DRIVE TO MUNICH, GERMANY ; MEETING OF RUSSIANS AND US SOLDIERS, TORGAU, GERMANY Part 2

Description

Signal Corps ADC 4123 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M Codes) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 1046' ea Silent 4123-1 Record Group 111 LIB 6088 Accession III-NAV-210 DRIVE TO MUNICH Germany, 30 Apr 45 (M-1697-1698) Ext LSs, Pan, concentration camp Munich. Pan, masses of Allied prisoners behind barbed wire fence wave and cheer. CUs, faces of prisoners. MS, US flag painted by former prisoners flies over entrance to concentration camp. MLS, group of prisoners stands over gravel and lime pit where former inmates were buried. CU, face of dead prisoner half covered with gravel. MS, CUs, armored cars of the 33rd Cav, 20th Armd Div, driving thru streets. are followed by jeeps and other vehicles. VS, infantrymen of the 45th Div march thru streets. MCUs, civilians watch troops enter city. LS, M-4 tanks, half-tracks and other vehicles of the 20th Div carrying infantrymen thru streets. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC 4123 SOURCE: AFCF (M-Codes) Card 2 of 2 111 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 1046' ea Silent 4123-2 Record Group 111 LIB 6116-6117 Accession III-NAV-210 MEETING OF RUSSIANS AND US SOLDIERS Torgau, Germany 27 Apr 45 (M-1692-1693) CU, head-on shots, raft carrying Russian officers and photographers approaches west bank of Elbe River. VS, Maj Gen Emil F Reinhardt, CG, 69th Inf Div, Maj Gen Clarence R Huebner, CG of the V Corps meet with Russian Maj Gens Ruskov and Backenov near Torgau. MSs, CUs, Russian soldiers dance and play accordions. MSs, CU, English war artist painting Russian women soldiers posed with Russian and US soldiers. Russian soldiers watch artist at work. MS, US officers on bank of Elbe get into small boat and cross river. MCU, US and Russian officers shaking hands. CU, Maj Gen Reinhardt. VS, Russian and US officers and men walking along road under both flags. CU, Maj Gens Reinhardt and Ruskov shaking hands. 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