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German forces invade Belgium as British and French retreat during the battle of France in World War II
Film begins showing formation of German bombers in flight. Next, British and French troops are seen retreating under fire across a river using inflatable dinghys. British artillery fires guns from sparse tree line. German troops crossing a river, in small inflatable boats, under heavy Allied artillery fire. German soldiers launch boats next to a destroyed bridge over a river. British artillery firing from tree line. Shells striking near the German forces by the river. German soldiers in Einheits-Pkw field cars ford a shallow river. German troops unroll a spool of communications wire upon the ground using a rolling dispenser. Sd.Kfz.11 German half-track pulling a 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 18 (heavy field howitzer) up a muddy hill. Soldiers moving in a river aboard a Sd.Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. A armored car. A Panzer tank being offloaded from a barge. Various German artillery firing, including a siege mortar, with their shells exploding on targets. German soldier holds his ears as heavy gun is fired. German troops, with shells bursting near them in water, carry timber to repair bridge. Line of Panzer tanks advancing. German heavy gun firing. Silhouette of tank treads moving through fire. A rocket sails through the air and strikes ground. Many rounds of machine gun tracer bullets seen in night. Fires consuming numerous buildings in Louvain (Leuven), Belgium. A dead horse on the street. Inhabitants fleeing the city on foot, bicycles, and in cars. View from distance of heavy black smoke over the city. Closeups of burning buildings. Police help an injured woman lying in grass beside a path. Glimpse of another woman lying on a stretcher. More scenes of fires. In Louvain, the tower of St. Peter's Church crashes in flames. More views of refugees in countryside, continuing to walk away from the city. One is a young girl with a wooden leg using a cane. German troops entering the city. German troops, without helmets, manually moving an artillery piece along a path. A soldier seated, sleeping, at side of path. Two soldiers asleep on a motorcycle and sidecar. Many views of German soldiers sleeping beside the path. Scene shifts to black smoke billowing from burning oil storage facility at Antwerp, torched by Allied forces in retreat. Aerial views from German Henschel He 126A-1 reconnaissance airplane, of Brussels, which was spared from destruction. German forces seen moving in the city. Shadow of reconnaissance airplane seen on ground as it flies over the city. Street level view of German forces in various vehicles driving on city street and others in countryside. Some troops on horseback and on bicycles. White smoke rising from industrial facility. A sign identifies the city of Sedan, Ardennes, France. A building smoking after being shelled. huge fires burning in Sedan. View from Meuse River of fires burning in Sedan. (Allied forces retreated to Dunkirk, from where many were safely evacuated to Britain.)
The story of AFN ( American Forces Network) Radio. Founding announced in 1942. First broadcast in 1943; growth in 1944.
U.S. Army soldier reads newspaper while listening to radio. Soldiers doing their respective chores, listen to AFN (American Forces Network) Radio. General Marshall and General Eisenhower announce the creation of AFN, in 1942. July 4, 1943, the first broadcast of AFN. General Eisenhower mingling with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division, on the eve of D-day. U.S. B-26 aircraft in flight. United States soldiers aboard landing craft and wading ashore at Normandy, France, on D-day, June 6, 1944. Soldiers tuning radios in the field. United States Sherman tanks and infantry move along country road in France. Audio includes portions from AFN broadcasts, including an announcer saying "You are listening to AFN Paris. This is the American Forces Network, on the road to Berlin." Road sign points to St. Lo. Group of U.S. soldiers gathered around a jeep with a radio, listening to AFN, in Germany. (World War II period).
American troops welcomed in France, but suffer casualties when Germans counterattack in December 1944.
American troops welcomed in village, by Nuns and children, and in Paris, France, in August, 1944. December 16, 1944, German counterattack causes American casualties. Dead and wounded shown being picked up on stretchers. American troops advancing across fields.Tanks and burning buildings. Americans fight in streets of town and from trenches, with snow on ground. Chaplain prays over body of fallen American soldier. More views of U.S. wounded on stretchers. German officers led by General Manteuffel planning actions. German home front civilian guards (Volkssturm national militia) seen on parade. German Tiger II tanks of s.Pz.Abt.503 parade in a training area. German SS troops advance during the Battle of the Bulge. German "buzz bomb" shown in flight. Smoke rises from buzz bomb strike on town. (World War II period).
German U-Boat U-967 returns to Port at Toulon, France, after a patrol in May 1944, during World War II.
Opening scene shows the German submarine U-967 returning to Port after a patrol in the Western Mediterranean, in May, 1944, during World War 2. The boat's Captain, Kapitanleutnant Albrecht Brandi is seen in the conning tower, wearing a white cap. Glimpse of the U-boats emblem, a four-leaf Clover superimposed over the numeral 7, is seen on the side of the boat. Closeup of Captain Brandi wearing his Knights Cross with Oak Leaves and swords (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern) awarded during this latest Patrol (in which they torpedoed the U.S. Destroyer, USS Fechteler, on May 5, 1944). Extreme closeup of Brandi. Closeups of several of his officer crewmen. Scene shifts to a pier at the German occupied Naval Base in Toulon, France, Where Kapitanleutnant Brandi receives a large bouquet of flowers and a congratulatory hug and kiss from a young woman. Closeup of Brandi holding the bouquet and smiling.
The first American military cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, France, established on June 8, 1944, in World War II
View from a 4-engine airplane in flight over altocumulus clouds. Setting sun creates pink colors. Scene changes abruptly to views, inland from Omaha Beach, at Colleville-sur-Mer, France, of the temporary military battlefield cemetery established by the U.S. First Army, on June 8, 1944, right after the Allied invasion of Normandy, in World War 2. Simple wooden crosses mark the graves of the fallen Americans, each identified by one of their dog tags fastened to the marker.
Canadian troops wade ashore from landing craft on Juno Beach in Normandy, France, June 6, 1944.
View of Canadian troops on D-Day huddled in a landing craft approaching Juno beach in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944, in World War 2. The landing craft reaches the beach and all the Canadian infantry leave the boat, two or three at a time, and wade ashore during the invasion of Europe by Allied forces. Steel obstacles placed by the German forces can be seen on the beach. Several houses, stand along the beach. Two other landing craft with Canadian soldiers arrive near beach and soldiers wade ashore. The troops advance on the beach.
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