Records of the Office of the Secretary of War. 1791 - 1948. Motion Picture Films. 1942 - 1946. BASTOGNE, BELGIUM

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Records of the Office of the Secretary of War. 1791 - 1948. Motion Picture Films. 1942 - 1946. BASTOGNE, BELGIUM

1945

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Gens. McAuliffe and Collins confer in a snowy street. Supplies are dropped from C-47 transports to the encircled 101st Airborne Division. Shows the gathering of the supplies, a wrecked C-47, troops in foxholes and trenches, tanks firing, and a field telephone. German prisoners, including one wounded man, are questioned and taken to the rear. U.S. troops file through a forest behind tanks one of which strikes a land mine and explodes. The injured crew members are carried to the rear. U.S. dead are buried and partially demolished vehicles inspected. A half-track tows a field gun along a snow-clogged road. Troops are decorated.

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Collins, J. Lawton (Joseph Lawton), 1896-1987

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Joseph Lawton Collins (1896-1987) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. After his graduation from West Point in 1917, he commissioned with the infantry. He served with the American forces in Germany from 1919 to 1921. Between 1921 and 1931, he taught at West Point and the Infantry School. He graduated from Command and General Staff School in 1933 and the Army Industrial College in 1937. Upon graduation from the Army War College in 1938, he became an instructor there. In 1941, he left to serve as c...

McAuliffe, Anthony C., 1898-1975

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Army officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Anthony Clement McAuliffe : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309736358 Anthony Clement McAuliffe (b. July 2, 1898, Washington, D.C.-d. Aug. 11, 1975), U.S. Army officer, was commissioned in the field artillery from West Point in 1919. During World War II, he served as commanding general, 101st Airborne Division Artillery; assistant division commander, 101st Airborne D...