D-Day to Germany: Cameraman Jack Lieb comments on original footage of 1944-45

it's the one place that intrigued me was my first trip to London and the house of parliament and Big Ben now these pictures you must remember are more than a quarter of a century old though the thing that amused and entertained our boys who were stationed all over England was Westminster Abbey and there were quite a few Americans who came there to see the sights and see Westminster Abbey and these are the scenes that I want to photograph on one Sunday afternoon another area that intrigued me was Marble Arch the Marble Arch on one Sunday afternoon was full of people you must remember that London was being bombed almost every night in this particular time and I was photographing these speakers that were addressing the crowds every speaker was speaking on a different subject but the police stood around and watched as long as there was no arguments in any strong arguments nobody was hurt and we the people in the audience were arguing back with the speakers but these were just typical shots of how we passed the time waiting for d-day most of the children who lived in England or a great many I should say was sent out of the city but a lot of them had to remain behind but in spite of a war they managed to find entertainment I was rather surprised to see these children drinking out of community drinking cups that were changed to the fountain and I'd like to make candid shots of these children so they didn't notice me but every once in a while they did but this youngster is taking a cold drink on a beautiful Sunday afternoon and we discovered that the st. Paul's Cathedral had been hit several times but not badly damaged and of course one of the other attractions was Buckingham Palace and the gates which were protected by British troops not in the bastion hats which they wore in peacetime but in full war uniform and this is the way they paraded up and down they weren't performing for the camera but they were actually doing their duty but you notice the barrage balloons in the background London had barrage balloons all over the area and it was said that if it wasn't for the barrage balloons with all the equipment that was being brought into the country that the islands would sink into the sea but the barrage balloons they said was holding it up you must remember too that food was pretty scarce in London at this time and it was being brought in whatever way they could and being unloaded but it isn't often you get a bright day like this in the spring in London and this was an opportunity to show what the soldiers were doing while they were waiting for the invasion this is Fleet Street discovered this Irish policeman guarding the street and we saw considerable damage in the area but soon we were down on the south coast of England where we met some of the other correspondents who were scheduled across the channel with us and you'll probably recognize some of the old-timers who covered the warith in that particular time I was given a shovel to defend myself and a proved to be a valuable instrument and here we see Larry Lazar CBS Larry desilva's covering the war for CBS and so was Burton Becker on the left Jack Thompson of the Chicago tre Tribune ernie pyle here and this is a close-up of Jack Thompson and this is O'Reilly Larry O'Reilly of Associated Press this is Burton Becca and we're saying our farewells because we were expected to meet again in Paris here on the Left we see Clark Lee of AI NS and bill stoneman who came from Chicago from The Daily News and several other the correspondents were being boarded up bought a military truck to be taken to the south coast and we went through small British towns and life was going on as usual the people were in the marketplace buying food and as though nothing was going on but I understood and 50-mile ride that's how we felt riding in an army vehicle we found Plymouth was pretty badly damaged a lot of the buildings were completely destroyed but this was found all over the area soon we were approaching the dock area and we found these American Jeeps ready to be boarded aboard landing craft and you notice the bars that are attached to their bumpers and they're designed to cut why's that the Germans had a habit of putting across the road that would sometimes cut off the head of the drivers we weren't allowed to wander around the area by ourselves each crossroad point was under god of both an American and a British soldier and if they wanted to see what you had in your bed road you had to show it to them but this is the care that was taken that the secret of the invasion be kept as long as it could these are the two men West Carroll of the OWI and Pete Pete Carroll of West Haynes rather who were with me and we went aboard and LCI number five Pete Carroll here came from Boston and he was a photographer for The Associated Press and we try to keep our mind off what was coming and we knew it was going to be a short time before we would be on board we had our first taste of k-rations which didn't taste bad a few were hungry and we also were able to see the beautiful countryside in that area and these are the sort of shots I wanted to bring home to show my family and friends Pete Carroll was using some of his film to make a few shots himself and soon we were down at the docks and there we found units of the hundred and first Airborne Division carrying everything they could carry by hand boarding landing craft that was so heavily laden they had to be pushed off the docks by trucks as you see in this manner and these men would being taken out to larger craft and bought it before the invasion and here we see several units carrying grenades bazookas they didn't have an opportunity to blow this aboard jeeps that were not fully available at this particular moment we were aboard a fleet of LCIS and here shown with the commander of the invasion group in the center and the captain on the right rather the captain of our ship lieutenant Patton was in command of the LCI number five and we found out that he participated in several invasions in the Mediterranean