# THE FIGHTING FIRST (Reel 1)

National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 35933 / Local Identifier 111-M-1279 THE FIGHTING FIRST (Reel 1) Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964). On the 1st Infantry Division in World War II. Reel 1, recruits train, go to England, debark for Africa, and capture Oran. Shows Gen. Terry Allen, Rommel, and German troops. Troops battle at Kasserine and meet the British. Sicily is invaded and a town is captured. Reel 2 shows amphibious training in England and the invasion of France at Omaha Beach. Tanks fire among hedgerows; engineers dig up mines; the Division enters Coutance, Mortain, Etampes, Meaux, and Soissons and enters Belgium. Troops battle for Aachen and the Hurtgen Forest and then rest in Belgium before the Ardennes campaign. The Division crosses Remagen Bridge and fights in Germany. DVD Copied by Master Scanner Thomas Gideon.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1946
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.35933.r1)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.