REPLACEMENT TROOPS MOVE UP Part 1

Description

Summary: VS, troops seated on ground during briefing. VS, Catholic chaplain holding outdoor service. Men throw gas masks on pile, line up helmets for stencilling, turn in pistols. VS, soldiers strip down their packs. MSs, CUs, men being issued rations and ammo. VS, troops load into 2 1/2-ton trucks. Trucks leave for the front. SIEGFRIED LINE, BELGIAN-NAZI GARRISON.: 09/12-16/1944: MSs, CUs, American infantry advances on Siegfried Line. MS, M-4 tanks, in open field, fire. MSs, CUs, American soldiers inspect wrecked pillboxes and German gun. MS, tank traps and dragon's teeth. MS, German permanent barracks damaged by American shellfire. CU, American soldier inspecting cat-of nine tails and other abandoned German equipment. MS, CUs, German garrison at Bastogne, Belgium. MSs, interior, German garrison, now used as American officers mess. CU, picture of Hitler framed in a toilet seat. MS, bells stolen from Belgian churches for shipment to Germany. Various shots, infantry and M-4 tanks attack Roth, Germany. CUs, soldiers firing .30 cal heavy machine gun and a mortar. LS, infantrymen advance across field.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities