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Creator(s):
Department of Defense.
Department of the Army.
Office of the
Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/
1947 - 02/28/1964) (Most Recent)
Series :
Documentary Films, compiled ca.
1914 - ca.
1944
Record
Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer,
1860 -
1985
Production Date:
1945
General Note(s):
Credits: [
Director,
Carol Reed,
Garson Kanin;
Script,
Eric Maschwitz,
Arthur MacRae,
Jenny Nicholson,
Gerald Kersh,
Guy Trosper; Editor,
Robert Verrell;
Music,
William Alwyn.]
Contributor:
Producer,
Signal Corps in cooperation with the
Ministry of Information (
Great Britain). Distributed by the
Office of War Information.
Use
Restriction(s): Undetermined
Scope &
Content: On the
Allied invasion and conquest of
Western Europe, 1944-1945.
Reel 1,
German officers inspect coastal defenses in
France.
Survivors are rescued from a freighter sinking in the
North Atlantic.
A U.S. transport arrives at
Liverpool and troops debark.
Shows street scenes in
London and servicemen's clubs.
Troops run obstacle courses and scale cliffs in training. Reel 2,
Gens.
Arnold,
Montgomery, and
Marshall meet in
SHAEF headquarters.
Landing craft for "
Operation Mulberry," tanks, munitions, and gasoline supplies are assembled on
English coasts. Pres.
Roosevelt,
Churchill, and
Stalin pose at
Teheran, Dec. 1943. Gens.
Eisenhower,
Bradley, and Montgomery pose at SHAEF headquarters.
Goring, et al. inspect
Normandy defenses. B-17s bomb marshalling yards.
Invasion convoys assemble at
Southampton; ships are loaded and rest in the harbor;
Gen. Eisenhower inspects troops; and the convoy weighs anchor. Reel 3, paratroops and gliders land behind the beaches.
Naval guns bombard the beaches. Landing craft hits the shoreline.
British troops crawl inland across fields and dig in.
Wounded huddle together on
Omaha Beach. Supplies are ferried to shore in LCTs. Reel 4,
British mortars pound
Caen and troops fight through the streets. Improvised beach facilities are erected in "Operation Mulberry." British troops advance through hedgerows outside Cherbourg.
Artillery blasts the city and
Allied troops enter.
Maquis units are armed.
Harbor installations are repaired. A tank battle rages south of Caen. Reel 5, refugees return to rubbled St. Lo.
Prisoners of war are taken.
Tanks of the
3rd Army roll through villages and are greeted by throngs of people in
Rennes. Shows Gen.
Patton. Allied infantry is pinned down by artillery fire near
Mortain.
Royal Air Force (
RAF) Typhoon fighter planes are armed, take off, and strafe the
Nazi positions.
Armored units roll toward
Argentan under artillery support. Reel 6 shows abandoned and destroyed Nazi equipment. Thousands of Nazis surrender. Tanks roll toward
Paris.
Germans retreat as
Free French forces, led by Gen. de Gaulle, enter Paris. 20,
000 Germans surrender to British outside
Brussels.
Infantry and tank units cross the
German border. Reel 7, infantry units assault
Siegfried Line defenses. Paratroops land near
Arnhem and gliders near
Eindhoven in the
Netherlands.
Assault troops land on the Scheldt
Islands and at
Antwerp.
Trucks are loaded at Antwerp and roll toward the front. Wintry weather strikes Allied positions from the
Low Countries to the Vosge
Mountains. Reel 8, infantry units at Arnhem and Bastogne are cut off and blasted by German artillery. Allied artillery and rocket fire effects a breakthrough and armor moves forward from "The
Bulge." Pres. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet at
Yalta. Armored units enter
Cologne.
Assault boats are moved by truck across
Belgium to the Rhine. The
9th Armored Division crosses a bridge at Remagen. Troops cross in an amphibious operation. Paratroops drop on the east bank. Reel 9, thousands of Nazis surrender.
U.S. prisoners are liberated.
Belsen prison camp is occupied. Shows scenes of
Nazi atrocities. U.S. and
Russian troops meet at the
Elbe. Shows brief scenes at conference tables as German leaders surrender.
Contact(s): National Archives at
College Park -
Motion Pictures (RD-DC-M), National Archives at College Park,
8601 Adelphi Road,
College Park, MD 20740-6001
Phone: 301-837-3540, Fax: 301-837-3620, Email: mopix@
nara.gov
National Archives Identifier: 35912
Local Identifier: 111-M-1211
http://research.archives.gov/description/35912
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