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Military Newsreels 1944 Issue 63
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keywords: wwii, germany, cologne, aachen, british bombing campaign, mitchell b-25 bomber, denmark, copenhagen, danish resistance, saboteurs, sabotage, belgium, netherlands, scheldt estuary, canadian first army, churchill tank, operation infatuate, dive bombers, rocket-firing ships
Synopsis: Allies Bomb Western Front, Danish Underground Hits Back Against Nazi Tyranny, Allies Fight To Liberate The Scheldt...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:07:37
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands
Allies Bomb Western Front
British planes bomb Cologne Germany. Aerial views of Aachen Germany after bombing by Allied bombers. American made Mitchell B-25 bomber bombs a bridge over the Meuse River (Maas River).
Danish Underground Hits Back Against Nazi Tyranny
Danish Saboteurs Set Fire To German Armament Factory In Copenhagen Denmark. The German Gestapo retaliate by destroying stores, film studios, burning many of the rides in Tivoli Gardens amusement park and imposing an 8:00 PM curfew decree. The Danish people called a general strike. Ships and boats scuttled by the Royal Danish Navy in Copenhagen harbor as German troops invaded the Naval Dockyard on August 29, 1943. Various scenes of Copenhagen as the Danish people opposed German Nazi occupation.
Allies Fight To Liberate The Scheldt
The Battle of the Scheldt was a series of military operations by the Canadian First Army consisting of Canadians, British and Polish troops. It was necessary to clear both banks of the Scheldt estuary in order to open the Port of Antwerp. British troops moving in to clear Tilburg; Dutch people of Tilburg warming greeting the liberating British soldiers. Shows Bren gun carriers moving along railroad tracks toward Hertogenbosch in the southern Netherlands. British troops cross canal in small boat under cover of machine gun fire from a Churchill tank firing from a wooed area. Hertogenbosch is captured after intense battle. Shows capture of German soldiers and a capture of a complete German Red Cross unit consisting of several vehicles.
Operation Infatuate was the code name for the invasion of the German held Dutch Island of Walcheren at the mouth of the Scheldt. Walcheren Island was pounded by Allied bombers that destroyed the German coastal guns. Shows bombardment of Walcheren by long range artillery guns firing opposite of Flushing (Vlissingen). Troops of the British 4th Special Service Brigade (Royal Marines) in LTVs (Buffaloes) shoving off for an amphibious assault on Walcheren Island at Westkapelle . Dive bombers spearhead the attack.
At Flushing (Vlissingen) the retreating Germans damaged the harbor. No. 4 Commando Unit of the British 4th Special Service Brigade (Royal Marines) and 155th Infantry BDE walking through the mud flats at Flushing (Walcheren Island) to reach solid ground. Intense fighting and capture of the village of Flushing on Walcheren Island. Shows captured German POWs.
Dive bombers and rocket ships attack the village of Westkapelle on Walcheren Island. British Royal Marine capture Westkapelle and with the other Canadian troops, ended the Battle of the Scheldt.
