WWII - 1944, France: St. Lo Battle & Street Fighting. 07-20Jul44

WWII - 1944, France: St. Lo Battle & Street Fighting. 07-20Jul44 INV 560. Slate: 16Jul44 roll 5. Camera: H. Riley. 29th Div near St. Lo. Tanks along country road passing parked tanks; pull up to farmhouse & tent bivouac. MCU tanks w/ anti-mine flails past. 10:54:29 INV 559. Photographers taking pictures of burning truck w/ howitzer attached. POV passing warehouse w/ windows broken. CU Red Cross on ambulance, pan to medics & soldiers talking; treating several wounded on stretchers & loading into half-track ambulance. 10:55:33 Slate: camera: Halloran . St. Lo. 10:55:37 Tanks, jeeps & equipment along road next to destroyed buildings; MCU photographer & others moving past. Armored car pulling up; troops & equipment waiting, moving. 10:56:35 INV 558. Soldiers w/ rifles up littered streets past parked tanks; past destroyed buildings looking for snipers. Door to door, into building. 10:57:22 Slate: 18Jul44. St. Lo Battle. 10:57:27 Patrol thru streets w/ smoking debris. Leveled buildings. German injured Prisoner of War w/ broken leg sitting, MCU on rubble; helped into US vehicle. GOOD. 10:58:22 INV 557. Slate: 17Jul44. Camera: Leiter. Task Force, 29th Division, St. Lo. 10:58:27 Jeep w/ medic racing past, destroyed equipment alongside road. Ambulance past. 10:58:38 Slate: same. 19Jul44. 10:58:40 Soldiers & equipment in St Lo streets; GIs hurry to vehicles, moving up; soldiers run past w/ rifles. 10:59:22 LS towards gutted large mansion , smoke rising behind & debris in front. 10:59:37 INV 556. 10:59:41 Soldiers bent-over, running past on country road w/ hedgerow behind; others walking past, dead on road & destroyed equipment. Rest beside road. Running from smoke of explosion. Walking alongside column of jeeps & M8 armored cars. 11:01:46 Destroyed St. Lo from inside building of passing armored cars; view up street w/ rubble. Smoke from explosions. Allied soldiers run past smoking bricks of collapsed buliding, along narrow street. 11:02:22 Soldiers dive under tank. Tank w/ bulldozer blade passing. WW2; Battles; NOTE: Good exposure & coverage.