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  • Short Summary

    US troops arrive in a French town; Germans lie dead by road on outskirts.

  • Description

    Unused / unissued material - date and locations unclear or unknown.

    France - 1944 or 1945?

    Soldiers (US?) march along street in French town.

    Shots taken from a moving tank (?) as we travel along country road.

    German soldiers lie dead by roadside. US tanks and military vehicles move along roads. Long lines of troops march along roads on outskirts of village. Several shots of soldiers walking through town streets. Locals watch and go about their business.

    Locals and firemen clear rubble from bomb damaged buildings and houses.

    US soldiers catnap on and around their tank that is covered with camouflage webbing. Tank guns (mobile guns?) fire in a field.

    Shots of a railway track torn from the ground and curving up after bomb damage. Military vehicles drive through village and along countryside roads.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1953.12
    Media URN:
    61608
    Group:
    Unissued unused
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    Sound:
    Mute
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:04:09:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:58:44:00 / 02:02:53:00
    Canister:
    UN 841 C

Comments (1)

  1. jamied says

    "Soldiers (US?) march along street" - the shot is of several German POWs, being followed by a gun-wielding US soldier.

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