" LEST WE FORGET " (PART 3) WWII DOCUMENTARY FILM BATTLE OF THE BULGE TO V-E DAY 76805c

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Lest We Forget is a 1947 Army Signal Corps documentary-style propaganda film that gives viewers an impression of the fighting during World War II. This last part covers the events from the Battle of the Bulge until the surrender of Germany in May 1945. It shows American soldiers managing the harsh winter of 1944 and several important turning points including the crossing of the Rur and Rhine rivers as well as the liberation of Jülich, Cologne, Koblenz, and Essen. The film also shows the everyday life of the soldiers, including brief moments of entertainment like a “Rhine Rodeo” that they organized.

0:10 M4 Sherman tanks and Jeeps driving through German villages and struggling with mud, 0:50 soldiers sledging through mud, 1:27 flooded areas after dams were intentionally burst, 1:45 urban combat footage, 2:23 German soldiers surrendering, 2:49 American troops fighting on a field, 3:28 American soldiers marching during the winter, 4:08 the 24th Infantry Division celebrating Thanksgiving in 1944, 4:52 soldiers looking for mines in the snow covered Ardennes forest, 5:40 soldiers celebrating Christmas in a German town, 6:09 Setting up defensive positions after the Ardennes breakthrough, 6:35 refugees fleeing, 7:09 aerial attacks as seen from the ground as well as urban combat footage, 8:53 people being executed by firing squad, 9:09 soldiers fighting in snowy terrain, 11:20 soldiers marching through a snowy town 12:36 Jeeps and soldiers moving through extreme mud 13:22 Douglas C-47s dropping supplies by air, 14:01 lines of German POWs followed by German graveyard, 14:33 soldiers watching B-17s during their bombing runs, 15:25 aerial footage of dogfights 16:26 soldiers talking to each other and waiting around, 17:28 artillery bombardment at night and during the day, 18:18 smoke being released over the battlefield, 18:45 soldiers crossing the Ruhr River, 19:46 engineers setting up a pontoon bridge, 20:25 the completely destroyed city of Jülich, 21:19 M4 Shermans driving through the plains near Cologne, 21:58 Soldiers and howitzers being moved before the liberation of Cologne, 23:26 street battles in Cologne, 24:50 Cologne after its liberation, including the Cathedral, 25:05 soldiers crossing the Rhine on the Remagen bridge, 25:32 medics supporting wounded soldiers, 26:03 soldiers crossing the Rhine by boat, 26:38 overview of and street scenes from a bombed out Koblenz, 27:12 soldiers walking through destroyed towns in Southern Germany, 27:43 soldiers and Germans entertaining themselves with a “Rhine Rodeo”, 28:37 soldiers march at dusk, 29:07 C-47s taking off with C-4 gliders in tow, 29:54 soldiers crossing the Rhine in boats, 30:27 US Navy troop landers crossing the Rhine, 31:36 paratroopers jumping out of Curtiss C-46s, 32:36 engineers moving soldiers over the Rhine en masse, 33:10 M4 Sherman tanks crossing the Rhine on pontoon bridges, 33:48 German soldiers rounded up into POW camps, 34:56 soldiers driving through completely destroyed cities and villages, 35:49 women crying near the rubble of their houses, 36:02 completely destroyed cities, 36:25 Essen in ruins 36:32 Messerschmitt Bf-109s destroyed in the countryside, 36:47 carnage of war, destroyed German equipment and dead soldiers 37:17 huge numbers of POWs 37:32 crowds of liberated American POWs cheering the arrival of American troops, 37:48 General Dwight D. Eisenhower inspecting masses of dead bodies at a concentration camp, 38:42 Soldiers helping the survivors, 39:17 refugees fleeing with their belongings, 40:06 American flag at half mast after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 40:27 the liberation of Magdeburg and Nuremberg, 41:07 Germans waving white handkerchiefs, 41:17 American and Soviet soldiers meeting and celebrating with each other, 42:40 the blowing up of the swastika symbol at Nuremberg 43:25 “The End”

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