WWII - 1944, France: Normandy Messenger Pigeons, Camera Repair; 2nd Armored Div & 4th Div in Combat

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944, France: Normandy Messenger Pigeons, Camera Repair; 2nd Armored Div & 4th Div in Combat 25Jul44 Flash slate: INV 818 Camera: Sykes, 25Jul44 Roll 2 Normandy, 1st Army Signal Coverage (cont.) US soldier laying on ditchbank, writing notes in small notebook, crawls to small pigeon case / cage. Puts note in capsule, CU. Removes bird & attaches. Roll 3. releases, kisses hand & waves goodbye. 13:44:01 Soldier w/ stick / branch by trailer / coop / cages guides pigeon inside. Soldier leaving coop, removes message from capsule. 13:44:21 Pigeon in flight. 13:44:30 Jeep arrives, gives message to soldier w/ radio telephone; MS cranking telephone on tree. R4 CU reading message into phone, hangs up. 13:45:16 View along dirt lane, jeep approaches, turns off. 13:45:39 MS camouflage covered outpost, soldier photographer w/ camera past & into command center. MS officer looking at camera shutter or lens. 13:46:06 Slate: 27Jul44 Sykes Roll 5. MCU man repairing shutter mechanism; uses eye piece & tweezers. MS. Refits on camera. GOOD. 13:47:14 Flash slate: same Roll 6. Soldier past walks into command post. given camera & leaves. 13:47:39 Soldier at table in tent look at photographs, puts in envelope & into “Finished Work” box, makes note. 13:48:06 Flash slate: Sykes 25Jul44 Roll 1. Men putting tarp on large stack of wooden crates; soldiers beside large wooden crates of cable. CU man working on top of electrical post w/ glass insulators. 13:48:33 Soldier w/ crate of two pigeons crawls to ditchbank, looks over & writes notes. 13:49:15 INV 819. Night, unid fire burning. 13:49:28 Tank leading two columns of men along gravel road; Two men beside sign: Danger, anti-pers. mines. Smoking M4 in hole in road after mine blast, jeeps & equipment behind; jeep, soldiers past. 13:50:06 Soldiers beside large tank in deep hole in road. German soldiers on German vehicle w/ Red Cross flag past tank wreck, US soldier on top w/ them. US soldiers around wreckage & helmets on ground. 13:50:35 US soldiers look at destroyed German vehicle beside large heavily damaged stone building w/ fire burning in rubble at base. Convoy of US vehicles & soldiers beside burning church. Medic treating wounded under overturned wagon , carry on stretcher & load onto ?? 13:51:23 LS towards burning town w/ soldiers & burning buildings. 13:51:28 US searching German officer . Prisoners of war /POWs walked off. 13:51:49 Rolls out of frame. 13:51:53 POV from tank past destroyed German tank. German soldiers w/ hands on head marched along road. 13:52:04 US infantry along road; past tank. German POW marched past. WW2; Post Normandy Invasion Communications; Signal Corps; Wounded; Medical Field Treatment; Horrors of War; NOTE: Part or entire sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk