6TH ARMORED DIVISION DRIVE, NEAR LEIZIG, GERMANY ; 10TH ARMORED DIVISION, GERMANY ; OHRINGEN (?), GERMANY Part 3

Description

Signal Corps ADC 3958 11 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1612-1613) Card 1 of 2 DC 958-1FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 706' ea Silent LIB 5467 - 6TH ARMORED DIV DRIVE Near Leipzig, Germany - 12 April 1945 LSs, CUs, German prisoners surrender to US forces. One man shields his face. MSs, group of prisoners running along road with hands upraised. US soldiers march in opposite direction. Seq: German prisoners carry German wounded soldier. Short scene, prisoners clear roadblock under supervision of US troops. Seq: Infantry and tanks advance along sides of road. Infantrymen in ditch on side of road get up from prone position and move out. CU, tank on country road passes sign: "Lobitz" MS, US soldiers on and alongside of halted half-track fire their rifles. Cut to two German soldiers with hands raised walking toward them. LS, tanks and half-tracks cross Leipzig Autobahn. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/lzw Signal Corps ADC 3958 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1612-1613) Card 2 of 2 ADC 958-2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP, 706' ea Silent LIB 5608 ats 10TH ARMORED DIV Germany - 13 April 1945 Seq: Engineers of 55th A Engrs, 10th AD, VI Corps, Seventh US Army, use a tank- dozer to clear debris of wrecked railroad bridge. CU, engineer fixes demolition charge. Tank in fg pulls to side of road; flames in bg engulf house. MCU, US soldiers run along road past burning homes. Short scene, civilians clear roadblocks. LIB 5609 - Ohringen (?) Germany (No date) LSs, MCUs, street of city as Maj Gen W H H Morris, CG of 10th Armd Div and an unidentified officer inspect ruins of town. LS, CUs, burning homes of city. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-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