14TH ARMORED DIVISION DRIVE TO THE DANUBE, GUNGOLDING-ON-DAUBE, GERMANY ; 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION, MERCHINGEN, GERMANY Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 2528 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1687) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 991' ea Silent 2528-1 LIB 6024 14TH ARMORED DIVISION DRIVE TO THE DANUBE, Gungolding-on-Daube (?) Germany 26 Apr 45 VS, M-7 motor carriages, armored cars, halftracks of the 14th Armd and infantrymen of the 341st Regt, 86th Div, move along narrow road thru level country. CUs, prisoners cross narrow ponton footbridge. LS, M-4 tank crosses ponton bridge; German prisoners are visible in fg. VS, men and tanks pass thru town and cross steel treadway ponton bridge. LIB 6025 101ST AIRBORNE DIV Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 Merchingen, Germany 21 Apr 1945 LS, 327th Inf Glider Regt troops in dukws cross Gar Davidson bridge. MSs, convoy passes road sign: "Heidelberg". Seq: Signal Corps troops string wire from jeep to poles in city of Hungheim. Soldier climbs telephone pole and attaches wire. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC 2528 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1687) Card 2 of 2 111 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 991' ea Silent ADC 2528-2 LIB 6025 101ST AIRBORNE DIV (Cont'd) Merchingen, Germany 21 Apr 45 (Cont'd) Signalman from inside house opens shutters of window and fastens wire to shutter bolt. Seq: Civilians move their belongings from house which is to be used as CP. Exts, US flag is raised on staff from window of new HQ. MSs, soldiers place the following signs throughout area: "G-1", "G-4", "Kangaroo CP", "Klaxon Mess Hall, 11 etc. MSs, ox-drawn and horse-drawn wagons moving civilian supplies thru streets. MSs, two soldiers finding glass-framed picture of Adolf Hitler destroy it by knocking out glass with pistol butts and tossing it on the ground. MLS, road sign: "Merchingen" to R side of screen. 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