A film titled 'Pacific: Clean-up at Aitape' shows Animated map of New Guinea and Aitape. U.S.troops wading through the jungles at Aitape, New Guinea during World War 2. Natives carry supplies from coastal area to the commandment post. C-47 cargo plane drops supplies. Soldiers retrieve and stack supplies.
A film titled 'Northern France and Belgium' shows United States 1st Army Engineers construct spans over a river in France during World War 2. Soldiers cross over Pontoon and Bailey bridges. Tanks fire fiercely at the enemy targets, causing fire and smoke.
U.S. 1st Army troops pass an abandoned German pill box near Cambrai, on their way to the Belgian border, during World War 2. U.S. tanks advancing along road to Saint-Quentin on September 1, 1944.Road sign points toward St. Quentin. Some French civilians watch as troops ride into the city aboard military vehicles. American flag is seen at window of a building.September 2nd, lead elements of the 1st Army pass road sign marking boundary between France and Belgium. A road sign on ground at the old formal border reads "Douane Belge." American tanks speed across Belgian fields in pursuit of retreating German soldiers.US units firing tank guns and machine guns at German positions.Smoke rising.Destroyed and burning German artillery, tanks, halftracks, and other vehicles and equipment along side of road.Destroyed civilian automobile and wagons. American troops entering town where Belgian flags fly. German Army Captain, accompanied by U.S. troops, urges his soldiers to surrender.He steps over wire fencing into a field where German soldier are coming forward. View of numerous German prisoners of war being held in a meadow.
United States 1st Army soldiers attack a farm house near Franco-Belgian border to drive out German troops during World War II. Soldiers fire as tanks roll and bombs explode. German troops and equipment are captured by Americans.
September 4, 1944, U.S. troops are being briefed and then set out to patrol and investigate report of Nazi massacre of French civilians at village of Martincourt, in World War 2. An armed Free French woman with armband, stands looking over the remains of the village. A U.S. patrol in a jeep drives through the remains of Martincourt, which had been burned with flamethrowers and its citizens killed and beaten. View inside the burned out church. As1st Army pushes towards Liege and Aachen, other U.S. units seem launching an attack, South of the border, in the area of Sedan, France. U.S. ground troops firing machine guns as USAAF P-47 aircraft dive to bomb and strafe German positions. U.S. troops occupy a town where wrecked German equipment is seen.
Animated map showing American 3rd Army advance toward St. Mihiel, France, during World War 2. Advance elements of General Patton's U.S. 3rd Army cross Meuse River in a French civilian's barge and proceed through town of St. Mihiel. A U.S. Army combat photographer is seen taking pictures at bank of river. U.S. Infantrymen make their way through virtually deserted town of St Mihiel. U.S. field artillery fire on German positions along the Meuse. U.S. infantrymen lying prone beside a large barn.US soldier photographing others as they rest on a sidewalk.Two U.S. soldiers running up and over a wooden bridge.American forces driven back by heavy German resistance and then resume advance after U.S. artillery fire neutralizes defending German forces. However, still under heavy fire, American infantrymen carry small boats to cross the Moselle River. U.S. troops paddle across the river in a boat at Dornot, France, September 1944. Railroad pedestrian crossover bridge visible. (Note: Unit making the river crossing was 5th Division, 11th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, E and F company.Lieutenant Colonel Kelly B, Lemmon Jr. was battalion commander.)
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