Footage of GSAP [Gun Sight Aiming Point] Strafing; Russian/American Dinner Party; Russian Soldiers and Officers; Major General Reinhardt; Buchenwald Concentration Camp; Germany. Part 1

Description

1) GSAP strafing small town. 2) GSAP strafing M/T. 3) GSAP strafing M/T - several burning. 4) GSAP strafing tank. 5) GSAP strafing M/T. NG footage 6) GSAP strafing wooded area. 7) Same. 8) GSAP strafing wooded area - target burning. 9) GSAP strafing wooded area. 10) Same. 11) Same. NG footage 12) MS Major Gen'l Reinhardt, Commanding Gen'l of the 69th infantry division. Panning to Gen'l Baranov Corps Commander of the Russian 1st Ukrainian Army to General Huebner, commanding general of the 8th Corps and General Rossovsky, divisional general of the 1st Ukrainian Army. This was a party given by the Russians in honor of first American-Russian meeting at Torgau, Germany. 13) CS General Baranov and General Reinhardt. 14) CS on General Rossovsky, and Russian soldiers. 15) Interpreter translating for American general and Russian general. 16) CS on General Rossovsky as he lights cigarette. 17) CS on General Hueger. 18) MCS as Russian and Americans dance in open garden. 19) CS Presentation to the American Corps General of the flag of Stalingrad. 20) CS of Gen'l Huegner. 21) CS of Gen'l Rossovsky. 22) MCS as general exam Russian tank. 23) CS insignia #900 and Russian star. 24) Shooting down on American and Russian generals examining tanks. 25) Closer shot of same. 26) CS as Russian officer hands round of ammunition to tank man. 27) Very close on Gen'l Huegner. 28) CS American, Russian and British soldiers standing in front of sign on the banks of the Elbe River. 29) MS Russian banner stretched across village street at meeting place of Russian-Americans. 30) Closer on sign - English translation below. 31) Pan shot of Russian soldiers and women of the Red army. 32) CS as American generals talk to Russian general. 33) MCS on Russian major as he greets displaced Russian girls. 34) CS generals waiting to cross Elbe River. 35) Very close on General Reinhardt as he sits in racing scull. 36) MS as general is rowed across Elbe river in racing scull. 37) LS as they disembark on opposite shore of river. 38) C on sign "East Meets West" showing GI of 69th Division shaking hands with Russian red army soldier. 39) Another angle of sign. 40) MC GI's shaking hands with Russian soldiers. 41) MCS as German civilians walk out of crematorium into courtyard. - Buchenwald. 42) Pan shot on civilians as they pass corpses. 43) MC of crowd as they listen to lecturer in Buchenwald. 44) Very close on people as they walk through camp. 45) MC GI with two Russian soldiers. 46) CS American officer and two Russian soldiers. 47) C American officer shaking hands with Russian soldier. 48) MC as Russian officers greet displaced Russian girls. 49) MS as military traffic moves off bridge over Rhine River - German civilians wait to cross. 50) MS American vehicles as they cross bridge. 51) MS burning airfield - German plane in fg. 52) CS fuselage and tail assembly of German aircraft. 53) MS hangar buildings in bg - wrecked German aircraft in fg. 54) MS as combat vehicles cross camera - wrecked hangar in fg. 55) LS to sky of formations of C-47s. 56) CS German gas mask and sign on steps as GI foot kicks them away. 57) MS as jeep drives into scene - wrecked German aircraft in fg. 58) MCS as Germans are given K-rations. They march out of sc. 59) LS as long line of German prisoners get K-rations. 60) CS as they pass by camera. 61) LS PW cage - panning to masses of prisoners.

Collection

Records of the Army Air Forces

Series

Motion Picture Films from the "Special Film Project" Program Series