TANKS AND BURNING TOWN, NEAR GRAFENWOHR, GERMANY ; GERMAN PRISONERS, ESSEN, GERMANY Part 1

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Signal Corps C ADC 4049 49-1 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1657) Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 971' ea Silent LIB 5809 TANKS AND BURNING TOWN Near Grafenwohr, Germany 19 Apr 45 VS, 11th Armd Div tanks and troops pass burning building as they enter village. MS, RV, soldier fires 30 cal water-cooled MG mounted on vehicle; smoke rises in distance. LS, infantryman fires rifle from atop tank. MLSs, side view, gunner atop tank fires MG. LS, MSs, burning and smoking building of village as tanks and vehicles carrying troops speed past. Record Group 111 CU, sign: "Vorbach-Eschenbach." Accession Number III-NAV-210 LSs, M-4 tanks in stationary positions along roadway aim their guns across field. (No action or firing in these scenes.) LSs, men atop tanks and vehicles watch flames rise from bldgs in bg. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps 11 DC ADC 4049 049-2 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1657) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP971' ea Silent LIB 5810 GERMAN PRISONERS Essen, Germany 19 Apr 1945 VS, German prisoners, many of them in civilian clothes, are loaded aboard trucks. VS, MPs burn mounds of refuse left by prisoners. LSs, trucks loaded with prisoners pull onto road. 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

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities