V-E DAY CELEBRATIONS, HANOVER-HAMELN, GERMANY ; GEN SIMPSON VISITS 83RD DIV, CALBE, GERMANY Part 2

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Signal Corps ADC 4428 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M Codes) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 613' ea Silent 4428-1 B-1185 V-E DAY CELEBRATIONS Hanover-Hameln, Germany 9 May 45 (M-1743) LSs, British, French, and US flags flying above church entrance. LSs, truckloads of Dutch DPs moving to and away from camera. VS, Dutch DPs gathered in open field. Young child waves Dutch flag. MSs, 2nd Bn, 137th Inf Regt, parading thru streets of Hameln. MSs, CUs, Dutich displaced persons load aboard freight trains. Seq: Detachments of Yugoslav, Polish, Czech, Russian and Italian troops. honoring US soldiers during review and retreat ceremony. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 Signal Corps ADC 4428 SOURCE: AFCF (M Codes) Card 2 of 2 FILM: ARCH & APC MP 613 ea Silent ADC 4428-2 LIB 6297 GEN SIMPSON VISITS 83RD DIV Calbe, Germany 5 May 45 (M-1738-1739) MSs, MCUs, Maj Gen Robert C Macon, CG, 83rd Inf Div; Mr Robert L Patterson, Under Secretary of War and Lt Gen William H Simpson, Ninth Army Commander, looking at first bridge built across the Elbe River. CU, sign near bridge: "Truman Bridge, Gateway to Berlin Over the Elbe, Courtsey 83rd Thunderbolt Div Engineers.' VS, GenSimpson and party inspect troops, speak with soldiers of the 30th Inf Div and tour the 83rd Inf Div area. Record Group 111 Accession 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