LAST SURRENDER, LOKET AND CARLSBAD, CZECHOSLOVAKIA Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 4528 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1744-1745) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 1007' ea Silent 4528-1 B-1184 LAST SURRENDER Loket and Carlsbad Czechoslovakia 8 May 1945 MSs, youthful German soldier filling and drinking from canteen. MSs, LSs, German soldiers undergo interrogation by US Sgt and German civilian. Seq: Sedan carrying German general to surrender is pulled out of the mud by a US jeep. Ints, German Lt Gen Herbert Faeckenstaedt, CG, German XII Corps, and staff confer with US Brig Gen George A Taylor, Asst CG, 1st Div. VSs, sedan pulls to curb and German Gen Faeckenstaedt gets out and enters bldg. Ints, German Gen points out locations of his troops to G-2 officers. (scratched in above scene) MCUs, German civilians in horse-drawn vehicles. Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Signal Corps ADC 4528 111 SOURCE: AFCF (M-1744-1745) Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 1007' ea Silent 4528-2 B-1184 LAST SURRENDER (Cont'd) Loket and Carlsbad Czechoslovakia 8 May 45 (Cont'd) Head-on shots, roads ladened with traffic eventually bogging down. (Sprocket marks in this portion of film. ) CU sign to L of frame "Nach Rheinbrohl - Km". CU sign in middle of road: "Are You Lost, Enemy Ahead". (Reel in this area has double exposure. ) Excellent scenes, German vehicles of every description heading for surrender point. MLS, two German soldiers, each of whom has lost a leg, standing in street. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/es Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities