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American 1st Army - Aachen To The Roer River R2 of 4

Reel Number: 221245-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1944

Country: Belgium,France,Germany,Luxembourg,Luxemburg

Location: Huertgen Forest,Liege,Luxembourg,Stolberg

TC Begins: 01:34:10

TC Ends: 01:40:07

Duration: 00:05:57

American 1st Army - Aachen To The Roer River R2 of 4 Aerials over 1st Army supply depot in Liege. POWs working; Communication center installed, lines strung & put up. Tanks, Luxembourg Steel Works working run by US Corps of Engineers, checking beams & on railcars; sawmills run by engineers - timbers moved. Repairing bridges in Belgium. Railroad across temporary bridge. 01:35:38 People walking & army jeeps & trucks across bridge over river Meuse. Men w/ sledge hammers repairing & adapting tank tracks for mud. Aerial over Siegfried Line & tank w/ dozer blade covering dragon’s teeth tank traps w/ dirt for crossing points; rebuilding trucks. 01:36:18 Snow over roads & villages. Truck convoys thru storm on muddy road. Map showing 16Nov44 1st Army strike by 1st Infantry & 3rd Armored Div. towards Mausbach; 104th Div. toward Stolberg. British camouflaged barrage balloons being filled & hoisted; bombers over seen from ground & air; aerials of bombing by US & RAF of Duren on Roer River. Huge fires & smoke. 01:38:19 Ground forces readied w/ 104th Div briefed & moving up for attack on Stolberg. Thru woods on foot; assault guns (tanks) in edge of forest firing. Heavy destruction & US wounded soldiers removed. Heavy debris. German woman’s wounds tended by US medics. WWII Fighting; Battles; Winter Weather; Cold; Huertgen Forest; WW2; 1944;

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