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Germans execute Manstein strategy circumnavigating maginot line and attacking France through the Ardennes

A French 4-star General steps from a German JU-52 trimotor transport plane and is met by German officers. They exchange salutes. Animated map shows execution of the Manstein strategy, with massed German Panzer units circumnavigating the Maginot line and attacking through the Ardennes Forest, converging in a thrust to Abbeville on the French coast. This is carried out by German General Heinz Guderian and the 29th Panzer Corps. German forces are seen moving rapidly in trucks, motocycles, on horseback (cavalry) and even with horse-drawn wagons. Pz.IV tanks of a Panzer division are seen on the move. Soldiers on Pz.III tank and horses move on the field. German infantry marches casually along a road and into a French town, accompanied by a marching band. Houses along the street. Soldiers on Sdkfz.263 8-wheeled armored car of 2.Pz.Div in a field. Other soldiers move on tanks. Germans shell installations at a French port city. German officers ride into a captured French port city. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675028017
U.S. Army 6th Field Artillery batteries hold position under heavy German shelling near Exermont, Ardennes, France.

World War I: U.S. Army 6th Field Artillery batteries fire at German enemy positions in Exermont, Ardennes, France, across a wide field and valley. U.S. Army artillery being fired, and explosions across the field as shells impact. American doughboys hold position under heavy German shelling. View of additional artillery and horse and foot traffic on the road below in the valley, beneath the shelling. U.S. Artillery guns are rolled down the hill and moved to new positions. World War 1 U.S. Army soldiers carry wounded soldier on a stretcher, moving on a road around the bodies of two dead combatants, dead horses, and a tipped horse carriage.

Date: 1918, October 5
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029599
German forces counterattack Allied forces in battle of Ardennes during World War II.

At start of film, a German 10.5cm self propelled tank destroyer is seen covered with foliage moving in a field during German counterattack (Battle of the Ardennes, also known as the Battle of the Bulge) in World War 2. Closeup of a soldier standing in a Panzer III tank. White smoke rising across the entire background in a scene. A tank destroyer entering a village. Infantry running nearby. German infantry hunkering down in a field near a house. Soldiers crawling on hands and knees as they engage in fighting from house to house. Suddenly they rise up and run toward the front of the house, behind a passing German tank. German soldiers firing rifles from inside a round open turret in an armored vehicle equipped several installed machine guns. German soldiers lying low in a field as a tank burns behind them. A soldier fires a panzerfaust anti tank weapon. A huge explosion raises dense white and black smoke. German infantry run from a trench as another large explosion occurs. A German tank destroyer moves slowly past buildings, followed by a half track armored personnel carrier covered with foliage camouflage. Infantry walking behind armored vehicles. Soldiers running past rubble in house to house fighting. They jump through a destroyed brick wall. American soldiers being taken as prisoners as they step from a building and walk with their hands over their heads. A group of American soldiers surrendering with a white flag. American prisoners in formation on a cobblestone street. A destroyed tank upside down. A knocked out American tank with "America First" stenciled on its side. German soldiers look at hole in its side. One puts his hand in it. Soldiers surronding a captured U.S. jeep. One, with a bloodied face, uses a field phone. SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Josef "Sepp" Dietrich, the 4 Star Commander of the German 6th Panzer Army is seen stepping from his staff car. He watches as German infantry walk past him. Closeup of Josef Dietrich. Line of infantry continuing to move as they pass him. Infantry moving along wifh armored vehicles and trucks. A soldier looks up at the sky as a German V-1 Buzz Bomb passes overhead. An American rifle stuck in the ground at a field next to a Browning M1917 machine gun. German soldiers look over the field where dead American soldiers lie amidst destroyed equipment and weapons. A burning U.S. tank. Several captured U.S. M3 Stuart tanks lined up in a field.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675078945
German forces initiate offensive in Battle of Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge) during World War II

As film begins, two German soldiers are seen riding on a tank destroyer with a toy stuffed bear fastened to its gun barrel,during German counter offensive (Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Battle of the Ardennes) in World War 2. Camera focuses on the toy bear as the tank destroyer passes. View from rear of a vehicle of road behind crowded with utility vehicles, motorcycles, and trucks transporting troops. American soldiers taken as prisoners of war (POW) march through muddy field. They march under guard along a muddy road past heavily camouflaged German military vehicles and through woods. Closeups of some prisoners. A flight of 4 single engine aircraft flies overhead. Narrator says they are American airplanes. German soldiers, in a field, fire an anti-aircraft gun at the planes. Black smoke rises from a downed airplane. Closeup of SS soldiers manning anti-aircraft gun. Explosion from a bomb bursting in woods. German soldiers wave as they are buzzed by friendly German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft. A formation of German aircraft overhead. A German officer steps from a camouflaged staff car to point at the planes. A soldier on a motorcycle looks up at the airplanes in the sky. A soldier riding on a canvas covered tank destroyer accepts a baked good from a woman on a roadside. He waves at group of well-wishers who stand with baskets of gifts for the soldiers. View from back of the tank destroyer of children waving at it. A dozen German soldiers riding on a Tiger II tank. Field Marshal Walter Model, overall Commander of 5th and 6th Panzer Armies, conversing with soldiers and officers in the field.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675078946
The Battle of the Bulge in Ardennes, Belgium, 1944 (WW2)

Animated map showing disposition of Allied and opposing German forces in Belgium during World War II. Highlighted places include the River Meuse, Bastogne, and Liege. Brief glimpse of German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, commander of the German Army Command in the West. German troops riding through forest over light snow on a King Tiger II tank. The tank churning up dirt and snow at high speed in another scene. German infantry moving through the forest at dusk. Illustrated map shows national flags delineating battle fronts and the German breakout (Bulge in the line) aiming toward Antwerp Harbor through Liege. Next are series of rapidly changing battle scenes showing American troops in house-to-house combat near houses and stores of towns, moving through smoke and mist, one throwing a hand grenade into an apartment building, helping one another move through buildings, setting off explosives, communicating on a field telephone, moving through burning rubble, and running across snow around industrial buildings. Dramatic camera shakes are seen during some of the nearby explosions. Two U.S. soldiers silhouetted against the snow as place a wounded buddy in a sheltered spot. One places a bandage around the neck of the injured soldier. American medics carrying wounded on litters, across a snowy field containing a several fallen soldiers. One soldier calls for a medic. Corpsmen moving on to a new battlefield. U.S. troops firing machine guns from atop Sherman tanks in a city as infantrymen crouch behind the tanks. Glimpse from inside, of a German soldier firing an Mg34 model machine gun out a building window. Embattled American troops and trucks moving past burning buildings. Closeups of American GIs dashing from building to building and firing from improvised shelter. A bazooka fired out a building window strikes a tank, which is seen burning. Individual soldiers running for shelter as Medical Corpsmen carry the wounded on litter the opposite way. Scene shifts to British forces moving in from further North, through the snow. Glimpse of women and children and aged folks, in Belgium, frightened by the goings on. An old woman holds a small girl who is crying. British infantry advancing into action across a snowy field. A British machine gunner firing from a protected position. U.S. troops entrenched in deep snow. December 24th, clearing weather allowed some Allied air support to aid the troops. Glimpse of aircraft contrails. Formations of Allied aircraft overhead. Aerial view of a formation of British Hawker Typhoon fighter bombers in flight. View from a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in flight with others creating thick contrails at high altitude. Pilot and copilot in cockpit of a bomber in flight. American soldiers on the ground watching with binoculars. U.S. Army Air Forces Republic P-47 Thunderbolt overhead, break out of formation and dive to attack German ground targets. American GIs on the ground cheer as they watch. A huge explosion takes place near an American crew manning a heavy gun pointing point blank with zero elevation. American soldiers load rockets into a truck-mounted launcher. Several truck-mounted launchers firing their rocket barrages. U.S. infantry advancing atop tanks, in armored personnel carriers, and on foot. They carry axes, shovels, and similar tools along with their weapons. Army trucks entering a town. The infantry moving through a forest. More troops on vehicles of all kinds moving into a town.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060112
Scenes of Sedan France (Ardennes department), soon after the Armistice ending World War 1. French soldiers returning.

French Men in Sedan, France stand near shops and businesses near the Meuse River. People stand on the street. Other people walk along the street. Buildings along the streets of Sedan, France. The statue of Turenne in Sedan town square. The main town hall building with letters "R F" on it. Smiling French troops walk by quickly as they return following the World War 1 armistice.

Date: 1918, November
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027355