INVASION OF POLAND IN 1939 BY GERMAN ARMY
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Date: 2010-04-15

ARC Identifier 24457 / Local Identifier 111-FB-48 - Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) - 1943 - Captured German films.  Reel 1, armored columns assemble for the assault.  A building in Danzig is shelled, sprayed with gasoline, and burned.  Machine gunners advance on motorcycles; tanks advance. A town is burned and occupied; a bridge over the Vistula is repaired. Troops rest in transit and clean weapons. A ship shells Gdynia.  Aerial photographs are made and studied.   Reel 2, planes are readied for a mission. Bombers and Stukas hit targets. Artillery and infantry attack Warsaw. The city is taken; prisoners and captured weapons are assembled. Troops parade in Warsaw. - Copied by Tim Vollmer