ROER CROSSING, NEAR SCHOPVEN (?), GERMANY ; DUREN ASSAULT, MERKEN (?), GERMANY Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 1937 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1310-1313) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH MP & APC MP, 892' Silent 1937-1 ROER CROSSING Near Schopven (?), Germany 23 Feb 1945 (LIB 3290) MSs, soldiers of the 119th Regt, 30th Div, crossing ponton footbridge, under cover of smoke screen. VS, Engineers building ponton steel treadway bridge under smoke screen. MSs, Engineers constructing infantry support footbridge. MS, footbridge collapsing, soldiers falling into water. VS, Engineers assembling footbridge sections on river bank. MSs, signalmen laying field wire to go across river. MSs, engineers stringing bridge anchor cable across the river. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY MS/es Signal Corps ADC 1937 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1310-1313) Card 2 of 2 111 FILM: ARCH MP & APC MP 892' Silent ADC 1937-2 DUREN ASSAULT Merken (?), Germany 23 Feb 1945 (LIB 3291) LSs, smoke and shell bursts on East bank of Roer River. MSs, CUs, 104th Div soldiers firing 30 cal MG across the river. MSs, CUs, soldiers firing bazooka (rocket launcher) across river. Seq: German prisoners clear rubble from bombed barn to make PW enclosure for themselves in village of Echtz (?). MSs, prisoners being searched and questioned. MSs, soldiers 413th Regt, 104th Div, passing thru wrecked village. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY MS/es

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities