RUSSIAN GENERALS VISIT WESTERN FRONT, GERMANY AND HOLLAND ; GENERALS MONTGOMERY AND SIMPSON LOOK OVER JULICH, GERMANY Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 2161 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1339-1342) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 585' ea Silent 2161-1 LIB 3533 RUSSIAN GENERALS VISIT WESTERN FRONT Germany & Holland 28. Feb 1945 VS, Russian and British officers visit the XIX Corps HQ, 102nd Div and 5th Armd Div of the Ninth US Army on tour of the Western Front. Included in the party are Russian Maj Gen Dragoun, Russian Maj Gen Suslaporov, Russian Col Moluga, BritishBrig Peto, and British Maj Legart. LSs, party arrives at Teilenkirchen, Holland, where the members are greeted by US officers. They proceed jeeps to the XIII Corps HQ. Short scene, VIPs in jeeps cross Roer River. MCU, Russian officers talk to liberated Russian civilians. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC 2161 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1339-1342) Card 2 of 2 ADC 2161-2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 585' ea Silent LIB 3501 GENS MONTGOMERY AND SIMPSON LOOK OVER JULICH, GER MANY 28 Feb 1945 MSs, British Field Marshal Bernard L Montgomery arrives at airfield and is greeted by US Lt Gen William H Simpson, Ninth US Army Commander. MSs, Maj Gen Charles H Gerhardt, CG, 29th Div, points out wreckage on the Roer River to Gens Montgomery and Simpson. MSs, Gens eat lunch from hood of jeep. VS, Gens walk over ponton bridge and tour the area. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities