Victory In The West - Sieg Im Westen Reel-8

Shot List:

r8:01:05:50:15

VS, German combat engineering troops build and repair bridges. Train locomotive pulling train cars over one of newly built bridges. German soldiers cleaning their rifles. Scenes of workers in German ammunition and armament factories. CU, Chief of Armament Production Artillery German General Friedrich Fromm and aide at desk. CU, German Generals Walter Weiss and Hermann Balck leaders of Second and Ninth German armies. German soldiers living Bivouac life, shaving, getting haircut, bathing, reading letter, washing dog, clothes, cleaning weapons. Scenes of German soldiers taking care of horses. German soldiers at mail call.

r8:01:10:14:21

Montage of exterior and interior of French Cathedral; shows church organ, cut to scenes of German homeland towns and villages. CU, people in Germany listen to radio announcement in front of radio store. MS, German infantry advances.

r8:01:12:30:04

Animation map, attack scheme on Somme, Oise-Aisne Canal and Weygand Line. Battered sign reads Hangest, a commune in Northern France. Street fighting in Hangest. SIG 33 Bison German self-propelled howitzer artillery destroying a building. German tanks and infantry in heavy street fighting advancing through a French town. Buildings are reduced to rubble.

r8:01:13:59:01

MS, Junkers Ju 87 Stukas in attack formation fly past captive observation balloon. LS, ten Junkers Ju 87 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 Heinkel HE-111 German bomber loosing sticks of bombs. AV, nine Heinkel HE-111 in flight. MS, follow shot of bombs dropping. MS, Dornier Do 17 flying into clouds. CU, int of pilot's cabin. Flight of British Spitfires attacking German bombers. MS, Messerschmitt fighter climbs away to gain altitude. A British Spitfire trailing smoke and crashing.