Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Documentary Films. 1914 - 1944. LEST WE FORGET

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Documentary Films. 1914 - 1944. LEST WE FORGET

1947

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On World War II. Reel 1 shows Berlin's war ruins, the allied victory celebrations in Paris and London, and scenes of soldiers marching, embarking and disembarking from transports and landing craft, and relaxing. Flashbacks to war scenes show allied planes bombing enemy cities, plane crashes, amphibious landings, Gen. Eisenhower, airborne operations, and masses of war materiel being transported by railway, truck, and ship. Reel 2 shows scenes from allied airborne and amphibious invasion of Normandy and of the allied advance inland. Includes scenes of Army corpsmen caring for wounded troops, the ruins of cities, artillery bombardments, and German prisoners of war (POWs). Reel 3 shows Germans surrendering, allied artillery bombardments, Gens. Bradley and Eisenhower, allied troops advancing through France, and Gen. de Gaulle saluting U.S. troops as they parade through Paris. Includes views of various activities of soldiers in the field, corpsmen treating the wounded, French war ruins, and the allied amphibious invasion of Southern France. Reel 4 shows Germans surrendering, burning German tanks, French civilians greeting soldiers, Bing Crosby and USO girls entertaining troops, Gens. Eisenhower and Montgomery conferring, allied aerial and ground attacks on the Germans around Aachen, airborne operations in Southern France, German refugees, the allied assault and capture of Metz, and the Stars and Stripes' headlines announcing the victory. Reel 5 shows allied tanks and jeeps moving through a German city and along German roads. Gen. Patton talks to troops. Allied troops and tanks advance in Germany, take German prisoners, and shoot German war criminals. Includes views of German refugees, dead Germans, war ruins, and burning German war materiel. Reel 6, troops and tanks advance over snow covered German fields. POWs are marched to the rear. Airplanes parachute supplies to troops. Corpsmen carry wounded on stretchers.Bombs drop on a German city. Reel 7, troops cross a river on a pontoon bridge and attack and capture Cologne, take German prisoners, and advance into Germany. Corpsmen treat the wounded. Shows war ruins in Juelick, Cologne, and other German cities; and German refugees. Reel 8 shows an airborne operation. Gen. Eisenhower confers with other generals. German soldiers surrender and are interrogated. Liberated concentration camp inmates are loaded aboard ambulances. Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, and others visit a concentration camp and see German atrocities. Allied troops cross flooded areas of Holland in landing craft. Shows German war ruins, crying women, dead soldiers, and destroyed and abandoned German war materiel. Reel 9 allied soldiers and tanks fight their way through a German city. U.S. and Russian soldiers greet each other in Germany. Flashbacks show Hitler at a Nazi rally in Berlin. Nazi symbols in Berlin are destroyed. Shows German refugees.

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