Enquiry Sent!

Thanks for getting in touch. We’ll get back to you very soon.

Go Back to Homepage

WWII - Color, 1945, Germany: Freed USAAF Crew; DPs; Germans POWs; Cologne. Mar-Apr45

Reel Number: 250088-04

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Germany

Location: Cologne,Koln,Moosburg,Remagen,Stalig luft 3A

TC Begins: 06:29:29

TC Ends: 06:46:28

Duration: 00:16:59

WWII - Color, 1945, Germany: Freed USAAF Crew; DPs; Germans POWs; Cologne. Mar-Apr45 Slate: Lt. Nerrel. Roll 34C SP 186 Stalig Luft 3A, Moosburg, near Munich. Liberated USAAF airmen / pilots / prisoners heating water & cooking in kettle outside barracks. MCU men laughing, chewing. MCU two men in white long underwear. 06:30:30 LS of rows of barracks, overexposed. Liberated POW camp behind barbed wire. Men shaving & combing hair in front of mirror. Polishing boots while sitting on ground. Man washing pants in small pan, pours water from jerry can. 06:31:49 Men beside sign / poster: I wanted Wings - Luft 3 w/ cartoon character behind bards. 06:32:02 Slate (illegible). Flames of fire above burning buildings. Men standing around building, only a little smoke out from under eves, flames appear. Pan to next building in flames. LS both buildings burning. Men beside tents, tilt up to buildings burning behind. 06:34:22 USAAF airmen cleaning motor parts from Piper Cub; mounting cylinder head onto motor on plane. 06:34:41 Slate: Haglund. R15 24Apr Pan w/ released POWs along path w/ carts etc. Down narrow road, some refugees as well. May be some released Polish prisoners - Polish military caps? 06:35:47 Men & boys standing next to brick wall corner, waving; pan across street w/ refugees & released POWs hurrying along road. Several groups of prisoners standing, sitting waving, move along road w/ French flag, carry suitcases, bags, rucksacks. LS line of released prisoners moving across field (overexposed), pan along them on road next to river or canal. 06:37:09 CU sign: WEFA Tryhard Liberated Allies. View of released German POWs marching thru town towards camera; truck past. GI w/ rifle along side them. High angle from roof of POWs on road below. 06:38:31 Horse drawn wagons w/ people & belongings; people pulling wagons & carts & on bicycles. 06:38:59 Same group thru town / city/ Family beside steam car w/ belongings on roof & trailer. Views in both directions of stream of refugees. 06:39:39 Slate: Haglund P3 Remagen ??Mar44 w/ helmet w/ hole. Towers of Remagen bridge w/ US flag on one tower, tilt down to collapsed metal; river flowing thru trusses, motorboat upstream. 06:40:47 Town rubble w/ army trucks past, ambulance past. Jeep dwarfed by ruins. MCU of rubble & building w/o roof etc. 06:41:34 Slate: Haglund P4 27Mar44 Koln. Views of destruction from upper story, most buildings w/ roofs burned off. Pan across empty, desolate buildings. LS of destroyed bridge from high angles. 06:43:13 High angle shots down on nearly totally destroyed buildings including Cathedral, pedestrians seen behind church. View from hilltop castle of standing buildings along Rhine. 06:43:53 Slate Haglund P5 Koln Cath. View into entrance & thru windows. 60:44:24 Overhead of USA army trucks in convoy thru street of two-story buildings & shops; Germans lined on sidewalk. 06:44:57 Shots of German women waiting in line on sidewalk. 06:45:45 LS Rhine River w/ long pontoon bridges & vehicles crossing. WW2; Victims; Prisoners of War; Displaced Persons; Refugees; 1945; Bomb Damage; NOTE: Any continuous 9 minutes sold at per reel rate.

Show more

Similar Sub-themes