- Title: VM-1119A
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:02:40 - "THE SEVENTH ARMY STORY" A REVIEW OF THE SEVENTH ARMY IN WWII & A REPORT ON ITS COMBAT READINESS IN EUROPE TODAY. 00:02:45 - LS- CONVOY OF WARSHIPS AND TROOPSHIPS ON THE WAY TO THE INVASION OF SICILY BY THE 7TH ARMY. GALE FORCE WINDS BATTER THE SHIPS. 00:03:16 - MONTAGE- WARSHIPS AND PLANES BOMBARD SICILY. 00:04:10 - LS- GERMAN PLANES DROP BOMBS ON THE AMERICANS ON THE BEACHES. A WARSHIP TAKES A HIT. 00:04:38 - LS- COMMANDER OF THE 7TH ARMY, GENERAL PATTON IS HELPED OFF A LANDING CRAFT AND WADES INTO SHORE WITH HIS MEN. 00:04:50 - MONTAGE- LONG COLUMNS OF ITALIAN PRISONERS. MONTAGE- TROOPS MARCH THROUGH TOWNS WITH THEIR HEAVY ARTILLERY AND ARE CHEERED ON BY THE PEOPLE 00:06:44 - MS- GI ENGINEERS LAY HEAVY PLANKS ON A MOUNTAIN ROAD DESTROYED BY THE RETREATING GERMANS. 00:06:50 - LS- CITY OF MESSINA, THE LAST CITY TAKEN BY THE 7TH IN THE BATTLE OF SICILY. 00:08:24 - CU- A GI PARATROOPER LIGHTS UP A CIGARETTE AS HE WAITS TO DROP OVER NORMANDY ON D-DAY. 00:08:38 - MONTAGE- THE SKY IS FILLED WITH PARATROOPS. 00:09:00 - GENERAL ALEXANDER M. PATCH, WHO REPLACED PATTON AS COMMANDER OF THE 7TH ARMY, STANDS ON DECK OF WARSHIP WAITING FOR THE LANDING TO COMMENCE. 00:09:19 - MONTAGE- BOMBARDMENT BY WARSHIPS, GIS CLIMBING INTO LANDING CRAFT AND GIS HITTING THE BEACHES ON D-DAY. 00:10:33 - MONTAGE- FRENCH CROWDS CHEERING ALLIED FORCES AS THEY RIDE INTO THEIR CITIES. 00:10:42 - MS- A DISHEVELED WOMAN COLLABORATOR IS TAKEN PRISONER BY FRENCH RESISTANCE FIGHTERS. SHE GESTURES TO THEM OF HER INNOCENCE. 00:11:00 - MONTAGE- FRENCH TROOPS FIGHT IN STREETS OF THE IMPORTANT PORTS OF MARSEILLES AND TOULON. 00:11:18 - MONTAGE- THE SEVERELY DAMAGED PORTS WITH CRUMBLED SHIPS AND PIERS LEFT BY THE RETREATING NAZIS. 00:11:50 - MONTAGE- BATTLE SCENES OF FIGHTING GERMAN TROOPS. BY GERMAN CAMERMEN. 00:12:44 - MONTAGE-CROWDS OF HAPPY FRENCH PEOPLE GREET THE 7TH ARMY AS IT ENTERS THE CITY OF LYONS. DANCING AND SINGING IN THE STREETS 00:14:00 - MONTAGE- 7TH ARMY TROOPS FIGHT IN STREETS OF STRASSBURG AND HAGGANO BATTLING FOR EVERY FOOT. 00:16:00 - LS- 2 GIS CAUTIOUSLY MOVE HOUSE TO HOUSE WHEN A CHICKEN COMES RUNNING OUT. 00:16:15 - A GI WRITES "BITCHE EXPRESS" ON A SHELL BEFORE PLACING IT IN A CANNON TO BOMBARD THE TOWN OF BITCHE ON THE OLD MAGINOT LINE. 00:16:40 - MS- GIS COME OUT OF THEIR BUNKER TO GET PACKAGES FROM HOME FROM A GI MAILMAN AT THE FRONT. 00:16:50 - MS- GENERAL PATCH AT THE FRONT LINES, SPEAKS TO AN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER (G-2). 00:17:09 - MS- NARRATOR TELLS STORY OF IMPORTANT FACTS RECEIVED BY GENERAL PATCH BY ARMY INTELLIGENCE RESULTING IN A ROUTE OF GERMAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE WHICH CAME, AS EXPECTED, ON NEW YEARS EVE. 00:19:00 - MONTAGE- GIS KNEELING AND FIRING IN THE SNOW COVERED BATTLEFIELD. 00:19:50 - MONTAGE-7TH ARMY ATTACK THE 'COLMAR POCKET', A LARGE CONCENTRATION OF GERMAN TROOPS WITHIN FRANCE. LS- TANKS ENTER COLMAR AND BITCHE. 00:21:22 - MS- GIS PASS A STUNNED OLD WOMAN STANDING IN THE ROAD OF A BATTERED TOWN. 00:21:55 - CU- A LITTLE GIRL DRINKS FROM A CANTEEN OF A GI SITTING ON A DOORSTEP AS ANOTHER GI SCANS THE GROUND WITH A MINE DETECTOR. 00:22:00 - MS- A GI HOLDS A LITTLE GIRL FONDLY IN HIS ARMS. 00:22:09 - LS- GIS DROP A NAZI FLAG OUT OF A WINDOW OF A SMALL TOWN, GIS STOMP ON IT. 00:22:38 - MONTAGE- 7TH ARMY GIS WALK THROUGH THE CONCRETE TANK OBSTRUCTIONS OF THE SEIGFREID LINE. 00:23:18 - MS- A LITTLE BABY IN A WHITE CARRIAGE AMID THE RUBBLE AND SMOKE OF BUILDINGS. 00:24:03 - MS- NAZI CREW OF TANK RAISE THEIR HANDS IN SURRENDER AS THEY GIVE UP THEIR TANK 00:24:16 - AERIAL- HUGE COLUMNS OF PRISONERS AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE ALONG THE AUTOBAHN. 00:24:43 - CU- FACES OF PRISONERS INCLUDE BEWILDERED OLD MEN 00:25:38 - CU- FACE OF YOUNG TEEN WHO DEFENDED A SMALL TOWN WITH HIS 16 TO 18 YEAR OLD COMRADES. 00:25:51 - LS- PAN OF THE REMAINS OF THE SHRINE CITY OF NUREMBERG. 00:26:14 - MS- A GI AGGRESSIVELY KICKS OPEN A DOOR IN A TOWN. HE AND OTHER ARMED GIS CAUTIOUSLY WALK IN. 00:26:33 - MS- HERMANN GORING IS ESCORTED INTO A BUILDING BY ARMED GIS. 00:26:36 - MS- GORING REMOVES HIS REVOLVER FROM HIS HOLSTER. CU A GI EXAMINES IT. 00:26:50 - LS- A HUGE NAZI EMBLEM AT THE TOP OF NUREMBERG STADIUM IS BLOWN OFF WITH TNT. 00:27:02 - MS- CROWD OF SLAVE LABORERS GIVE UP A BIG CHEER FROM BEHIND THEIR BARBED WIRE FENCE. 00:27:50 - LS- U.S. FLAG AT HALF MAST FOR THOSE OF THE 7TH ARMY WHO FELL. MONTAGE- GIS WITH THEIR HEADS BOWED FOR A MOMENT OF SILENCE. 00:29:00 - MONTAGE- 7TH ARMY TRAINS IN GERMANY FOR COMBAT READINESS AS A PART OF THE NATO FORCE.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1119A