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U.S. 7th Army soldiers advance and build a bridge across Seltzbach river in Alsace, France during World War II.
United States 7th Army in Alsace, France during World War II. U.S. 36th Division, 141st Regiment soldiers march on both sides of a dirt road. Soldiers march in single file along a narrow forest road as traffic passes in the opposite direction. Soldiers gathered around a damaged German 128 mm Jagdtiger tank destroyer of s.Pz.Jg.Abt. 653 in Soultz-sous-Fôret. Tanks and soldiers halted in a town due to a blown up bridge. Soldiers walk over a steel bridge across Seltzbach river. French civilians help in building the bridge. Quarter ton trucks cross a completed bridge.
U.S. 7th Army soldiers take prisoners and move into a bombed town of Surbourg in Alsace, France during World War II.
United States 7th Army in Alsace, France during World War 2. U.S. 36th Division, 143rd Infantry, 3rd Battalion soldiers march a small group of prisoners cross an open field. Soldiers search the prisoners. They make the prisoners move across the field. M-4 tanks loaded with troops move past damaged buildings in town of Surbourg. Vehicles parked along the street. Vehicles of the 14th Armored Division move through a shelled town. Clouds of dust rise upwards. Bomb damaged buildings in the background. Rubble spread on the ground.
U.S. troops of the 79th Infantry Division engage German forces in the Alsace Front during World War II
Opening shows animated map of Alsace front at junction of Belgium, Germany, and France, in World War 2. Allied forces are schematically shown sweeping toward Wissembourg, Haguenau, and Strasbourg. Next, several U.S. Army M4A3(75) medium tanks are seen driving toward the camera on a rural road, during a pull back by the 7th Army in the first week of January, 1944, from advanced positions at the front. Some are filled with infantry riding atop them. The last of them is seen crossing a bridge 13 miles Northeast of Haguenau. The engineers of the 79th Division place demolition charges to destroy the bridge. Closeup of them placing and then remotely igniting the charge. A huge explosion ensues that completely destroys the bridge. Scene shifts to several U.S. soldiers of an engineer combat battalion preparing 100 pound of TNT in a captured blockhouse at Lauterbach, Alsace. Closeup of engineer carrying the explosives into the blockhouse and preparing the remote detonation device. The engineers string wire in the snow and setup their remote detonation device. One depresses a plunger to ignite the charge and blow up the blockhouse, which explodes in a huge cloud of black smoke. Next, elements of the 79th Infantry Division supported by tanks, are seen moving forward to counter German gains Southeast of Haguenau. (On January 5th the German forces had established a bridgehead across the Rhein (Rhine) river near Gansheim, Germany.) Scene shifts to Drusenheim, Germany where U.S. forces are engaging a Battalion of occupying German forces. Machine gun fire is heard constantly, as American infantry battle the hidden German defenders and tanks drive them from defensive positions near a bridge at the far end of town. Infantry move from behind tanks toward the bridge and are seen crossing it. An M4A3(75) medium tank risks crossing the narrow bridge and is immediately followed by many 79th Infantry troops. The battle continues on the other side of the bridge.