area and we felt rather confident that he knew what he was doing but we stayed aboard this ship for almost five days this is the commander of the squadron I remember lieutenant Patton's name well because we were willing for so long what Haynes was trying to get ready for the trip into Paris I think he was premature and these are units of the hundred and first Airborne Division aboard our landing craft amusing themselves and I don't have to tell you who this man is imitating he was a Notre Dame football player at one time and I was told later on that he was killed in the action of course every ship had a mascot and Nas was no different but the boys provided for their mascots welfare with the making of a life preserver just like the ones that they wore themselves and then one afternoon lieutenant Patton briefed the crew and told him that we would be sailing that afternoon and they let out a cheer because this is the job that are waiting for they wanted to get it done and go home and here we see the LCI number four with the commander moving out into the channel and this was a tremendous sight to see ships from one end of the horizon to the other ships of all kinds they tell me there was well over a thousand ships but even so we thought this was just another exercise as we continued on we felt that we'd be turned around go back and try again another day but when we continued on into the night we knew it was the real thing at one time we had a bit of a scare they said there was a submarine in the area and one of the de boats threw some bombs into the channel and they exploded but we never saw any attack at all here are some scenes actually taken close to the beach where the ships made a right-angle turn and headed for the area where we were to land that is a de boat in the distance and of course we were on the alert for any kind of attack even aeroplane attacks fortunately our Air Force did their job well and at no time that I know of a German attack except after we had landed two planes attempted to strafe the beach and I happened to be in the area now these are some scenes that I took with my camera that was reduced to 16 millimeter this particular scene of these men going to shore was taken by an automatic camera aboard a British landing craft and they were the first men to land the reason there was taken by an automatic camera was because they wanted to have a record of what happened should the landing fail at least they might have a record they were able to recover the film of what happened and how to avoid it if they had to try another attack but here are some scenes landing on the utah beach and this is the way we went to shore this is again is at the british beach but you notice the men didn't - ashore after being aboard a landing craft for five solid days they just walked slowly and cautiously fearful of bombs and mines that were sown in the area you notice they have their rifles wrapped in cellophane but this is the way we had to go ashore and I needn't tell you that a lot of the boys didn't make it here is one of the famous scenes taken from black-and-white film of two men being shot down right before your eyes here is Pete Carroll and Wes Haynes carrying our own equipment and the ship is grounded on the beach the section of the beach we were on was being attacked by enemy fire and in the previous shot you could see a bomb actually land not too far from where we were there it is again and the bulldozers were trying to clear roads to let our deep sand tanks move forward and even though it was June the area was quite cold as it usually is in that part of Normandy of course the men dug their foxholes a little deeper and we had the good fortune of finding a concrete wall which helped serve as protection but even now we're taking some of our wounded back to the beach so they can be transferred back to England but when the tide went out the ships could not come in close or those that went aground had a wait foot high tide to be refloated if they weren't hit we'll stayed on the beach the first night and lived in a foxhole and soon we showed some of the first prisoners taken in the area late the first day who were captured close to the beach and were sent back to England because there was no room to keep them there this is our first command post where general Collins on the left is talking to some of his officers and we were able to get some of the first hot food at this place and I didn't realize how hungry I was until I saw these pictures there's Larry laaser again and Bob Landry on the right Bob Landry was covering the war fort time in life and although it kept me very busy for eight solid days I used up all the film I had and decided to go back to France to get some more and probably to get a bath I hadn't had my clothes off during that entire time and my landing at England took place at a place near Bournemouth it almost looks like the cliffs of Dover that everyone is familiar with but it was a beautiful sight to see the coast of England and know that I could get some rest after all but didn't realize it at that time but the buzz bombs would start coming over and here we see some of them flying over the English coastline and these buzz bombs were a terror weapon they didn't know where they would land but the British were quick to set up machine guns and anti-aircraft fire to knock them out of the sky and they managed to shoot down quite a few they even sent planes up into the sky to knock them out of this air and of course sometimes they did get through and where they fell they caused considerable damage but you must have missed that pretty good shooting there's one actually coming down and it landed in the London area and wherever they landed they caused considerable damage my second crossing of the channel was made on an LST and this time with units of the 3rd Armored Division that was sorely needed because they were bringing over more tanks and vehicles to carry us in the direction of Sher Berg because we needed a port badly the LST was men by a British crew that's the captain in the British uniform but we were in a long convoy