ACTIVITIES OF CZECH. BRIGADE, DUNKERQUE, FRANCE ; PO RIVER CROSSING, REVERE (?), ITALY Part 3

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Signal Corps IDC ADC 4087 087-1 SOURCE: AFCF Card 1 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 994' ea Silent LIB 5708-5713 ACTIVITIES OF CZECH BRIGADE Dunkerque, France 7 Apr 45 (M-1645-1648) Seq: Czech soldiers get into British Churchill tanks and drive along road thru sand dunes. MSs, tank column moving thru bomb-wrecked French village of Ghyvelde. Re-enacted scenes, Czech soldiers dem onstrate tank and infantry assault techniques used to capture Dunkerque. Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210 CU, statue of Joan of Arc in wrecked church. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER. 35-11 35th Ave.. LIC 1. NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC 4087 87-2 SOURCE: AFCF Card 2, of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 994' ea Silent PO RIVER CROSSING Revere (?), Italy 24 Apr 1945 (0-1146) VS, troops of the 1st Bn, 351st Inf, 88th Inf Div, move thru rubble-strewn streets and past German wrecked equipment. LS, two soldiers on horseback amid demolished bldgs. LS from bridge, shells exploding on opposite side of river. Head-on shots, wounded Ranger crawls back across bridge. Other soldiers in fg, lying flat on stomachs taking cover, cannot aid the wounded man. MCU, soldiers on ground fire MGs at enemy held positions on opposite side of bridge. LSs, men of the 88th Div run off bridge to escape shelling. Enemy shells are visible hitting girder of bridge. In fg, below bridge; a medium US tank fires. Record Group III 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