BLOODY ROER, HOLSDORF (?), GERMANY ; DUREN IN SMOKE Part 1

Description

Signal Corps ADC 1870 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1310-1313) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 806' ea Silent 1870-1 LIB 3285 BLOODY ROER olsdorf, (?) Germany 23 Feb 1945 Seq: Engineers in assault boat cross river. Engineers string cable across river to be used as assault boat ferry. Excellent scenes, assault boats carrying wounded soldiers beach, and men are carried from boats to shore. CUs, several of the wounded, some in great pain. CU, soldier's leg with foot blown off. MSs, CUs, HSs, M-10 motor carriage and 57mm AT gun firing point-blank into house in Duren ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/lzw Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 Signal Corps ADC 1870 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1310-1313) Card 2 of 2 111 FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 806 ea Silent ADC 1870-2 LIB 3286 DUREN IN SMOKE 23 Feb 1945 LSs, thru hole in wall of bldg, white phosphorous shells burst in distance. LSs, fires and shell bursts land on city. CU, soldiers in OP observe shelling thru binoculars and BC scope. MSs, MCUs, CUs, crew fires 155 mm gun on M-12 motor carriage on bank of Roer River. RVs, soldiers cross ponton footbridge. VS, LVT crosses river. VS, construction of ponton footbridge. VS, assault beats loaded with troops move down river under cover of smoke screen. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/lzw Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities