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Battle Of The Bulge The Enemy Strikes
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keywords: wwii, european theater, battle of the bulge, m1 garand rifle, german blitzkrieg, pow massacre, general dwight d. eisenhower
Synopsis: In a last gasp effort Germany unleashes the blitzkrieg that smashes through the defenses of the American First Army in the Belgian Ardennes sector of the Western Front driving deep into Luxenberg and Belgium in December 1944...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:10:41
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Belgium
Battle Of The Bulge - The Enemy Strikes
August 1944, French people line streets to greet arriving American troops with hugs and kisses. French women holding American flag, American GI displays a captured Nazi flag. Crowds give "V for victory" sign. Blurred image turns into gruesome image of the face of dead American soldier. Bodies of two dead American soldiers on litters. U.S. Army Medic tending wounded soldier. U.S. Infantry soldiers and tanks advance across battlefield and into village. U.S. soldier firing M1 rifle from window of building, close-up of soldier firing M1 Garand rifle from behind low stone wall. Soldiers fire mortar, shows explosion. Army Chaplain checks body of fallen American soldier, Chaplain kneels to read last rites.
German Officers looking at field maps. Shows German tanks and troops moving into the Ardennes Forest under cover of fog and overcast weather. Brief image of V-2 rocket in flight. German tanks and troops advance under protection of creeping artillery barrage. Shows burning and destroyed American military equipment. Scenes of the Malmedy Massacre of December 17, 1944. Bodies of captured American soldiers and Belgium civilians machine gunned to death by the Kampfgruppe Peiper, 1st SS Panzer Division. Shows Nazi 1st SS Panzer Corp troops lighting up cigarettes taken from bodies of dead American soldiers.
Retreating Americans burn supplies that could not be moved to the rear. Surrounded and cutoff U.S. soldiers fight to halt the German advance. Anti-aircraft guns fired point blank at advancing German tanks. Intense infantry combat battle scenes. Ground to air scenes American aircraft engage the German Luftwaffe in aerial dog fights. Two American soldiers drink coffee in snow covered machine gun nest, American soldier in snow covered foxhole. Soldiers slowly moving through snow covered woods. General Eisenhower talk with American soldiers on the front lines in Belgium. Scenes of the bodies of dead American soldiers killed in the Battle of The Bulge.
Shot List:
00:00:50;06
American GI's kiss French women
00:00:57;02
French woman holds American flag, American soldier with captured Nazi flag
00:01:12;09
Crowds waves and give hand sign "V for Victory"
00:01:17;03
Blurred image turns into gruesome image of the face of dead American soldier
00:02:14;10
U.S. soldier firing M1 rifle from window of building
00:02:16;09
Close-up of soldier firing M1 Garand rifle
00:02:26;12
Army Chaplain checks body of dead American soldier
00:02:32;23
Army Chaplain kneeling on battlefield, reading last rites
00:02:56;05
German Officers looking at field maps
00:03:12;05
Massive force of German tanks
00:03:33;15
German Army Troops moving under cover of fog and overcast skies
00:03:52;09
Animated map Western Front WWII December 1944
00:04:19;15
German blitzkrieg attack that smashed through the defenses of the American First Army in the Belgian Ardennes sector of the Western Front
00:04:55;02
Burning and destroyed American tanks, half-tracks, trucks, jeep on French road
00:05:27;07
Captured American soldiers
00:05:34;18
Scenes depict Malmedy Massacre of December 17, 1944
00:05:45;12
Bodies of captured American POWs executed by the Germans
00:05:57;21
Belgium civilians being buried in mass grave
00:06:16;02
German Soldiers smoking cigarettes robbed from American dead
00:06:32;13
Retreating American Soldiers, burning of supplies to deny capture by Germans
00:07:17;02
Surrounded and cutoff U.S. soldiers fight to halt the German advance
00:07:49;03
Close-up American Infantry soldiers firing rifles
00:08:02;16
Ground to air scenes, American planes engage the German Luftwaffe in aerial combat or dog fights
00:08:32;05
Two American soldiers drink coffee in snow covered machine gun nest
00:08:38;11
Soldier in snow covered foxhole
00:08:41;04
Soldiers cautiously move across snow covered wooded area
00:08:55;01
General Dwight D. Eisenhower talks with soldiers on front lines
00:09:15;00
German soldiers pass destroyed American tank
00:09:27;23
German soldier gives arm signal to advance
00:09:57;03
Bodies of American soldiers killed in combat with advancing Germans
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