WWII - 1945, Magdeburg, German Shelled; Task Force “K”, Halle, Germany, 18Apr45

WWII - 1945, Magdeburg, German Shelled; Task Force “K”, Halle, Germany, 18Apr45 LIB 5777 Slate: McClure. CU sign: Magdeburg - 7 km. Large artillery beneath camouflage net, behind dike or embankment, fired. MCUs. Slate: 17Apr45 Shelling Magdeburg. McClure. Artillery fired w/ barrel recoiling & smoking. CU order to fire given by man on field telephone. Gunner sighting. MCU & CUs of fuzing shells, loading & firing process. GOOD. 11:08:54 Slate: same. Two large artillery in field firing, loading. 11:09:36 Large tracked vehicle / ammunition carrier approaching down road, two soldiers on road gesture it off into field. Men unload powder & shells. It heads across to other gun emplacement. 11:10:36 Slate: 18Apr45, Magdeburg Captured. CU sign, Magdeburg. Soldiers walking in empty street, tank along street past damaged buildings. Jeeps past rubble along street. Statue & destroyed buildings. 11:11:17 Aerial over city w/ mostly buildings gutted; spires of cathedral. Smoking ruins. View into destruction. 11:11:41 Slate: same. US soldier posing at base of Bismarck statue. MCU soldier w/ graflex. MS soldier at base of statue w/ rifle pointed; CU looking up. Statue from below. Soldiers leaving, buildings behind destroyed. Jeep past. Soldiers into destroyed building. 11:12:42 LIB 5778. Slate: 18Apr45 Camera: Le Gault. Probably Halle. 11:12:46 Soldiers at street corner; tank in street, German crossing w/ hands raised. Soldiers house to house. Burning building. Dead German, MCU. 11:13:21 Soldiers run across street & around corner; along building, across street into building. Soldiers follow w/ machine gun & ammunition boxes. NOTE: Halle was tenth largest city in Germany & largest to be spared Allied bombing. It was finally taken on 19Apr45.