Previous: Army and Air Force Films, Captured German Films, 1936, 1940-45
| . | |||||||||||||
Tape Recordings & Videocassettes |
|||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 33 | Ted Malone's Westinghouse Radio Overseas Broadcast in France, 14 July 1944 | ||||||||||||
| NBC Blue Network war correspondent Gordon Fraser's report from Manhay, Ardennes, Belgium, ca 8 Jan. 1945 He interviewed Col. William B. Lovelady, CCB & Col. George Garton, CCB. | |||||||||||||
| "The Treasury Salutes" program on the December 21-25, 1944 action of Lt. Col. Samuel Hogan's unit in the Ardennes, the "Battle of Hogan's Men". With background sound effects, the narrator described attacks on German positions at Hotton, Belgium, taking a position at LaRoche, encirclement, establishing road blocks around Marcouray, abandoning equipment and hiking out of the encirclement. The program is followed by an account by Major Travis Brown of Col. Howze's 3rd Bn. of the 33rd Armored Regiment, a part of Task Force Hogan. (45 minutes). Brown's 1981 account was from G-2 reports. He described encounters with German detachments and his escape with several others via Marche. | |||||||||||||
| Videotapes of films from the National Archives. | |||||||||||||
| NARA Film 18 CS 3227 (AAFCFS no. 3227) 9 minutes, 40 seconds, silent. British Troops on D-Day in Normandy, June, 1944. Shipboard briefing, ships in Channel, maps, Sikhs, LCIs, loading troops, going over the side, aircraft, bombardment, shoreline, landing on beach, digging in. | |||||||||||||
| NARS Film ADC 2730 (LIB 658) , 15 November 1944. 8 minutes 10 seconds, 751' silent. 3rd Armored Division, Rocket Barrage and Attack Push Off; Mausbach, Germany Soldiers of the 18th Field Artillery Battalion load multiple rocket launchers; line of launchers; control set and firing device; row of launchers is fired. Tanks and other vehicles move along skyline toward Mausbach. Photographed from inside pillbox, armored vehicles move along edge of terrain, German shells burst near convoy. Armored cars, light tanks, medium tanks and armored vehicles on dirt road outside of city. (Note: Armored cars and vehicles are of the US 3rd Armored Division. A copy of the National Archives' detailed description of this film is stored with the videocassette.) | |||||||||||||
| NARS Film 18 CS 3237-1 (AAFCFS no. 3237 reel 1), November, 1944. 7 minutes, silent. 3rd Armored Division, Tank Air Support. Large explosions in town from dive-bombing and strafing, dense smoke, anti-aircraft crew at gun, plane formation dive bombing, front lines shooting armored vehicles, infantrymen crouching, shelling, very heavy mortar fire. Ruined German town, demolished buildings, explosions, dense smoke. Dive bombers circling target and plane dive bombing on hill in wooded area. Group infantrymen looking through binoculars, taking notes, tanks passing camera, battery rocket guns firing leaving heavy smoke columns, listening to air-ground communication over radio, and tanks. Col. Lovelady, CO talking to another officer at advanced command post, tanks go into action past camera across fields, camouflaged tank, tanks going over hill into deep quarry, men firing mortars, tanks opening up barrage, tank crew member climbing out of tank turret appears to be stunned, other tank crew members helping stunned man, officer looking through binoculars, and GI standing by. (A copy of the National Archives' detailed description of this film is stored with the videocassette.) | |||||||||||||
| 16mm Film positive copies (on spools) of NARS films 18 CS 3237-1 reel 1 and 111 ADC 2730 | |||||||||||||
| Tape recordings | |||||||||||||
| WHO (Des Moines, Iowa), Farm Review, July 26, 1968 | |||||||||||||
| Herb Plambeck Program, July 27, 1968 | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 34 | NARA Film ADC 2208 (LIB 3753) , 6 March 1945 3rd Armored Division, Cologne, Germany, Tank advance, machine gun, German tank hit & abandoned, Cathedral, troop advance, tracer fire. Also tour of 3rd Armored Division at Frankfurt, Germany, 1986. | ||||||||||||
| Cumberland Marketing International, Historical Video Cassette. | |||||||||||||
| First Army at war; Breakout and Pursuit; Aachen to the Roer River, August, 1944 - February, 1945 | |||||||||||||
| Third Armored Division Interviews by Charles Corbin, 1989-90. William Lovelady, Andrew Barr, Haynes Dugan, Leroy Hanneman, Olin Brewster, Auria Pierro, William Whitten, Travis Brown, Clark Worrell, and Clement Elissondo. | |||||||||||||
| Charles R. Corbin videocassette, "Battle of the Bulge", 2 hours, color (2 copies), March 29, 1990. | |||||||||||||
| Videotape of trip Charles Corbin took to cities in Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg that were involved in the Battle of the Bulge, Sept. 22-Oct. 13, 1989 Narration describes the activities of the opposing forces in the battle, especially the role of Task Force Lovelady. Corbin relates his experiences in December, 1944, primarily in Parfondroy and Stavelot. The cities covered in Corbin's trip were Monschau, Germany; Clervaux, Luxembourg; and Baugnez, Stavelot, Bastogne, Spa, La Gleize, Grand Coo, Trois Ponts, Parfondroy, Malempre, Manhay, and Grandmenil, Belgium. Sites visited include a memorial to victims of the Malmedy Massacre at Baugnez, a museum on the Battle of the Bulge in La Gleize, houses in Parfondroy where Corbin stayed in 1944, and roads to Houffalize which the 3rd Armored Division took to meet the 3rd Army in January, 1945. | |||||||||||||
| Charles R. Corbin videocassette, "3rd Armored Division Museum, Frankfurt, West Germany", 50 minutes, color, Oct. 18, 1989. Guided tour of the museum given by its curator, Dan Peterson. Cases include displays of medals; layout of the division; training at Camp Polk; the five campaigns the division was involved in during World War II, with maps, photographs, newspaper articles, uniforms, rifles, machine guns, and other equipment; the division at Ft. Knox, 1947-56; and its tour of duty in Europe since 1956. A large room in the museum contained a life-size diorama of a German town, with an armored personnel carrier, jeep and command car. A display of vehicles outside the museum includes armored trucks, jeeps, and Patton and Pershing tanks. | |||||||||||||
| Robert F. Kauffman videocassette, "Behind the Headlines - Return to the Battle of the Bulge", of program by Dick Dean of station WFMZ in Pennsylvania, November-December 1990. Kauffman described infantry arriving in halftracks for an assault on Grandmenil. Under artillery fire they reached the town, where five tanks took positions and the infantry found shelter in a basement. To extricate themselves, they called in artillery fire on their own position. In the assault, a German tank round killed Lt. Millets and Pvt. Lester Wertman. The infantry withdrew to a stone barn and left the town. A colonel ordered a new attack, which succeeded against machine gun fire. The videotape contains a mixture of World War II combat photographs and 1990 shots of the locations described. In transitions, Belgians are giving directions and there are scenes of American war memorials. Kauffman interviewed German veterans of the Bulge. The tape includes an interview with Jack Kampf of the Third Parachute Division, who said that there was no enthusiasm but a willingness to obey. He added that the first time he thought Germany would lose the war was on 18 January 1945. Kauffman stated that his war experiences 46 years ago were "invaluable." | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 35 | Scott Van Ness videocassette - 1/2 inch videotape of three separate films. | ||||||||||||
| German Panther tank kill---Cologne, March, 1945. | |||||||||||||
| Captured German film--Ardennes, Dec. 1944. | |||||||||||||
| Air Power - Victory in Europe, 24 minutes. | |||||||||||||
| William Cohen Film (Medical), "Third Armored Division in, 1943-44 Rose awards medals in Normandy; Seine crossing at Melun; Chateau Thierry Monument; German POWs at Mons; capture of Liege; crossing German border; USO entertainment; Stolberg and Mausbach aid stations; Paris; England - Sutton Veny, Salisbury, Wells, Cheddar, Bath, London. | |||||||||||||
| War Department, Historical Film. 35 minute black and white documentary covering the American 1st Army from Aachen to Roer. Covers unit movements as well as military construction, and the use of German steel plants and mills. | |||||||||||||
| Tape Recording - 50th anniversary celebration of the activation of the Third Armored Division held at Camp Beauregard, LA, Haynes W. Dugan speaking for the Association, April 13, 1991 | |||||||||||||
| William Barron Interview (32AR) - , 1992 Barron relates the events following his capture by Joachim Peiper's 1st SS on December 17, 1944. Saved from execution by his ability to drive jeep, he eventually was placed in a POW camp and liberated by Russian soldiers on 23 April 1945. | |||||||||||||
| St. Mary's Church, Codford England audio cassette, October 1994 | |||||||||||||
| Interview of British Major General Michael F. Reynolds by Robert Kauffman concerning Joachim Peiper and the LaGleize action. (Includes letter by Hans Zeplein.) | |||||||||||||
| 747th Separate Tank Battalion crossing the Rhine River- . , March 1945 | |||||||||||||
| "Tank Platoon" videocassette, 1991 | |||||||||||||
| Presentation of all U.S. Army tanks and armored vehicles in use since World War II. | |||||||||||||
| "Gardens of Stone". , 1987 Veteran WWII officers and young recruits react to the Vietnam war; set in 1968 at Arlington National Cemetery and stars James Caan, James Earl Jones, Angelica Huston; movie is dedicated to the Third U.S. Infantry | |||||||||||||
| "The Gulf War and the Media", 1991 A conference of 80 reporters, editors and scholars engaging in sometimes heated discussions over how the media can and should cover the type of war seen in Iraq. Held Sept. 13, 1991 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. | |||||||||||||
| "Schwarzkopf: How the War was Won" - 70 minute, 1991 ABC News coverage of the General Norman Schwarzkopf briefing held in March, 1991, describing the Coalition victory in the Persian Gulf War. | |||||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 36 | Interview with members of Service Company, 33rd Armored Regiment, about their experiences in Europe, by William Ruth, 1998 | ||||||||||||
| Lafayette G. Pool Hall Dedication, Fort Knox, KY, July 1, 1993, | |||||||||||||
| Third Armored Division Reunion Memorial Service and Banquet, Indianapolis, IN, 1993 | |||||||||||||
| "First Episode: 75th Infantry Division Combat History," moderated by Alfred S. Roxburgh, August 1997. | |||||||||||||
Next: Published Guides to Microfilmed German Records, 1934-45