AMERICAN TROOPS ENTER CECINA AND SIENA Part 1

Description

Summary: M-7 motor carriages firing on Casole D'Esla. One in fg marked "Bear Tracks". MSs, US soldiers and vehicles enter Cecina. MCU, sign on side of bldg. MSs, knocked-out German equipment is examined by US soldiers. MSs, vehicles cross small stream. MS, bulldozer clears path around mined area. Seq: US troops enter Siena. Road sign in R fg. MS, long line of equipment is held up by road block. French and US troops move through Siena. Driver of halted tank gives French nun and women some candies. CUs, anti-Nazis posters on wall. VS, French civilians greet US soldiers on their arrival on Siena. 36TH DIV FIELD ARTILLERY FIRES 155mm GUNS.: 10/05/1944: CU, US soldiers fuze 155mm artillery shells. MSs, CU, crew loads and fires 155mm gun. MS, volley for four guns firing.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities