Combat Bulletin #22: Operations In France etc.

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U.S. Army newsreel Combat Bulletin #22 Operations In France Etc., early September 1944. Title Cards E.T.O.: Operations In France, Capture Of Brest 20,000 Germans Surrender E.T.O.: New Flying Bomb Launching Sites E.T.O.: Allies Move On Germany, American 3rd Army E.T.O.: Airborne Operations Description at the National Archives: "Scope & Content Part 1, artillery and P-47s bombard Brest. Shows German-destroyed railroad yards and a tank destroyer in action. Part 2, a German general surrenders 20,000 troops to Gen. R.C. Macon at Beaugency, France. Enumerates numbers of items surrendered and shows long columns of Germans filing into the city and laying down their arms. Part 3 (Reel 2), Canadian troops occupy a German flying bomb launching site in Flanders and show facilities. Describes the layout of the site and describes the operation of the V-2 and launching apparatus. Part 4, the 3rd Army crosses the Moselle River under a smoke screen and meets the 7th Army in Dijon, France. The British 2nd Army rolls thru Tournai, Belgium (Sept. 3), and fights in Antwerp. Ghent citizens help wipe out final resistance. Part 5 (Reel 3), the 1st Army enters Roetgen and other German border towns without…

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United States. Army

Subjects

Combat Bulletin, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France, Great Britain. -- Army -- Airborne Division, 1st, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Southern, Capitulations, Military, United States. -- Army -- Airborne Division, 101st, World War, 1939-1945, United States. -- Army -- Airborne Division, 82nd, V-2 rocket, Macon, Robert C. (Robert Chauncey), 1890-1980, Gliders (Aeronautics), Operation Market Garden, World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada, Newsreel, United States. Army

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