INFANTRY MOVES THRU, GELSENKIRCHEN, GERMANY ; GEN. DEVERS ON TOUR, KURNACH, GANHEIM, WERTHEIN (?), GERMANY Part 1

Description

Signal Corps ADC 3948 111 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (M-1601-1605) Card 1 of 2 3948-FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 887¹ ea Silent INFANTRY MOVES THRU Gelsenkirchen, Germany ELS Apr 1945 (LIB 5319) Seq: Soldiers of 35th Signal Co, 134th Regt, 35th Div, XVI Corps, Ninth US Army string wire thru streets of Gelsenkirchen and Bochum. Bomb damage to homes is visible in bg. Follow shots, bulldozer clears debris from streets. Head-on and HS, vehicles of 35th Div pass thru town. HSs, German civilians carry their weapons. VS, infantry troops in split file advance thru town. Armored vehicles pass soldiers in their advance. Record Group 111 Accession Number I II - NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/lzw Signal Corps ADC 3948 111 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (M-1601-1605) Card 2 of 2 3948-FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 887' ea Silent GEN DEVERS ON TOUR Kurnach, Ganheim, Werthein (?) Germany 9 April 1945 LIB 5320 Follow shot, L-5 plane takes off. CU sign: "Kurnach, 11 underneath which is another sign: " Verboten". Head-on, jeep convoy of US Army races toward camera. MS, Gen Jacob L Devers, CG, Sixth US Army Group, leaves jeep and enters bldg. HSs, Gen Devers, Asst Sec of War John J McCloy, Lt Gen Alexander M Patch and other officers leave CP 242nd Inf Regt. CU, sign: "242nd Inf Regt - CP." Short scene, Gen officers conversing in front of CP, 42nd Div, XXI Corps. CUs, MSs, VIPs listed above. VS, touring party at luncheon at airfield. Record Group 111 Accession Number 1II-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/lzw

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities