Fall of Metz: telephone; German prisoners

Identifier
irn1003043
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.541.1
  • RG-60.3567
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • US Army Air Force, CCU, 4th England (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • United States. Army Air Forces. (Producer)

Scope and Content

Group of GIs review papers, at rail station, gun, group shot. Switchboards in back of truck. Photographer. Tents. GI makies announcement. Cameraman. Wounded soldier. Tank. Phone picked up by GI. Captured German soldiers marched through town as prisoners. African American GI picks up a French girl. Civilians. LS, field across to Metz. Group of GIs. German prisoners in camp. Civilians and GIs. Prisoners exit camp, march in street in column. Group of military officers. GI picks up telephone. Railroad tracks.

Subjects

  • WOUNDED
  • MILITARY OFFICERS
  • TRUCKS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • CAMERA OPERATORS
  • CIVILIANS
  • SWITCHBOARDS
  • RAIL SYSTEMS
  • FRENCH
  • PRISONERS (GERMAN)
  • TANKS
  • FRANCE
  • MARCHING
  • TELEPHONES
  • FIGHTING

Places

  • Metz, France
  • , France

Genre

  • Film
  • Documentary.
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