Summary

TRUE GLORY (Parts 1, 2, and 3)

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Title: TRUE GLORY (Parts 1, 2, and 3)
File Number: VTM-25DW Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 01/01/1946
Description: B W 1940s General Ike Eisenhower Exhibits the military aspects of the Allied armed forces during WWII Equipment, reactions of individual fighting men and support workers are stressed Part I surveys invasion of Europe and establishment of beachheads Part I also contains EXCELLENT D-DAY INVASION, June 6, 1944, and the events surrounding it: artificial harbor (Mulberry), GIs in France, etc Part II depicts the French Maquis, the resistance of Caen, the reception of Rheims, the slow grind toward Falaise Stresses use of air cover and artillery Part III covers action in The Netherlands, the taking of Arnhem, the assault on the Siegfried Line, the Battle of the Bulge, the taking of Bastogne, Cologne, Remagen Bridge, Berlin and the joining of History, Universal 00:07:28:28 - 00:08:40:21 B W 1946 Sailors in bunks, reading, writing letters to home, sewing, playing cards, music, etc 00:18:04:18 B W 1946 -- good MS sailors flashing SIGNAL LIGHT in code from Navy ship 00:02:52:00 B W 1946 ms ws German footage Hitler orating Goebbels troops marching coastal defenses 00:04:10:00 B W 1946 ms Map French coast - invasion area Cherbourg to Caen 00:04:16:00 B W 1946 ws Series of shots of American defense plants at work 00:04:28:00 B W 1946 ws Air raid watcher in London 00:05:02:00 B W 1946 ws Stormy North Atlantic as convoys sail periscope spotted depth charges fired ship sinking oil covered survivors 00:05:47:00 B W 1946 ws ms Wall sized war map - girl puts markers down 00:06:15:00 B W 1946 ws Mass of GIs in life vests on ships deck 4 high bunk beds writing letter sewing small band on deck playing cards 00:06:45:00 B W 1946 ms Sailors and Wac? feeding pigeons 00:06:51:00 B W 1946 ws ms London street scenes various allied troops and civilians service clubs 00:07:56:00 B W 1946 ws GIs in training crawling thru field under machine gun fire scaling cliff beach landing 00:09:21:00 B W 1946 ws Hitler and generals looking at maps 00:09:45:00 B W 1946 ws ms Allied generals and admirals in meeting 00:10:07:00 B W 1946 ws Night bombing huge fires on ground day bombing 00:10:34:00 B W 1946 ws Secret agent parachuting into France 00:10:35:00 B W 1946 ws One man submarine o874 ws Torpedo boat running at high speed 00:10:38:00 B W 1946 ws Sailor signaling with flags 00:10:52:00 B W 1946 ws Parachuting supplies to Maquis 00:11:10:00 B W 1946 ws Landing ships practicing in England 00:11:14:00 B W 1946 ws Plane machine gunning German ship 00:11:18:00 B W 1946 ws Series of shots of supplies being stockpiled in England underwater pipeline for moving fuel to France GIs getting shots listening to German radio 00:11:42:00 B W 1946 ms Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Teheran meeting 00:11:54:00 B W 1946 ms ws Series of shots of Eisenhower and his invasion team including Montgomery and Bradley 00:12:28:00 B W 1946 ws Series of shots of bomb runs and fighter attacks 00:13:18:00 B W 1946 ws Germans prepare French Channel coast for the invasion Goering inspects troops 00:13:55:00 B W 1946 ws Allied troops and equipment gathering at ports in England 00:15:14:00 B W 1946 ws Troops on ships waiting lying on tank gun getting food playing cards reading (A Tree Grows In Brooklyn) barrage balloons overhead receiving invasion briefings 00:16:30:00 B W 1946 ws King George receiving and returning salute on American ship 00:16:32:00 B W 1946 ms Using light signaling devices on the ships 00:16:36:00 B W 1946 ws ms Raising and washing the anchor 00:16:46:00 B W 1946 ws Ships enroute to Invasion 00:17:11:00 B W 1946 ws ms Eisenhower inspects parachute troops(The Screaming Eagles?) they jump from airplanes 00:18:34:00 B W 1946 ms ws Glider troops enroute 00:19:00:00 B W 1946 ws Soldier and sailor aboard ship signaling with flags personnel on ships prepare for landing battleship battery fires salvos bombers and fighter planes pass over ships beaches bombed and shelled rocket barge fires salvos troops enroute to beaches 00:21:22:00 B W 1946 ws Troops land 00:21:48:00 B W 1946 ws ms London - double-decker buses tower clock early empty streets correspondents receive news of invasion - rush from room people in street reading the news Times Square news light sign carries news 00:22:32:00 B W 1946 ws Omaha Beach - dead and wounded 00:23:32:00 B W 1946 ms German soldier firing rifle German reinforcements move up Hitler and generals working with maps 00:24:03:00 B W 1946 ws British troops landing - fighting thru village vehicle flame thrower shoots out tongue of flame fighting in the fields men using field phones soldier shaving 00:25:03:00 B W 1946 ws General Montgomery comes ashore 00:25:16:00 B W 1946 ws Aircraftusing machine guns, rockets and bombs on ground targets 00:26:02:00 B W 1946 ws Hugh amounts of machines and equipment arrive on beaches 00:26:27:00 B W 1946 ws British troops using mortars digging foxholes cleaning equipment wounded being jeeped out 00:27:32:00 B W 1946 ws GI carrying wounded man on shoulders runs for cover medics tending wounded in street inside hospital tent - nurse and doctors at work - operating grave marker 00:28:54:00 B W 1946 ws Equipment arriving in prefabricated harbor (British?) called Mulberry scenes of storm on V + 13 - destroyed all landing areas except Mulberry 00:30:47:00 B W 1946 ws GIs walk thru herd of cows farm women pass out apples and wine 00:30:58:00 B W 1946 ws Fighting in Cherbourg - Germans surrender harbor destroyed Americans clean up destruction 00:31:52:00 B W 1946 ms ws French Maquis get their weapons fighting blowing bridges 00:32:22:00 B W 1946 ws Village of Oradour sur Glane - Germans slaughtered 100 people and destroyed village in retaliation for ambushing German troops bodies in the street 00:33:09:00 B W 1946 ms German field officers planning German troops setting up defenses at Caen? British take the town - street fighting 00:35:20:00 B W 1946 ws Woman carrying bag and umbrella walks thru ruins boy picks up apple? in street wipes it on jacket 00:35:26:00 B W 1946 ws ms British troops in field battle south of Caen 00:36:24:00 B W 1946 ms Rommel? in the field German troops fighting 00:36:43:00 B W 1946 ws GIs fire huge field pieces 00:36:56:00 B W 1946 ms General Bradley in the field fighting for town of St Lo civilian refugees 00:38:06:00 B W 1946 ws Patton's 3rd Army tanks on the move Patton with binoculars French people cheering arrival Rheims? - bells ringing crowds cheering people dancing 00:39:52:00 B W 1946 ws ms Battle for Mortain heavy German resistance RAF Typhoon airplanes continuously rocket German forces - rearming airplanes on the field 00:42:06:00 B W 1946 ws ms Preparatory and battle scenes air and land at Falaise area German prisoners - teenagers - veterans - SS etc 00:46:47:00 B W 1946 ws 10 tons of new maps dropped by parachute 00:47:47:00 B W 1946 ws Paris - empty Champs Elysee Germans leave by horse drawn wagons residents fighting French troops arrive De Gaulle 00:49:35:00 B W 1946 ws Flying bombs 00:50:20:00 B W 1946 ws British troops enter Brussels 00:50:47:00 B W 1946 ws ms GIs walk over barbed wire fence into Germany 00:51:04:00 B W 1946 ws GI in top hat and carrying cane and open umbrella walks down the street 00:51:45:00 B W 1946 ws GI linemen working atop telephone pole 00:52:23:00 B W 1946 ws EXT Metz 3rd army runs out of gas 00:53:16:00 B W 1946 ws Battle for a sea port - Cherbourg - Brest - Calais - Le Havre- Boulogne - Dunkirk 00:54:20:00 B W 1946 ws Dragon's Teeth at Siegfried Line - battle for the line 00:55:13:00 B W 1946 ws Battle for Arnhem, Nijmegen and Eindhoven 00:58:30:00 B W 1946 ws Battle of the Scheldt? 01:00:43:00 B W 1946 ms GIs get hot meal, shower, shave clean underwear and pants in 24 hour respite also movie Bathing Beauty 01:02:51:00 B W 1946 ws Battle of the Ardennes (The Bulge) 01:07:04:00 B W 1946 ms Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Casablanca? 01:07:28:00 B W 1946 ms Montgomery and Eisenhower consult in field 01:08:31:00 B W 1946 ms ws Battle of Reichold? 01:09:28:00 B W 1946 ws Battle of Munchen-Gladvak? and Cologne 01:09:52:00 B W 1946 ws Assault boats being trucked to the Rhine River 01:10:57:00 B W 1946 ws GIs cross Rhine on Remagen Bridge 01:11:52:00 B W 1946 ws Crossing Rhine on assault vehicles 01:13:48:00 B W 1946 ws American soldier prisoner of war camp freed - they hold copy of Stars and Stripes Newspaper with headline FDR DEAD 01:14:46:00 B W 1946 ws ms Freeing concentration camp 01:16:55:00 B W 1946 ws Berlin - The Brandenburg Gate 01:17:16:00 B W 1946 ws Russian troops waving - GIs waving at each other across river Elbe? GI cross on rubber raft - they all embrace 01:19:08:00 B W 1946 ws The surrender 01:19:16:00 B W 1946 ws Night firing 01:19:51:00 B W 1946 ws The Armistice? 01:20:18:00 B W 1946 ws Military cemetery 01:20:30:00 B W 1946 ms German Generals surrendering Goering
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