of many of them ah everyone loaded to the gills with equipment that was sorely needed but here you'll get an idea of what the beach looked like and these ships are actually waiting for the tide to recede so they could send their equipment ashore without going through deep water on d-day they had to go through the deep water and at this particular moment they're waiting for the ramps to be rebuilt after a severe storm so they could go ashore without damage now you can see the problems they had on d-day because when the landing craft hit the sandbars the men started wading ashore and found deeper water ahead and those that had their life preservers to low around their waist turned turtle and many were drowned but these are units of the Third Army heading in crossing the deep spot just ahead of them and headed toward shurberg itself this was a remarkable sight and the ship's well lined up as far as the eye could see bringing supplies ashore we needed shurberg badly because we thought we could use it as a port but we found that shurberg shown here was pretty badly destroyed by the Germans themselves they destroyed the docks which we thought we could use and it took them if I recall almost two months before we could bring a ship in they set up mines and destroyed the famous shurberg docks where the transatlantic liners used to land they not only destroyed the dots but also the inland bridges that crushed the rivers that ended the Cherbourg area the canals this is one of them was tried by the Germans soon the French people came back into the city and gave us a warm welcome and soon we found the prisoners and I think they took something like sixteen or eighteen thousand men out of the chevre area and they're still holding their personal belongings marching toward the beaches because they had to be transported to England and some eventually to the States to be held in prisoner of war camps and even at this time those that could talk to us or would talk to us said we'd be pushed back into the channel in less than a week of course at every year headquarters area we found that the Germans had a picture of hare Hitler and our boys are using it as a pin board but the Americans had a way of amusing themselves now here is the first official ceremony held in France when General Collins on the right percent of the tricolour fat flag made out of parachute cloth seen here to the mayor of shurberg who was holding the microphone and our boys of the seven Corps were given clean uniforms for the occasion and soon the people that came back to share Berg after the fighting stopped came to visit with us and talk to us here we see Ernie Pyle in the center again and talking to a colonel of the Signal Corps and this is Bert Brandt who we saw earlier shooting for an AP sessile cons and John McGlinchey and here is oh gosh twenty-five years has done a lot to my memory but the troops began to move in the opposite direction to attack the enemy on the saint-lo line and we were passing through the city of alone and of course it was completely destroyed I was there several times since the war and it's been free beautifully but the Germans tried to make a stand here and wherever they did try to make a stand we had to knock them out and in so doing destroyed the city a little later on I had an opportunity to see the construction that was built by slave labor and all along the beach especially in the Normandy area as well as other areas they built these triangles many of them had mines attached to them so that if a boat touched them they would explode and I was told after taking this walk that I should be very careful not to step where the ground is soft this is a church in bar floor that was a pretty little town that the Germans evacuated because the commander liked the city so much the little town so much that he did want to see it destroyed and just actually withdrew rather than let it be destroyed it was a little fishing village and I had the good fortune of coming back several times because the hotel was still intact and serving very excellent French food a little further down the coast we found these fortifications built by slave labor and even these metal fences just to keep us from landing in the area and these heavy fortifications that were many feet thick and these correspondents were looking it over in some areas the Germans saw to it that they were destroyed blowing them up so that we couldn't use them against them if they tried to take them back they even destroyed their own weapons but we noticed that the walls and fortifications were very thick and very strong the area was taken over by the Navy and there was an observation post right on the end this isn't it near a town called Granville and there is the lighthouse at the point that sort of separated Normandy from Brittany that's the observation post the Germans used and it's out of the command of our naval officers to use as an observation post soon we brought in some of our big armament and they were set up in a field and firing at German positions but even though the guns were firing the French people were bringing in the crops as though nothing was happening this surprised me and I couldn't help but wanted to make a picture of it of course these heavy guns caused terrific concussion and it was difficult to hold a handheld camera that long one of the first things that the Americans did was to build an airstrip in the same st. Mary Gleason area not far from the coast and they used a strip that was supported by metal wire to keep the planes from sinking into the ground and they were using it also as a place to take off from with 500-pound bombs under each wing but the strip was so rough that frequently the bombs would break loose and even though they were armed they had to be disarmed and taken off the runway these are p-47 that they were using here and there there's one carrying a bomb under each wing to attack the enemy deep in behind the lines you notice these two planes taking off at once raising considerable dust but managing to get off a very short runway here you notice a plane you notice the buckle under