UFA FILM, INVASION OF LOWLANDS, DUNKERQUE, FRANCE Part 1

Description

Signal Corps ADC 2499 111 SOURCE: Captured Ftge (APC-1) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH DN & APC MP 877' ea Silent 2499-1 UFA FILM INVASION OF LOWLANDS Dunkerque, France Animated map of England, Germany, France and the Low Countries. Animation depicts encirclement of Holland, Belgium, Maginot Line, and France. CU, prop of German bomber turning. Seq: German pilot enters medium bomber and plane takes off. Follow shots, L-R, Head-on, looking up showing waves of German medium and light bombers in formation. CUs, pilot at controls. CUs, thru bomb bay, medium bomber dropping bombs and bombs falling. AVs, explosions on coastline. AVs, formation of Stukas in flight. CUs, Stukas winging over on dive-bomb attack. Record Group 111 CU from cockpit of Stuka in dive. Accession III-NAV-210 CU, pilot using stick, pulls out of dive. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC 2499 111 SOURCE: Captured Ftge (APC-1) Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH DN & APC MP 877' ea Silent 2499-2 UFA FILM INVASION OF LOWLANDS (Cont'd) Dunkerque, France (Cont'd) CUs, bombs falling from bomb rack photographed from inside plane. Head-on shot, CUs, three Stukas diving into camera. CU, pilot in cockpit. Follow shots, plane dive-bombing English transports off Dunkerque. Bombs falling into water near transports and exploding. AV, English freighters bombed and burning. Ground views, freighter and destroyers leaving harbor. Record Group 111 LSs and CUs, German soldiers loading and firing coastal defense Accession guns. III-NAV-210 LSs, British warships firing. Short scene, German "E" boats escorted by aircraft skimming thru waters. Seq: German antiaircraft guns lined up on shore fire at English planes. One plane falls and crashes into water. LS, parachutists dropping toward earth. VS, German tracer bullets are fired at English planes. Excellent scene, English twin-engined bomber as it hits water. 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