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The True Glory 1945: Reel-5
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keywords: WWII, European Theater, Combat In Europe, Operation Cobra, 761st Tank Battalion, Operation Luttich, Battle For Saint-Lo, German POWs
Synopsis: Detailing the WWII Invasion of Western Europe and combat in Europe with scenes of Operation Cobra, tank crews of the all-Black 761st Tank Battalion, liberated towns greet the 3rd Army, Operation Luttich, fall of Saint-Lo to allied forces, German forces begin to surrender and more...(read more)
- Date: 1945
- Duration: 00:07:58
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Europe
The True Glory 1945 Reel-5
Shot List:
R5:00:00:17:17
Operation Cobra codename for offensive launched by the First United States Army seven weeks after D-Day. CU of the end of barrel of large artillery gun as it is raised and fired. U.S. tank and troops advancing, Image Of General Omar Bradley. 1st U.S. Army troops fight their way into Saint-Lo, tank with white invasion star fires gun, explosion as shell strikes building. Germans surrender in Saint-Lo. 1st U.S. Army troops searching building by building in Saint-Lo. Scenes of Germans surrendering with long line of German POWs captured in Saint-Lo. War refugees returning to St-Lo.
R5:00:01:40:20
Tank crews of the all Black 761st Tank Battalion some relaxing and others cleaning the bore of a tank cannon. Tanks of the U.S. 3rd Armored Division advancing. General George S. Patton wearing his iconic pearl handle pistols looking through binoculars. Tanks of Patton's 3rd Army roll through liberated villages and greeted by throngs of people in Rennes, France waving, cheering and dancing in the streets.
R5:00:03:20:14
Operation Luttich codename of the German counter-attack during the Battle of Normandy, which took place around the American positions near Mortain from 7 August to 13 August 1944. The offensive is also referred to by Americans as the Mortain counter-offensive. The German 7th army mounts an offense against the American forces in Mortain. Allied infantry is pinned down by artillery fire near Mortain. RAF Typhoon fighters strafe German positions with rocket fire. Royal Air Force RAF Typhoon fighter planes are armed, take off, and strafe the German 7th Army near Mortain. American Army troops fire artillery, mortars, soldier fires a Bazooka, tank firing, machine gun crew firing 50-cal machine. All of this firepower stopped the German Mortain offense.
R5:00:05:24:03
Map of Allied Forces and Germany Forces after Operation Luttich, codename of the German Mortain counter-attack, failed. After the fall of Saint-Lo, American forces captured Argentan, British forces captured Falaise and the German 7th Army was trapped in the Falaise Pocket. Battle of the Falaise Pocket also know as the Falaise Gap in WW2. The Allied forces prepare massive artillery guns and air power to destroy the encircled German 7th Army trapped in the Falaise Pocket. German soldiers run to surrender.
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