- Title: Tank Crews
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- Story Text:02:28:45:00 - Airborne Engineers blow bridge, and show the use of Tetrosaul HE, blasting caps, fuse lighters, safety fuse, WW2, 1942/1943, fuzy transfer but oh what footage! Paratroopers pack demo bags with tetrosal HE, affixing demo bags to bridge and RUN! Prima cord, step by step how all the explosives and fuses are set and tied and how they were carried into battle, reserve parachutes, Troopers study mock up life sized bridge and men jump from mock up fusilage, climb bridge and plant charges. Boarding C-47, chutes are checked, C-47 taxis and takes off, engineers jump and hit DZ, Spilling the air from their chtues and getting out of their harnesses, NON folding stock M-1A carbines-this is earlt war and NOT as used in the ETO-this is Stateside training footage. Gi Paratroopers in M-42 jump suits with D ring helmets (D bale).
05:59:32:23 - LIB 3754: M24 Medium tank, Germany 1945, M4s move down ruined street, M26 Heavy tank fires at snipers, M36 TD moving down street, clean transfer, Shotup Opelblitz with body of driver laying in street, spires of the cathedral in the background as gis move up and fire on snipers. Germans surrender to gis, M26 fires as spent shell goes flying out the rear of tank, burning Panther, M26 transverses and finds targets, M4 fires it's MGs at snipers, gi officer motions men forward. The street is lined with M4s, MG guuner fires weapon from brick pile, re cocking MG, gis firing at German staff car, Panther crew trys to bail out as panther burns, Gis and medic move down ruined street under fire, take cover, German propaganda posters on wall, firing at German caught in open, gis break down door to search building, officer and radio man talk to others on set, M26 fires on buildings and knocks down building, gis move into cellar and past flattened german bodies, German woman is comforted as she has been hit.
06:12:34:06 - LIB6240, ww2 1945 US and Russians meet at the Elbe River, good transfer, etinic russians (eastern looking), PPSH burp guns, German woudned are evacuated from barge to shore, adhoc dressing station.
06:15:55:10 - LIB6241 US and Russians talk in street, US cavalry officer looking like Robert Duval in Apocilypse now, Germans dig graves by road side under watchful eye of Russians and Gis, they are actually exhuming a grave for some reason and the remains are removed carefully, 1945, smoking M4s in forest, flames shoot up to the sky, small German village burns in the distance, medic tends to wounded wounded gi spits up and is in great pain, medics place him in jeep, note markgins on helmet of jeep driver. Gis try to save tank crewmen from burning M4. Gi with M3 Grease gun, Badly wounded tankers, smoke shells explodes on hill side to mask attack, MG gunner lays down fire as medic tends to wounded. Clean transfer,
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