SIEG IM WESTEN (Reel 6 of 12)

SIEG IM WESTEN (Reel 6 of 12) - National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 44317, LI 242-MID-6063 - DVD Copied by Nick Stoller. Series: Motion Picture Films From G-2 Army Military Intelligence Division, compiled 1918 - ca. 1947. German. Reel 6: MS, two heavy German tanks ferried across River on ponton ferry. MS, German heavy tank fords shallow river. CU, General Kluge greets officer. German soldiers eat and rest. MCU, armored force park. CU, German Staff Officers in front of their maps, ext shots. CU, artillery fire direction plans for light, medium and heavy fire as preparation for attack. Animation shows plan of attack on fortified Hill No. 505 near Sedan. SEQ, actual "covering" of Hill No. 505 by all calibers of artillery. CU, heavy artillery fire. SEQ, advance after cessation of artillery preparation by engineer shock troops; Spanish riders and barbed wire in foreground. MCU, several German assault guns (l05mm Howitzers, self-propelled artillery) of a Panzer division moves in for attack. Int, French defenders of Hill No. 505 firetheir guns. Excellent HS, German tanks attack; tracer ammunition fires, burning buildings and wrecks. German soldiers frisk French prisoners, long pan to French prisoner camp. SEQ, General Giraud leaves a Junkers Transport plane salutes the German Officers and surrenders. Animation, Rommel's breakthrough to Abbeville. SEQ, Rommel's Armored Force and fast troops followed by Cavalry and Infantry on their way to the channel coast at Abbeville. SEQ, German field artillery in street fights in Abbeville. CU, Colonel General Von Bock walks into lens, salutes. MCU, assembly of German tanks on high cliffs and pan to channel coast. Animation, Allied attempt to avoid the Dunkirk evacuation by counterattacking Arras. SEQ, British and French artillery in action. CU, French heavy tank pulls a disabled Bren gun carrier through a shell ditch in spectacular action. MCU, British light tanks in very fast advance. German heavy artillery action includes siege artillery. Allied tanks under fire.