FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY AND RUSSIAN MARSHAL ROKOSSOVKSKY, WISMAR, GERMANY ; EN ROUTE TO BERLIN, GERMANY Part 1

Description

Signal Corps ADC 1919 L11 SOURCE: A FCF (II-1716-1717) ADC Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 1004' ea Silent 1919-1 LIB 6393 FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY AND RUSSIAN MARSHAL ROKOSSOVKSKY Wismar, Germany 7 May 45 Seq: Field Marshal Bernard L Montgomery, CIC, 21st Army Op and staff meet Russian Marshal Rokossovsky, Byelo-Russian Army Gp and staff at 6th British AB Div, XVIII American AB Corps, 2nd British Army. MSs, CUs, two officers. Montgomery presents Russian Gen with autographed portrait as token of friendship. MSs, Russian and British flags fly side by side from staffs. CU, American, British and Russian photographers using motion picture cameras. (Included among Russian staff are Col Gen Bogolubov, CofS, Russian Gp; Lt Col Suboton, Member of Military Council; Lt Gen Sanava, Asst to Marshal Rokossovsky; Col Gen Verchinin, CO of Air Force; Col Gen Sokolsky, CO, Artillery; Maj Gen Vinogradov, Asst CofS; Lt Gen Pansolov, CO, 3rd Tank Corps.) ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY ERB/sj Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 Signal Corps 11 ADC 1919 DC SOURCE: AFCF (M-1716-1717) Card 2 of 2 919-2FILM: ARCH & APC MP 1004' ea Silent LIB 6425 EN ROUTE TO BERLIN Germany 8 May 45 Seq: Air Chief Arthur W Tedder; Maj Gen Strong, Br G-2; Adm Burrows, Br Navy; and US officers, Gen Carl L Spaatz and Maj Gen Harold R Bull, arrive at Airstrip R-34 near Stendal. Russian Col Ivan Zenkovitch welcomes them. Seq: Arrival at Templehof Airdrome, Berlin are Gen Sokolowski and Chief of Staff Marshal Georgi K Zhukov who greet British and US officers. VIPs troop line of soldiers; enter sedans and drive to Marshal Zhukov's headquarters. LS, US Army Engineer School where surrender papers are to be signed. Ints, Marshal Zhukov speaks to Air Chief Tedder and signs documents. Ints, Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs surrender documents for Germany. MCUs, Adm Hans Gearg Freideburg and Col Gen Stumpf sign documents. Excellent CUs, signing of documents by Zhukov, Tedder, Gen Spaatz, and French Gen de Lattre de Tassigny. VS, Gen Spaatz and Air Marshal Tedder inspect damaged planes at airfield. LSs, MSs, Russian guard with fixed bayonets march past camera R-L. MSs, Marshal Tedder speaks thru microphone to attending military personnel at airfield. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35TH AVE., LIC 1, NY ERB/sj Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities