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[WWII - 1940, Germany: Invasion of Belgium & Into France]
Montage: trucks thru town w/ burning buildings; aerial over Liege fortifications, soldier patrolling fortification, pan tank traps, German troops on city Citadel; Aerial low over Brussels as troops move thru w/ plane shadow on ground.
01:01:23 Soldiers in armored vehicles pulling artillery pass pedestrians; checkpoint w/ German soldiers distributing occupation bulletins. MS reading on walls.
01:01:51 CU road signs: toward Verdun, Bazeilles, Montmedy. Advancing trucks, tanks w/ tanks crossing stream, fields, on horizon.
01:02:19 Aerial of bomber; many tanks across field; twin-engine bombers overhead; MS German troops out of half-track, raising artillery, CU tanks past fast. Messerschmitt fighters in flight, dive bombers. LS artillery firing, tanks, large artillery firing & explosions, railroad guns.
01:03;20 Aerial over equipment moving on tree-lined road; damaged French tanks along road, CUs. Germans inspect damage.
01:03:51 Line of French prisoners including Senegalese & other colonial troops toward camera & along road, assembled in field holding camp, CUs.
01:04:48 Staff vehicle along road past overturned truck in water-filled bomb crater. German vehicles crossing Maginot Line toward France, along road, across pontoon bridge. Tanks, trucks etc. past on dusty road.
WW2 Brussels Invaded; Prisoners of War; POWs;
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