# RHINE BARRIER SMASHED

National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39163, LI 208-UN-1046 - RHINE BARRIER SMASHED - DVD Copied by Justin Grimes. Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Shows land and air operations against Germany in March, 1945. American airplanes conduct daytime and nighttime bombings. Royal Air Force gliders and troop carriers take off from England with airborne troops. American airborne troops embark from France and land in Germany. Shows elements of the 9th Army crossing the Rhine River. Prime minister Churchill and Field Marshall Montgomery cross the Rhine and are shown with Gen. Eisenhower. German prisoners cross the river.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1945
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.39163)
- 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.