SIEG IM WESTERN (Reel 8 of 12)

Creator: National Archives and Records Administration

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 44317, LI 242-MID-6063 - SIEG IM WESTERN (Reel 8 of 12) - DVD Copied by Nick Stoller. Series: Motion Picture Films From G-2 Army Military Intelligence Division, compiled 1918 - ca. 1947. German. Reel 8: VS, German railroad engineer troops build and repair bridges; locomotive pulls train over one of newly built bridges. SEQ Ints: German ammunition and armament factories. CU, Chief of Armament Production Artillery - General Fromm and aide at desk. CU, General Weitz and Kreiss, leaders of Second and Ninth German armies. SEQ, German soldiers living Bivouac life. Montage of exts and ints, French Cathedral, church organ, scenes of Cerman homeland towns and villages. CU, German street audiences in Cermany listen to radio announcement in front of radio store. MS, German infantry advances. Animation, attack scheme on Somme, Oise-Aisne Canal andWeygand Line. German infantry in street fights. MS, eight Stukas in attack formation fly past captive observation balloon. LS, ten Stukas in attack formation above clouds. AV, French town taken from inside HE-111 with heavy anti- aircraft fire speeding towards plane. French anti-aircraft batteries in action. MS, three HE-111 loosing sticks of bombs. AV, nine HE-111 in flight. MS, follow shot of bombs dropping. MS, Dornier 17 flying into clouds. CU, int of pilot's cabin, Spitfires attack. MS, Messerschmitt fighter climbs away to gain altitude. ELS, aerial combat.