the wheels this sometimes caused the mesh wire to break and come up and hit the planes propeller of course you get to crash before it left the ground and here's an unfortunate accidents two of our planes here we see some pictures made by automatic cameras that were installed in the fighter planes because when a pilot reported that he had shot down an enemy plane he wasn't given credit unless his pitches proved that the plane was shot down and these automatic cameras would operate in conjunction with his machine guns and if you look closely you'll see the pilot jump out of the plane in the in the shot but to notice too that a lot of these planes are still carrying the extra fuel tanks that they were carrying underneath the wing and whenever the bullets hit that tank the plane would explode as you will see here but when you saw shots like this you know that the pilot never got back and one of the highlights of our trip across France was Mont saint-michel the Mont saint-michel was on a river that separated Normandy from Brittany and here we met some of the other correspondents this is Bob capper of Time magazine and I know there's a member in the audience who knew Bob CAPA and Bob CAPA was eventually killed he was covering the war in Indochina when the French was fighting but at Mont saint-michel we found the pool odd hotel run by Madame palod and the reason we like the place is she searched some delicious omelettes for which she was famous that's Madame palod and a famous hotel in the background and a lot of the correspondents gathered here to fight the war from this point because we were closer to the front line if you could call it such then we were at our main bases and there we see the river that separates Normandy from Brittany this is a beautiful little island and the building at the top is a monastery that was still intact it was destroy it at all and here are some of our GIS looking over the sights of the monastery being shown around by a woman guide soon we met some of the other correspondents we knew and here we see Charles Collingwood the gentleman on the right with Helen Kirkpatrick of the Chicago Daily News and Joe Liebling of New Yorker magazine the ball had a chap and Wharton Becker on the extreme left Liebling wrote many stories for New York Magazine and he died not many years ago this is Charles Collingwood and Helen Kirkpatrick of the Chicago Daily News this is Ernie a rather Ernest Hemingway Hemingway was covering for Kylie's magazine and we met him at mon san michele here he is seen talking with Bill Walton who incidentally became a fast friend of President Kennedy and these were just moments that we could take a little time out to rest there's Helen Kirkpatrick and the man in the center in this picture is Bill stringer and he was killed trying to get into Paris one of the things that correspond has tried to do is to get into Paris before anyone else and he was hit by an 88 shell but this is just a moment of relaxation we had a few and of course these are the shots I wanted to bring home to the family and friends but the little island was very quaint and it was a very old place but it was fortified in several ways we discovered that the beaches in the area especially when the tide was out would be high and dry and they put those sticks in the sand to keep our planes from landing we found a little family of three brothers and there there even the tall blond one was a boy I found out later because their grandmother is taking care of them their parents I was told was killed at the Battle of saint-lo one afternoon rather late I walked out behind the Allen because as the Sun was setting I could get some interesting shots of the island from the seaside because they have a extremely high tide here and would leave the island high and dry but the tide would come in real fast and there was always danger of quicksand so I didn't stand in one place too long but the receding waters left this unusual design in the sand we didn't stay at Mont saint-michel very long but continued on deeper into France in fact I went into Brittany for a while and discovered that the boys had found a lake there which we'll see in a moment but the countryside was beautiful it was during the summer and the crops were still in the field but our boys after washing out of a helmet for many weeks decided to use this beautiful Lake for a bath they were admitted to do so because they were fighting the enemy at an area called st. malo and incidentally you probably recall the Germans held out at Saint Malo for many months almost to the end of the war and of course it's the American sense of humor that helped them win the war - but here are some of the correspondence that we sometimes travel together and we found a little river that proved to be useful as a bath the there are a lot of these small rivers around France and at every moment that we could spare the correspondence this is a group of them that's Ralph Morse in the front and fury Broderick and and Joe Priestley and of course here we see Edward G Robinson Edward G Robinson's was one of the many actors and actresses that came to Normandy to entertain our troops and they held a show right in this Normandy barn that was not too far from the fighting and George Stevens the Hollywood director myself and cost Pete Carroll it was shortly after these pictures were taken that Ernie Pyle decided to return back to the States and then went to the Pacific where he was killed George Stevens was a very one on Hollywood director I'm sure you recall and he died only a few years ago but practically every correspondent turned out to try to get into the city of Paris but we found as I said earlier that the general Eisenhower had given permission to the second French Armored Division to take the city of Paris because the important thing was to destroy the enemy and they didn't consider Paris as a target it would delay them if they did try to take the city themselves they wanted to circumvent the city because they wanted to give the honor to the french general Eclair was in command of the 2nd Armored Division and he refused to let the correspondence accompany his force to get into the city simply because he didn't want any shots made until he had the city secure we were glad to see Paris because it was a city of great beauty and we were amazed at the way the people turned out and these are some of the shots taken on the first day of liberation I just didn't nearly get enough of these shots because there was too much to do and soon General de Gaulle came into the city and paraded down the shots early st. and here he has taken saluté and receiving some flowers from a French girl it must be remembered that the goal was not well known at this time and very few people could listen to the radio reports that told about his work in England prior to crossing the channel but soon he became very popular it seemed as though everybody in Paris turned out to see de Gaulle and he was marching down the chanson easy at this point and it was a tremendous sight to see later in the day our own troops paraded down the Avenue and this was something that made us all proud and here's de Gaulle parading and suddenly firing opened up from forces that were left behind and they thought from the ffs he and some of the fascists that were still in the city trying to panic the people but he stuck your head out of window you were bound to lose it and this went on continuously for several hours in fact I was in the middle of this thing and these are shots that I took of people lying flat on the ground they'd get under our car we couldn't move the car while they were trying to get the people to stop shooting by racing white flags but that went on continuously and although a small armed fire de Gaulle just stood his ground mother wasn't taking any chances but this this is the way the streets of Paris looked on the day of liberation they did catch some of these people who were responsible for the shooting at least they told us that and unfortunately they beat him to death right on the spot it was a rather ugly sight to see but somehow it was the war of nerves some of the buildings still contained Germans that were at headquarter points and they were sworn at by the French these are some shots made late in the day of the American troops marching through the streets of the city on the way to the front lines wherever we stopped the French were left to trade champagne for cigarettes and to talk to us and fire what was going on we were able to see the city it wasn't badly destroyed there was some small arms fire the lion lost his tail but generally speaking all the bridges were intact over the city and the this is the Opera House and it's since it was my first trip to Paris I enjoyed seeing the beautiful city of Paris soon the people of Paris were out parading again along the Chantilly say with their newfound Liberty we discovered that the Eiffel Tower which was reported destroyed and used for arms was still intact and soon I managed to get permission to go up into the Eiffel Tower and see what it looked like from up above but there was much to be done and even though the Paris looked beautiful conditions were very poor the railroads were practically destroyed there was no way of bringing in food in fact when we were coming down the road we saw a large trucks waiting to get into the city loaded with all kinds of foodstuffs to support the city which was in dire need not only of food but of coal because at this time it was getting pretty cold it was late in the year and there was no way of getting supplies in these are scenes from the Eiffel Tower showing the Seine and the buildings close to the Eiffel Tower we see some troops parading through the streets but we had to move on and soon I had to leave Paris and found myself in the countryside beyond Paris and went into Belgium where I managed to get into Brussels these are some scenes of the Okoye racetrack which we found was open shortly after the liberation this surprised everyone but they made them close the track after a few days of meeting but one of the things that did surprise everyone is how well-dressed the French women were and they had a way of using whatever they had to make themselves look really attractive and I understand this annoyed some of the other Allied countries very much to think that they could get by like that they even opened up the art galleries along the streets and we didn't know whether they were permitted to do this prior to our getting there but they certainly opened up for business very shortly after we arrived we found a painter at work in the old quarter of Paris and shortly after leaving Paris I was in an area called the Ardennes and the reason I took some of these shots of the countryside because the weather was turning cold and the trees were turning their fall colors and this is the town of who filiz which was completely destroyed on the breakthrough that occurred and the attack on the on Bastogne I was in Bastogne just a few days before the breakthrough and was fortunate enough to get out of there not knowing about the attack but I did think that this was a place that the enemy could hide troops and they did that's general Collins again talking to general Morris Rose who was in command of the 3rd Armored Division this is general Rose on the left general Rose was killed in Cologne was an unfortunate happening because they thought they had the place protected but there was some enemy troops in the area and he was shot these are units of the 3rd Armored Division that were fighting the enemy and we managed to get some shots of them as they were being entertained by German children we had a tremendous reception all the way across France but when we got to Germany the reception was not there all the homes in the German area had white flags in front of them as an indication of course of surrender and the children here were actually on their way to school and the children everywhere look cute there holding their is because our guns are firing not far away and they were just trying to avoid the noise we found the siegfried line as it was called or the dragon's teeth were which were built again by slave labor I'm told and they were not a fortification against our tanks because our bulldozers took dirt and pushed it over the top of them and rolled right over the top but we found these fortifications stretched out from one end of Germany to the other because somehow they felt that we'd perhaps get to Germany and they were trying to keep us out but they didn't succeed of course the wall was moving rather rapidly at some points in Germany and soon I found myself in the town of Aachen Aachen was under fire when these pictures were taken that's the reason the scenes a devoid of people there were mortar shells passing over our heads all the time and the enemy was holding the center of the city as we were making these shots and we were just wondering how long the battle would take and we discovered that the troops were just down behind that mould or that wreckage in the distance and soon we discovered that these reserves were just a block or two behind the frontline and they were waiting to be called in I was told later on that the captain you saw in the picture a moment ago that somebody in the audience knew him and said he was killed in the action that took place shortly after that well after arc and I was invited to fly home and this is something I was glad to be able to do because here we see some of the cemeteries that were built on the Normandy beaches above the beaches and these are scenes of Berlin showing the tremendous damage that occurred in the city the bombings were intense and very little of Berlin was left standing it shows that wars don't seem to prove very much except to destroy property and kill people and we sometimes think that maybe one day we'll learn how to avoid Wars and perhaps we've made war so deadly that we'll have to avoid them in the long run to stay alive soon I was able to photograph some the events when General Eisenhower came back to the states and was greeted in Kansas City these shots were made with a telephoto lens at quite a distance then I was able to visit the collection of some of the weapons the Germans used just after the invasion this is the v2 rocket that followed the v1 s the v1 s were a terror weapon and the v2 s was certainly the same but that was the first time they used rockets and they were able to shoot them great distances the free ones and I heard many of them come overhead were like a motorcycle engine and whenever the motor stopped it would cause the bomb to drop the Germans had jet planes in the air before the war ended and here is one that they actually used and it showed a record of many American planes and if you notice 42 Russians were shot down by this plane before it was captured by our side and in this exhibit we see one of the Japanese kamikaze bombs that was on exhibition and one of our pilots is trying it for size and they didn't like the idea that you only had a one-way ticket because they were intended to destroy the target they were after in the pilot with it this plane I was told was built by the enemy to bomb New York and it could fly the ocean and back and they appropriately named it Hollis kaput here we see some shots of what I call the what the next war might look like and this is the explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico and I always like to feel when I show these pictures that perhaps they'll remind people that we ought to remember what World War 2 was like in that world war 3 would be much worse but I'd like to say that repeat what one scientist aptly put it when he said the atomic bomb is here to stay the question is are we and that brings us to the end of our film and thank you very much very familiar as you remember it well the pictures have lasted they're beginning to fade I'm afraid and I guess in time I fortunately have a print of it and try to keep him fresh as long as I can well thank you sir these were shot of course at moments of relaxation I did many thousands of feet and thirty five-millimeter which were used in theatrical release but you needed four hands to operate two cameras well I have a little secret to tell about the film I I took along a limited amount of film but the signal car whenever film was out of date would not want to use it if it was one day past the date line they'd destroy it and I managed to get some of it and it proved to be perfectly usable and I was able to get it some of the film was processed in England and one roll that was very green was used and it was lost for a while and then I had it processed and that color didn't come out as well but they tell me that this is some of the few pictures that were made in color of the invasion but the idea was to bring back pictures of some friends who are no longer with us anymore thank you very much gentlemen I appreciate your kind attention

Channel: CHRONOS-MEDIA History

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Keywords: PLAY_SOL, Jack Lieb, Plymouth 1945, London 1945, newsreels 1945, Associated Press, 16mm camera, 35mm camera, war cameraman, Westminster Abbey, Barrage balloon, Cherbourg, Valognes, Mont St. Michel, Westwall, Siegfried Line

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Length: 43min 45sec (2625 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 10 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/erl1]

I highly recommend watching the entire film, incredible footage and great narration.

[u/Colonel_Kun]

I want that Me 262 camo -

[u/ggouge]

That ju 290 is crazy. Now i want the ju 290 in the game even more. Thats amazing footage. Only the sign say ju388 not ju288.

[u/Nerev123]

I would love to have Ju 388 night fighter in the game.

[u/Parasite41]

There is also an interesting bit about P-47s starting at 21:20, including a mid air collision.

[u/RandaZzoo]

Toward the end it really struck me when he said,"And here's what I think the next war will look like" Describing the atomic bomb explosion.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, the footage on this is incredible.

[u/Popsnacks2]

Makes you wonder where these artifacts of history disappeared to. Where is that German bomber now? What about the 262? Lost to history somewhere I guess.