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[WWII - 1944, France, Normandy: German Defense Against D-Day Invasion. 06Jun44] R2 of 2
Germans firing machine guns from cliff emplacements. Flamethrower & flames. CU stoic German soldier.German troops inspect deserted beached landing craft.
12:40:27 Camouflaged German tanks & troop carriers past, across fields. CUs. Explosion & German armored vehicles fire guns. Germans fire machine gun. Explosion. German soldiers run thru field. Tanks down country road past glider wing. Parachute in treetop. Wrecked glider / planes. Dead US pilot.
12:41:58 US & British prisoners marched along road w/ hands on head. German soldiers look at cloth map taken from POW. Wrecked gliders & planes in field, CU shots. Germans take jeep out of crashed US aircraft. 12:43:26 Canadian prisoners - CU insignia North Nova Scotia Highlanders, Canadian Parachute Battalion. Prisoners, some w/ injuries, questioned. Insignia: British Green Howards. Germans with captured personal effects - pay book. Pan down line of miserable looking prisoners.
12:44:06 German soldier looking at sky thru binoculars. Anti-aircraft guns fired. Bomber formation over Caen w/ many contrails. Explosion on ground - ack-ack. German looking thru strange binoculars / periscope. Allied planes shot down. Bombs falling on houses. Vapor trails in sky. US bomber on ground in flames.
12:45:52 Bomb damaged town w/ very tall monument still standing. Refugees, women & children carry belongings past destroyed buildings out of town. Bombed city center w/ German military trucks on street - refugees w/ belongings on cart. German Panzer tanks on road. German tanks across field; young infantry soldiers in wheat field fire mortars & artillery.
12:47:16 Germans w/ captured allied prisoners. Germans inspect wrecked US Sherman tanks & military equipment w/ heavy damage & shell holes in heavy steel.
12:48:29 SS officer & troops driving through field. Panzers & infantry thru field. Burning equipment w/ heavy smoke.
12:49:28 Captured US troops carry wounded soldier. Pan fields, CU German tank past camera. POV thur field; German troops towards town, GOOD.
12:50:06 German troops machine guns & enter town throwing grenades, firing machine gun. Large explosions. Rockets fired. Heavy flames.
12:50:37 The End.
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