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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221595-35
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1945
Country: France,Germany
Location: Colmar,Kolmar
TC Begins: 02:38:24
TC Ends: 02:41:01
Duration: 00:02:37
Through The Siegfried Line To The Rhine (1945) 02:38:30 GIs past building & sign: Kolmar 33 km, Wittenheim 2 km. Across snwo field w/ village behind. Street fighting, dead. Wounded helped; carried on stretcher, French Red Cross women & military ambulances 02:39:07 First French tanks into Kolmar. People out of building w/ armloads of bread, MCU. Women waving at passing tanks. 02:39:27 GIs in white ponchos thru heavy deep snow; mule pack train w/ crates. Mortars fired over heads of advancing troops. 02:40:06 Communications position in basement (?) on telephone & looking at maps for artillery orders. Heavy artillery firing, some beneath camouflage. Barrage w/ tanks & small artillery. 02:40:35 Prisoners marched dragging wounded. Grave markers for dead Germans. Tanks crossing dragon’s teeth of Siegfried Line. WWII Winter Weather; Battles; Fighting; Western Front; Note: Colmar Pocket fighting 20Jan-09Feb45 w/ French First Army & US XXI Corps against German Nineteenth Army. Colmar taken 02-03Feb45.