FIRST SCENES OF VETTWEISS (?), GERMANY ; ROER RIVER BRIDGE AND TOWN, NIDEGGEN, GERMANY Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 1941 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1339-1342) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 709' ea Silent 1941-1 LIB 3488 FIRST SCENES OF VETTWEISS (?) GERMANY 28 Feb 1945 MCUs, soldiers sitting on tracks near railroad station. VS, soldiers passing wrecked tracks. CUs, damaged track with one section lying on top of station roof. MS sign in German on wall: "We are victorious because we believe in Adolf Hitler's greater Reich". MSs, 8lmm mortars are fired by several teams in ruins of town. MLS, troops moving into town. A pig and a goat roam the streets. MSs, soldiers, armored cars and other vehicles pass thru town past group of Russian civilians. VS, troops passing log roadblock in center of town. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps 111 ADC 1941 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (M-1339-1342) Card 2 of 2 1941-2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 709 : ea Silent LIB 3489 ROER RIVER BRIDGE AND TOWN Nideggen, Germany 28 Feb 1945 LHS, completely wrecked village MSs, 60th Regt, 2nd Bn, 9th Inf Div troops pass under archway and move thru streets of ruined town. LSs, engineers of the 51st Engrs completing Bailey bridge. VS, jeeps cross bridge thru smoke screen. CU, burning smoke pot. LS, heavy smoke screen covering bridge. MSs, armored bulldozer and M-4 tankdozer clearing wreckage from streets. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities