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History of 1st Infantry Division, or Big Red One, focusing on deployment and action during Operation Torch in North Africa

Colonel William Wilson Quinn introduces an episode of "The Big Picture" that tells about the history of the 1st Infantry Division of the United States, called the "Big Red One." We see the boots and the shoes that 1st Infantry soldiers wore beginning with the Revolutionary War, through the Civil War, the First World War and the Second World War. Recruits are shown in training during World War 2 before deploying overseas in Operation Torch and the invasion of North Africa. Commanding General of the 1st Infantry Division, General Terry Allen, is seen during the Division's deployment to North Africa in World War II. Soldiers relaxing aboard troop ship. Naval barrage at night followed by amphibious assault on coast of Algeria. Animation shows the target areas of the division as they capture Oran. German counter attack is seen with bombers, tanks, and artillery. American soldier standing with rifles shooting at low-flying German aircraft that are bombing their position. Scenes of German and American gun crews firing. Nazi German General Rommel seen in his staff car. Animation shows route of the Division with others towards the North. Heavy nighttime gunfire is seen. American soldiers meet and greet British troops of General Montgomery's 8th Army.

Date: 1942, November
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028433
United States Army soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division attack during the Battle of Troina in Sicily, in World War 2

Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division during the Battle of Troina in 1943, Sicily. Boats and ships at a harbor. Soldiers load luggage on the ships. Ships underway at sea. Soldiers in jeeps on the street. Houses along the sides of the street. High altitude view of the houses and the city. Map shows the battlefields of the 1st Infantry. Soldiers fire on the mountains of Troina. An officer talks on phone. Wrecked houses after the war.

Date: 1943, August
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028434
Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division in England and during the invasion of Normandy and subsequent campaigns toward Germany (WW2)

Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division training in England under General Clarence R Huebner, in preparation for the D-Day Normandy invasion in World War II. U.S. Navy ships underway at sea. Heavy naval guns bombard the coast of France on D-Day. U.S. Army soldiers seen during assault on Omaha beach with heavy losses on D-Day. U.S. soldiers and tanks encounter heavy German resistance in the "hedge rows." American soldiers digging trenches with shovels and picks and treating wounded comrade. Dead German soldier lying in street as Americans enter the town of Caumont (Caumont l'Eventé). Frenchman civilian pours wine for American soldier after they liberated Caumont l'Eventé from the entrenched German forces. An American helps a French civilian woman to reach a safe place crossing rubble. Damaged French houses along the sides of street. During rest, a soldier gives another a haircut, and another writes a letter. U.S. Air Force B-17s fly overhead and bomb near St. Lo, France on July 25, 1944. Other U.S. Army artillery units, the 4th and 9th Divisions, and General Patton's tanks provided support so the 1st Infantry (First Infantry or Big Red One) could occupy the area. Army combat engineers dig up mines and use construction equipment to clear debris. Wrecked houses and rubble. U.S. soldiers keep advancing through towns and eat and rest as they can. Road sign reads: "Coutances." First Infantry goes through Mortain, Etampes, Meaux, Soissons and across the Belgian border. German prisoners of war walk with their hands raised. German soldier digging out of fox hole. Siegfried Line and dragons teeth. Strong German resistance encountered at Aachen. Tanks fire in the field. House to house fighting in Aachen. Surrender of Aachen. A German flag laying in the street is run over by a U.S. military vehicle. German resistance is heavy during battle scenes in Battle of Hürtgen Forest. German and American artillery are seen in Hurtgen Forest. U.S. wounded treated. The 1st Division is pulled out for rest at the rear, in Belgium.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 5 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028435
German troops building railway embankment and capturing Soviet prisoners in the Eastern Front (WW2)

German troops in the Eastern Front during the winter of 1941-1942 (World War II). A German soldier keeps watch in the Eastern Front (“Ostfront” in German). Two German soldiers walk in the snow. Troops walk with horses under extremely cold conditions, with temperature as low as -45°C. Soldiers cover their mouths with cloths to protect their faces from extreme temperatures. Soldiers build houses of made of ice blocks and a bridge. Railway embankment construction and ice blocks. German soldiers lift blocks of ice from a lake. Men building a railway embankment. Soldiers on tanks. Soldiers repair a tank track. Soldiers escort wagons. Snow covered tanks and field. German soldiers assume prone position in the snow. German tank fires. Germans attack Russian positions. Soldiers firing with rifles. Germans move forward on the front. German soldiers in white winter camouflage suits rush towards a barbed wire fence. A soldier cuts a barbed wire entanglement on the field. Firing and bombardment in the field. German soldiers clear a village. Soldiers with machine guns facing the window inside a house. Soldiers stand on top of moving tanks. German soldiers use a machine gun in the snow. Soldiers take the prisoners from the snow. Panzer tanks penetrate Soviet positions. An injured Soviet prisoner with head bandage. German troops lead away captured Soviet prisoners.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675028442
German troops carry field post man, transport squadrons bring reserves to the Eastern Front (WWII)

German troops on the Eastern Front during World War II. Snow covered area. Germans chop down a pine tree to use as a Christmas tree on the Russian front in 1941. German soldiers rush out of the bunker entrance. A field post soldier arrives in motorcycle with a sidecar. Soldiers lift the field post man, triumphantly carrying him into the bunker. The German transport squadrons bring reserves to the Eastern Front. Soldiers on sledges. German ski patrol encounters Russian forces while towing equipment cross country. Soldiers unload supplies from an aircraft. German troops use reindeer to transport supplies in the snow. The soldiers wear white snow camouflage suits while skiing in the forest. Frozen coniferous trees covered in snow. Whitewashed Pz.38t Czech tank, used by Germans, passes in the snow.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675028443
American women actively working and participating in the National Defense Program of the United States in World War II.

Wartime activities of women in United States during World War 2. American women work in an ammunition factory with men helping with war production. They check the shells at the munitions plant. A woman gives a lecture. A chart on wall. Other women attend the lecture. They wrap surgical dressings for the Red Cross. A woman gives blood to blood bank. Doctor and nurses take the blood in a glass container and put it in a box. The women participate in the defense program and war effort, filling many roles previously occupied by men fighting in World War 2.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028446