbags. View of interior & entrance. LS. NOTE: Good quality photographer & interesting shots. Covered of same events from several cameras.