Greystone stock footage

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  • Story Text:02:16:15:09 - NC0139 111 ADC 2656 B&W footage: October 15th 1944 ETO The fall of Aachen Germany. good transfer,
    02:00:21:15 - B&W footage: Aachen 1944 old man pushes wooden cart fileld with belongings along a deserted battle ridden street-all along the street is battle debri: jeeps, fox holes, etc.
    02:00:50:15 - B&W footage: 1944 City of Aachen blackened by bombing and shelling, an explosion strikes a building-sending up a bright flash of light-you rarely see an artillery round hit-well here you do!
    02:01:59:19 - B&W footage: AAchen 1944 Tower in the city is hit by Small arms fire, smoke fills the air, what is interesting about this footage is you see the battle happening-gis runnings from house to house trying to escape German sniper bulletts.
    02:03:16:24 - B&W footage: Aachen 1944 M4 moves down main street as gis follow behind, tracers fly down the street hitting German strong points,
    02:03:54:14 - B&W footage: 1944 gis run down war torn street, first one slips and almost falls, M-4 follows in support, Aachen
    02:04:39:08 - B&W Footage: 1944 M10 TD slowly rolls down Aachen street gis follow ever so cautiously. Air recognition panals on rear of M-10s to prevent them from being attacked by Allied aircraft.
    02:05:19:20 - B&W footage: 1944 Aachen M10 TD transverses turret, gi fires thompson into basment window as he and his buddies walk by-as if it were nothing.
    02:05:34:06 - B&W footage: 1944 Aachen gis with 1917 watercooled machine gun carry it on it's tripod, note flash hider on end of barrell. gis stop and set up weapon, water hose falls to the ground and gis sticks hand into metal ammo can, Aachen 1944.
    02:05:44:02 - B&W footage: 1944 gis machinegunners fire into German postions in Aachen, tracers flash by,
    02:05:48:06 - B&W footage: 1944 cu GI firing thompson smg from roof top in Aachen-great shot
    02:05:56:09 - B&W footage: 1944 machine gunner with cigar in mouth, transfer is light here, M-10 moves up with gis walking behind, 1917 MG fires down street-it's tracers light up the frame! Aachen.
    02:06:52:20 - B&W footage: Ramagen/Ludendorf bridge 1945, LS of bridge, then shto of gis scurrying and M-4 making it's way across-note added earth and sand bags to front of M-4 for added protection. the bridge towers have been shot up quite a bit.
    02:07:24:11 - B&W footage: 1945 Ludendorf bridge, from inside the tunnel gis fill the frame with the bridge in the background.
    02:07:28:10 - B&W footage: ETO 1945 pass by gi road block-all wear rain coats and winter clothing, cu on sign that reads: Road under shell fire keep 75 yard interval.
    02:07:35:11 - B&W footage: ETO crowded streets with GI traffic, shot ofUS trucks with bridging equipment i.e. pontoons and rafts, US Army Engineer unit. 1945.
    02:08:02:24 - B&W footage: ETO Army engineers build pontoon bridge across river 1945
    02:08:22:02 - B&W footage: ETO CU GI AA gunner in quad 50 AA half track-he's watching a german buzz bomb as it flys acorss the sky 1945
    02:08:22:02 - B&W footage: ETO buzz bomb flying just overthe top of the bridge-it will crash into the river-which sends up a splash of water. More german bombers try to take uot the bridge, US AA half tracks send up a wall of fire to try and pull them down, Remagen Bridge
    02:09:16:12 - B&W footage: 1945 ETO bomb splashes in the river near the bridge-good CU.
    02:09:16:12 - B&W footage: ETO 1945 CU M4A1 and gi coming across Lundendorf bridge/remagen.
    02:09:23:21 - B&W footage: 1945 ETO US Army engineers weld and rivet trying to reinforce the damaged Ludendorf bridge.
    02:09:35:25 - B&W footage: 1945 ETO jeep traffic makes way across pontoon bridge followed by M-4s, M-4A1s.
    02:10:10:13 - B&W footage: 1945 ETO Ludendorf bridge in ruins-it has finally given way and fallen into the river. The area surrounding the bridge is swarming with gis and medics as some army engineers have been hurt and or killed, a jeep have been crushed by the weight of the falling bridge.
    02:10:18:09 - B&W footage: 1945 ETO Gis strip and go into the river to try and rescue hurt engineers who are in the water. Throwing ropes an engineer is rescued and medics stand by to administer aid. Another engineer is stuck on one of the high beams and must be lowered down by a rope-here you see many instances of gis helping eachtother after this cramatic accident-the collapse of the Ludendorf bridge 1944.
    02:12:39:09 - B&W footage: 1945 ETO Allied Armies drive on Germany. 3rd Army armor fire on German positions in small village. gis run up from behind to take village-cross stream up to their armpits holding their rifles high above to keep them dry.
    02:14:23:28 - B&W footage: ETO French 2nd Armored Div moves up in colum, 1944, on their way to French town of Vetel.
    02:14:44:17 - B&W footage: ETO French 2nd Armored troops firing 1919A4 30 MG belt fed-you can use this for Gis as only the VO tells you they are Fernch and the next frame shows a French officer in a kepi cap. Nice shot of 30 cal MG firing with ammo belt being fed into it.
    02:15:04:02 - B&W footage: ETO French M5 stuarts move across field into town, destroyed German Panther tanks, Frenchmen inspect the ruined tanks, German prisoners are escourted by french troops.
    02:15:40:19 - B&W footage: ETO Aachen, light howitzer tanks fire on German postions.
    02:16:11:26 - B&W footage: ETO CU GI tank commander firing M2 50 cal from top of turret.
    02:16:07:16 - B&W footage: ETO US 60mm mortar team drops bomb down tube and fires-bombs flys out and smoke comes from end of tube.
    02:16:10:16 - B&W footage: ETO 1945, US 1917 watercooled MG team fires from behind small wooden fence.
    02:16:10:16 - B&W footage: ETO 1945, CU on 1917 MG team firing WW2
    02:16:20:14 - B&W footage: ETO 1945 CU on BAR gunner and rifleman firing from behind wire fence by side or road.
    02:16:20:14 - B&W footage: ETO 9th ID BAR gunner with AAAO 9th infantry slogan painted on helmet CU on his helmet as he moves up to a better position. AAAO means Anytime, Anywhere, anyplace, Barnone!
    02:16:22:10 - B&W footage: ETO Old style German farm house burns with smoke pouring from it as 9th ID troops advance with M4 Sherman providing cover fire.
    02:16:36:15 - B&W footage: ETO 1945 Dragons teeth, Siegfried line, Gis and tanks pas through siegfried line. Good coverage of dragons teeth and anti tank ditches. Gis inspecting large abandoned bunker complex. Note bullet holes and shell damge done to bunker.
    02:16:51:28 - B&W footage: ETO 1944 British 2nd Army makes push in Northen Holland, Eindhoven, Nijmegen, Allied air armada flys overhead on way to drop troops for Operation market garden. C-47 on fire flys amid formation then drops slowly and finally crashes into the ground and bursts into flames.
    02:17:55:15 - B&W footage: ETO 1944 Holland, pilot jumps from burning plane, parachutes down, LS of man in chute decending to earth
    02:18:05:12 - B&W footage: ETO 1944 British XXX Corps (30 corps) drives by burning wreckage on hells highway. 1st Allied Airborne Army, 101st airborne wave to British troops as they drive by road block. 101st have men on both sides of small bridge-clean transfer.
    02:18:35:26 - B&W footage: ETO 1944 Bodies of dead SS troops lay in the road of the Eindhoven Bridge as XXX Corps drive by, British army engineers dismantle booby traps and pull out German explosives that were set to destroy the bridge. 17 pounder AT guns guard the bridge incase of German counter attack.
    02:19:24:03 - B&W footage: ETO 1944 British M4s move across the bridge at Eindhoven Holland, XXX Corps, hells highway.
    02:19:38:18 - B&W footage: ETO 1944 United News, Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, US traffic boggs down and slides in the mud, snow and Ice, engineers throw sand on road to melt Ice, british tanks slide on ice and Firefly tank goes sideways on road almost crashing into a house.
    02:21:18:17 - B&W footage: ETO 1944/45 Gis trudge through the snow of the Bulge, M-4 moves up with close support of foot soldiers, good shots of gis in thick melton winter coats and overboots (shoe packs).
    02:21:26:25 - B&W footage: ETO 1944 Piper cub takes off from snowy field in the Ardennes
    02:21:43:10 - B&W footage: ETO 1944 M4s and M10 TDs battle it out in the bulge, explosiong and artillery, gis firing from fox holes in snow, lots of action, BAR gunner, bearded Gi with German Fallschirmjager prisoners with hands in the air march out of a thicket.
    02:22:29:25 - B&W footage: ETO 1944 German pow collection point in the Bulge-Gis march them to containment area.
