UNITED STATES' OCCUPATION OF BERLIN, GERMANY Part 1

Description

Travel shot from atop tank destroyer as it passes through streets lined with German people. CU, 2nd Armored Div patch on sleeve of PFC gunner in tank. Fol shots, armed vehicles of the 2nd Armd Div pass through streets and along roads. At one point the camera is on Russian road sign. LS, destruction in the city; in foreground, Russian troops pass. Cut to civilians watching entry of Russians. MCUs, CUs, Russian Army band playing. MLS, MCUs, US Army band playing. FSV, Russian soldiers wearing helmets and carrying bayoneted rifles at attention. MLS, Gen Omar N. Bradley; Russian Maj Gen Nicholei Nicholeiovitch Barinov, Deputy CO of Russian Forces in Berlin; Maj Gen Floyd L. Parks, CG, 1st Airborne Army, Berlin District; and French Gen Duschesne, CG, French Forces in Berlin, at attention during ceremony. Gen Barinov speaks into mike, reads from transcript. US officer translates. LA, US troops parade past Adolph Hitler Youth Barracks. Travel shot past two seedy Russian soldiers seated on their baggage. Travel shot past Youth Barracks and demolished houses. MSs, Gen Bradley speaks to Russian officers. MSs, MLSs, Russian troops parading in courtyard of former barracks. Russian and US flags flying atop barracks. LS, ceremony. MSs, US troops saluting; tank destroyers firing in background. MCUs, Gen Bradley speaking at microphone, after which the Allied officers walk forward past camera.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities