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82nd Airborne troops take surrounding villages near Stavelot, Belgium (WW2)

United States Army 82nd Airborne troops take positions around Stavelot, Belgium in World War II. The soldiers make a “Sign of the Cross” during a brief religious service led by chaplain of the 504th Parachute Infantry. Soldiers running in Stavelot. 82nd Airborne troops in prone position shoot with rifles. A soldier shooting with an M1919 Browning machine gun. Abandoned and damaged German heavy equipment and vehicles scattered near Stavelot. 82nd Airborne troops take surrounding villages south of Stavelot. A soldier fires a bazooka near a house. Another soldier throws a grenade into a window of a basement where German soldiers may be hiding. 82nd Airborne troops engage in street fighting. Soldier fires a rifle from behind a stone wall. A battalion of the 35th infantry division marching through snow covered forests and over steep hills on the southern side of the salient. 35th infantry division makes a maneuver in the Sauer River section to outflank a town on the Belgian-Luxembourg border.

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080568
U.S. and German forces clash at Stavelot, Belgium, during World War II

Opening slate identifies site of World War 2 combat as Stavelot, Belgium, 20 miles from the German frontier. American soldiers of the 30th Infantry Division are seen digging protective field positions. M1917 Browning 30mm machine guns are at their positions. U.S. troops set up 90mm guns along the roads, as fog begins to obscure the area. On 21 December, 1944, Two U.S. soldiers walk across a square in the town of Stavelot where American and German forces clashed on December 20th. Views of destroyed buildings, abandoned Tiger II tank of s.SS.Pz.Abt.101 and Stummel half-track and wreckage. Civilians run for cover into a substantial building as German forces renew an attack on the town. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044524
U.S. Army employs delaying tactics to slow German advance during Battle of the Bulge in World War II

Opening scene shows Belgian rescue workers searching for survivors of a German V-2 rocket strike in the city of Antwerp, Belgium, on 17 December, 1944, during World War 2. Some clergymen help steel-helmeted emergency workers carry a victim from the rubble, on a stretcher. Aerial view of the port of Antwerp showing its extensive facilities including rail lines. U.S. Army troops of the American 2nd Infantry Division withdrawing in trucks towards Elsenborn, Belgium, as the German offensive gains ground. Snow covers the ground. Piles of fuel, gas, and diesel cans are seen on fire at a fuel dump near Stavelot, Belgium, where soldiers of Company A, 526th Armored Infantry Battalion, are destroying the fuels to keep them out of the hands of German forces advancing on the town. U.S. Army engineers carry boxes of TNT inside German-built pillbox fortifications and and blow them up. Large explosions seen. An engineer notching a tree beside a road. Others insert explosives and string wire to detonate the charges and create road blocks. Engineers place land mines into holes in a road outside of Elsenborn.

Date: 1944, December 17
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044522
Men, women and children civilians killed by German soldiers in Stavelot, Belgium during World War II Battle of the Bulge

Civilians including men, women and children killed by Nazi soldiers in Stavelot, Belgium during World War II. Caskets with the dead bodies. Lumps of dead bodies at a place of shelter blown by Nazis (the civilians had taken refuge in basements and the Nazi soldiers had thrown grenades into the basements). Frozen dead bodies of women and small children. A woman weeps. Common grave for burial of all victims. Man brings stiffened dead body of a small child. A man checks names of the dead and priest says last prayers before burial.

Date: 1944, December 30
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036159
Murdered civilians carried from building to common grave in Stavelot, Belgium.

Burial of victims killed when Germans tossed hand grenades into basements in Stavelot, Belgium where civilians were taking shelter. Murdered civilians in wooden coffins carried and placed in common grave. Bodies of women and children in grave. Military medical personnel notes down the counting of victim. Frozen corpses of men, women, and children are carried from building to the common grave. Priest conducts services at the grave.

Date: 1944, December 30
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044511
View of dead Belgian men, women and children murdered by the Germans in Stavelot, Belgium.

German Atrocities in Stavelot, Belgium. Four coffins. View of dead Belgian women and children murdered by retreating Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. The Germans had thrown hand grenades into basements where the civilians had sought refuge. U.S. soldier looks at the dead bodies. Weeping women, young and old, stand in streets. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, December 30
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050383
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