OPERATIONS IN FRANCE [ETC.] Part 2

Description

Part 1, artillery and P-47s bombard Brest. Shows German-destroyed railroad yards and a tank destroyer in action. Part 2, a German general surrenders 20,000 troops to Gen. R.C. Macon at Beaugency, France. Enumerates numbers of items surrendered and shows long columns of Germans filing into the city and laying down their arms. Part 3 (Reel 2), Canadian troops occupy a German flying bomb launching site in Flanders and show facilities. Describes the layout of the site and describes the operation of the V-2 and launching apparatus. Part 4, the 3rd Army crosses the Moselle River under a smoke screen and meets the 7th Army in Dijon, France. The British 2nd Army rolls thru Tournai, Belgium (Sept. 3), and fights in Antwerp. Ghent citizens help wipe out final resistance. Part 5 (Reel 3), the 1st Army enters Roetgen and other German border towns without opposition. Supplies and arms are dropped to and retrieved by Belgians. Part 6, the 82nd Airborne Division and 101st Airborne Division prepare for a mission in the Netherlands. Paratroops board C-47s and fly to their objectives. Glider troops take off, fly, and land at Eindhoven.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the "Combat Bulletin" Program Series