# AMERICAN FIRST ARMY--AACHEN TO THE ROER RIVER

AMERICAN FIRST ARMY--AACHEN TO THE ROER RIVER Produced: 1946 Description Reel 1 shows rubbled houses, rail centers, and electric plants in Aachen, Ger. Allied Military Government agents distribute food and supervise crews clearing debris. Refugees return to the city; 3rd Armored Div. troops eat a hot meal on its outskirts. Engrs. build roads through the Hurtgen Forest. 28th Div. troops, with mortar and machine gun support, advance (Nov. 28,1944) through a wooded area as a three-pronged assault is begun. Inf. columns move to the front. Ger. POW's file into an assembly area and are evacuated by, truck. Artillery and antitank guns are, emplaced for defense. Underground emplacements are built as snow falls. Reel 2 shows a supply depot at Liege, Belg. Communication lines are expanded. U.,S. Army Engrs. supervise steel manufacture and sawmill operation in Luxemburg, repair a bridge over the Meuse, and bury tank traps in the Siegfried Line. Trucks are repaired and munitions hauled to the front. The 9th A.A.F. bombs Duren Armor and supply vehicles of the 104th Inf. Div. move up, inf. advance through the forest, casualties are evacuated from a demolished command post near Stolberg, and the town's civilians receive first aid. Reel 3, 9th A. A. F. planes strafe Ger. positions near the town. The 104th Div. - enters Eschweiler and smaller villages; mined buildings are detonated as tanks move through the towns. Roadblocks are cleared and a bridge thrown over a stream and crossed by units…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1946
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/111-hrb-30-r4)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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