My father was there in the 30th. We must remember that all this happened just before the Battle of the Bulge broke out just to the south in early December. The 30th had been pulled back to Stavelot Belgium for some rest after weeks in combat and immediately found themselves on the verge of the Ardennes Offensive and some of the coldest weather on record. God rest these men!
i wonder how amazed and proud these filmmakers would have been to see me 70 years in the future watching their film while walking outside on my mobile telephone that fits in my pocket...
This film was put together by the US DOD. The film was photographed by soldier cameramen of the US Army Signal Corps. I think they probably expected people would see them after they were declassified..
That engineer who lost a foot was one hard SOB. Most people would have been screaming like hell. I know I would. Saw a number of Marines wounded by booby traps and it is horrific.
Battle hardened men. Magnificent bastards. Damn that engineers foot blown to pieces. Germany was such a clean,modern country,beautiful architecture. Glad they rebuilt the classics.
It still is a beautiful country and Deggendorf with all its surrounding villages are modern but rebuilt in the old style, I lived there for 45 years before my retirement.
This was north of the battle of the bulge. This timeline is in November in which there was crossover into Germany by British & US troops, before the Germans attacked in the south, through Malmady (where captured US troops were massacred by SS tank commander) & St Vith.
The young men on both sides who died, never saw a microwave oven, never saw a jet airliner, never saw a television, never saw a push button phone or a transistor radio. Fast food chains were unknown. They all grew up in the depression. Most never owned a car. Many never had shoes until the army.
James Dale Thank you for historical insights describing the Greatest Generation young men who came out of the 1930s Depression only to be drafted into the WW 2 call up. Not only did they not get to see the inventions we take for granted but most of them only knew poverty and tough times. We owe them a lot, many lost their lives and paid the ultimately sacrifice for our freedom.
"wow" back atcha,, that was a very negative thing to do. the generation refered too deserves all the thoughts and remembrances that can be given . please do not take that away. even 7th grade paper boys are intitled too giving theirs. you might want too look at every body who comments as bein multi cultured and of varyin age groups and intellect. not all of us can feel so "unimpressed" as you have stated.
Andreas Habegger a friend of mine who was born in Germany in 1940 invited me to accompany him to go back and visit two years ago. We were visiting relatives of his in the village of Setterich. I met a man there who told me of the battle that raged there and that his father fought in the war. I told him that my father also had fought in the war and had landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy. He never talked about the war or what he experienced. All I knew was that he was in the 29th infantry division. The man I was talking to produced a book describing the area around Aachen from late 1944 to early 1945. When he showed me that my father’s division fought there and told me that I was walking the same ground that my father fought on as a young man, I was overcome with a feeling of emotion that is hard to describe. I had traveled over 6,000 miles to unwittingly walk the same ground.
@@maxmarsh3468 My grandfather also was in the 29th infantry division (Hawk Division). But on the other side. That division was part of the Heeresgruppe Mitte at the eastern front. He was there from the beginning to the end of the war. He was part of the 6th Army and was wounded in Stalingrad. He always said that this saved his life. After the war he was 7 years a POW in Russia.
Just to update this comment, why isn’t it posted in 4K? Surprisingly if the original films are available still HD conversions could be made. Most film was good enough that the resolution could be thought of as HD.
Could you please show a tape on “Tec 5 CoA 325 “ Engineer cmbt BN WW2 1944-1945 thank You so much for sharing these Videos a lot of good History for my mother n father we’re married in Amsterdam “ my mother was a Dutch girl from Amsterdam Holland and My Daddy was in WW2 💁♀️💜🙏
if you been told already the jeeps had a steel bar at the front just above the screen so it save the drivers head from getting sliced off. german ss would set trap wire across the lanes or streets were they new the would be drive'in so many lost theres lives with this dirty trap
Little did these Yanks know that Aachen would be retaken by the Germans a few weeks later. It would be a long and bitter fight until Christmas and January 1945.
@15:14. That poor man both of them I bet the 1st guy lost both legs. The German soldiers had no respect or concern for their own citizens. Sad 😞👎🪖. ❤️🙏✌️🇺🇸
Nobody was safe then, over there across the Ocean, in battle to preserve World Freedom from a tyranny that is completely beyond our current day comprehension. It is impossible for us to grasp the entire World at war.
Not long after they had just cleared it for real. With certainty, after men died after stepping on the mines while on the move. The simulation was done for the benefit of the reel man, his safety. Many of these reel men did not live through the war.
Luis Varandas The much bigger City of Gelsenkirchen is located north of the Ruhr - www.openstreetmap.org/relation/62522#map=12/51.5565/7.0659. GEILENKIRCHEN is located west of the Rur: www.openstreetmap.org/relation/157489#map=13/50.9736/6.1261. The small Rur river ( Dutch and French: Roer) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rur#/media/File:Indeverlauf.png is often confused with the much better known Ruhr with "H": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr_(river)#/media/File:Verlaufskarte_Ruhr2.png
@@nimitz1739 that's what a military exists for. As a marine vet myself , I don't want war,what sane person does,but if you do have to go to war,then win and that means killing the foe....period! it was my profession for 12 years active and I have no shame in saying that.... SEMPER FI
In order to create trenches limit the wet of its mud. An easier to dug is to dig corrosion from water mud will weaken feet from its disastrous flesh eating disaster:. Knowing is by knowing sometimes you oppose are the dumb mass of idiots..😂 Limit to become moist not diluted is the dry of its ducking will be a safer place to chill..❤🤪🤔👑🦁🦋⚖️♾️