    02:22:52:18 - B&W footage: ETO 1943 Monty, Admiral Ramsey play invasion of Sicily
    02:23:12:29 - B&W footage: ETO 1944 Ike and Air Marshall tedder plan for D-day. funeral for British admrial ramsey, 21 gun salute with Ike in attendance of service.
    02:24:04:10 - B&W footage: ETO Russian artillery fire at night, celebration, Warsaw in a smouldering ruins 1945.
    02:24:30:08 - B&W footage: Europe 1939, Hitler with general in the field, German Heer/Army troops lay upon a dike looking over the edge at the ready, buildings in flames, Polish generals surrender to Germans, long lines of olish troops marched into captivity.
    02:25:20:02 - B&W footage: Red Army advances with KV-1 tanks, Katusha rockets fore at night, burning panther tanks, Russian troops advancing. 1943 to 1944.
    02:26:19:10 - B&W footage: 1944 Russian field marshalls, stalin gloating, warsaw in ruins.
    02:26:34:07 - B&W footage: ETO 1944 A26 bombers rev up to attack Germany from snowy run ways, flak pufs in the sky, A26 is blown form the sky-it's wing show right off and goes down in flames. B-17s drop bombs on Germany, city below puffs and smokes. B-17s in formation, waist gunner fires 50.
    02:28:25:13 - B&W footage: ETO B-17s under attack, gunners fire at Germans as they fly by, waist gunners pump rounds into boggies and shoot down a few, B-17 on fire , crew bails out. FW190 in flames, pilot jumps out-you see his parachute as his plane head for earth.
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    02:30:12:16 - B&W footage: China 1940s, dams, farmers with water buffalo tend to crops.
    02:31:49:18 - B&W footage: Indian army on parade, military elephants 1940s
    02:31:57:20 - B&W footage: Charles De Gaulle speaks (in French) to indoneasians.
    02:32:47:12 - B&W footage: De Gaulle kisses an officer, shakes his hand and salutes, some formal awards presentation 1945 to 1950?
    02:33:22:23 - B&W footage: French troops 1945+, refugees fill the roadway with red cross workers leading the way, good footage of french families, farmers and country folk of France-down to earth-drinking calvados.
    02:34:19:00 - B&W footage: ETO US 105mm opens up, rounds are loaded and fired from a dug in position with camo nets covering the top
    02:34:46:01 - B&W footage: ETO 1944/45 Brtiish armor and 155mms fire in succession, Churchill Crocodile tanks move across muddy field, Tommys moving up in what looks like Holland, crab tanks, flails spin and churn up the earht looking for mines, Borfors guns fire from dug in positions on edge of forest pumping shells into German targets, tons of expended shells lay about.
    02:35:58:22 - B&W footage: ETO 1945, end of the war 1945 British armor and troops in combat, long lines of tommys with large E-tools with heavy tanks in support, ETO. Reichswald forest Holland/Germany/
    02:36:11:11 - B&W footage: ETO 1945 P-38 pilots are drug in a sled to their planes, snow covers the runway, they smile and fling snow at the camera, once in the air they tear into German ground targets. P-47 makes crash landing and splatters all over the runway sliding across the snow and ice as it goes finally crashing into another P-47 knocking it off it's landing gear 1945.
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    02:37:10:10 - B&W footage: ETO 1944 gis ride in captured german artillery tractor into battle through snowy forest, what looks like paratroopers ride standing up in a US truck, Panther tank smokes from a ditch at side of road, dragons teeth, gis breech the siegfried line during winter.
    02:37:43:04 - B7W footage: ETO 1944 great battle of the bulge footage, M4s fire on buildings, Willie petes explode among the buildings sending up sparking white flashes, gis go house to house in war town village which is now a big rubble heap, gis help woudned German until he falls down dead, gis roust Germans from cellars at gun point.
    02:38:51:21 - B&W footage: ETO 1945 gis fighting for bridges, bridge lays in river after the Germans have blown it, FO looks through split trench perescope through building window overlooking the river, gis fire 81mm mortars from train track position dropping bombs into tube one after the other.
    02:39:25:24 - B&W footage: ETO 1945 105mm fires smoke to mask gis advancing, smoke drops just at the base of a blown bridge 1945 the entire part of town lays in ruins it is quite industrial-train staion and factories.
    02:39:34:28 - B&W footage: Greece 1945 United News Churchill at Athens Greece, British Paras of the 2nd Independent parachute Brigade act as a police force to quell civil uprisings, Arch Bishop Domisquenus, paras stand amid city with political slogans painted on it's walls. Anthony Eden with US and French officials await Churchill. British troops find explosives in sewers.
    02:41:40:13 - B&W footage: ETO 1944, Bulge, piper cub sit still on misty runway, gis march into the fray along muddy roads, SS Fos spot and direct fire for self propelled artillery, SS take break under ruined US M8 armored car, SS troops march along muddy road filled of shot up US jeeps and trucks. Footage says tank is a Royal Tiger tank-this is crap-it is a MKIV self propelled assault gun (big difference!). SS troops walk among muddy field the first day of the Bulge Decmeber 16th 1944.
    02:43:02:03 - B&W footage: ETO 1944, Bulge, Hunting Tiger tanks with Fallshirmjagers ontop move along forest road where J Piper and his SS officers confer at the cross roads as SS traffic of the 1st SS Panzer Div passes by on it's way to the front, Bulge December 16th 1944.
    02:43:02:04 - B&W footage ETO, 1944, Bulge, SS NCO motions his men forward, SS troops crawl through fence and move past burning US jeeps and halftracks. SS troops pass out captured Gi ciggarettes, wagons and refugees. Mps check for enemy infiltration during the battle-MPs check both civilians and Gis for their papers and orders-making sure no German spys or troops sneak past dressed at gis or civilians.
    02:44:43:15 - B&W footage: ETO, 1944, Bulge, US army engineers blow trees along road to make road blocks, mines are lain for the advancing Germans. M-4s move through woods, Bazooka man stands by road-waiting, M-4 covered in straw by side of road, AT gun and crew at the ready for German armor.
    02:45:31:18 - B&W footage: ETO, 1944, Bulge, Mps direct traffic as M-4s and M-5s and ambulances pass by, roads are backed up with GI traffic, batterys of 105mms fire, Panther tank in flames, more destroyed german tanks MKIVs and panthers are now smouldering hulks.
    02:47:02:06 - B&W footage: ETO, 1944, Bulge, GI FO looks through field glasses and calls in on field phone, CU on FO calling in fire as M-7 priests and self propelled artillery fire on German position.
    02:47:26:10 - B&W footage: ETO, 1944, Bulge, Gis fire 60mm mortar, good footage of group of 60mm mortars firing, Gi fires M-1 trrough window, Gis take young German prisoner he looks very scared as hey begs them to not shoot him, more comes down road with their hands up, 1919A4 gunner whips weapon out front door with full belt drapping over his forearm.
    02:48:11:09 - B&W footage: ETO 1944, Bulge, Medics care for wounded germans, Bulge, skys clear as air corps drop supplies to relieve Bastone, P-47s fly overhead and attack German ground targets, plane crashes into the ground, dog fights, air to ground.
    02:49:59:13 - B&W footage: Burma 1944, United News: Burma rain soaked roads and muddy hills, Burmeese work on roads with US army engineers to clear the mud slides, horse drawn wagons and trucks, allied troops try to get supplies through.
    02:51:54:13 - B&W footage: ETO, 1944, Gis introduce magnet to pick up nails in roads to prevent flat tires, jeep drives along train tracks-gis show device for truning jeep around on a train track-ingenious. These are gi field made gadgets, de-icing the wings of a plane via a heated hose.
    02:53:54:21 - B&W footage: ETO, 1945 French factory is rebuilt after being bombed into ruins, workers work in plant, making steel, truck parts, drill presses and laythes.Gis push into Germany 7th Army Strausburg, gis rac across foot bridge under fire, tracers fly, gis do house to house, gis knock down walls and clear out civilians from cellars, gis picks up puppy from ruins, medics tend to wounded Germans.
    02:57:49:16 - B&W footage, ETO, 1944, Bulge, Tommys move through long trench and mans Bren gun, Tommy gets water from hole in ice to wash up and shave and make tea. Gis and British troops shake hands, Monty wears parachute regiment beret with para badge on it 1945. British and Canadian troops move along road in winter.
    02:59:08:23 - B&W footage, ETO, 1944, Bulge, Gis dig in in heavy blizzard, mail sacks in truck, dozers clear roads, gi walks by and spits on body of German in road, Medics dig out forzen Gi bodies from the Malmedy massacre, Geromont, gis wear bed sheets for camo, bodies are dug out of the snow, German prisoners stand and look very worried. Ruined city and German tanks lay dormant from the battle.
    03:01:33:17 - end of tape
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