4TH ARMORED DIVISION DRIVE, KUHNHAUSEN (?), GERMANY ; IKE VISITS XX CORPS, GOTHA, GERMANY Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 3962 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (M-1601-1605) Card 1 of 2 962-1 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 943' ea Silent LIB 5421 4TH ARMD DIV DRIVE Kuhnhausen (?), Ger 12 Apr 45 LSs, MSs, vehicles of the 4th Armd Div leaves wooded area and drive twd open country. Ext LSs, several P-47s diving, bombing and strafing the town. Head-on shots, tanks move between rows of apple trees in bloom. LSs, tanks halted in field. Soldiers get off and prepare for fire. VS, infantrymen on foot and in vehicles clog country road as they advance. CU, tank passes over repaired portion of road. FS, P-47s dive bombing in distance; tanks in fg. Excellent scenes, tanks in advance passing German civilians along very narrow country road. RVs, tanks passing liberated civilians in open country. Civilians wave as tanks pass. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC 3962 DC SOURCE: AFCF (M-1601-1605) Card 2 of 2 962-2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 943' ea Silent LIB 5419 IKE VISITS XX CORPS Gotha, Germany 12 Apr 45 Seq: Arrival of 5-star Gen Dwight D Eisenhower, 4-star Gen Omar N Bradley, Lt Gen George S Patton, Jr at airfield. Gens are greeted by Gen Walton H Walker, XX Corps Commander and Maj Gen Troy H Middleton, CG, VIII Corps. MSs, Gens Eisenhower and Walker listen as a Lt explains how prisoners were tortured. MS, former female prisoner lying on rack demonstrates treatment of prisoners by Nazi guards. MSs, CUs, some of the corpses found in the concentration camp. VS, Gens touring Nazi concentration camp grounds. Gens exit from bldg and get into jeeps. Gen Eisenhower speaks to an ex-prisoner of the camp thru an interpreter. Gens tour the camp site. Record Group 111 Accession Number 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

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities