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You can almost read the minds of the surrendered German troops. “Shit! These Yanks just have an inexhaustible supply of military equipment… “

Farbaufnahmen bringen das Geschehen direkt näher. Interessant wäre zu erfahren an welchem Orten die jeweiligen Filmsequenzen aufgenommenen wurden.

2 days ago, Feb 3rd was my fathers 105th birthday. But he passed away Feb 28th 2021 at 102. He drove a M3 Halftrack for the 23rd Armored Engineers of the 3rd Army as part of Spearhead. Every time I see a halftrack I can’t help but wonder if he’s behind the wheel. His last stop was Dessau about a 2 hour drive from this area so it’s not too much of a stretch to wonder this. Especially when they’re showing engineers doing their thing.

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I'm wondering if this isn't footage of the 3rd Armored Division in Thuringia, Germany.

That’s an M24 Chaffee crossing the bridge @

Thankyou, I have not seen this footage, very nice.

Smoking a pipe in a dry hay stack was the most dangerous thing this GI ever did in the war.

My father fought in Europe during the war. He never spoke of it. Whatever he went through. He took to his grave. He would be 103 if he were still alive.

@worldwarfootage my great uncle William G Nahrwald died here April 8, 1945. He was in the 345th Infantry Regiment / Company F. Shot by a panzerfaust. Anyway of telling if his group would be in this footage.

Im from thuringia and the beginning of the video doesn't seem to be from here, but from the mid to end it looks pretty much like my homeland, just hills, grass, woods and not much more lol ;)

Excellent Presentation

My father (Scotland), was D-Day+1. He went through France Belgium Holland. He had about 7-8 medals. Wish I had talked about his life. We would watch War films & it was like he hadn't been there. Quite a disconnect as that reality was on a different planet to the modernity of the1960s.

I've seen still photos likely taken from this film, especially of the river crossing of the river into Austria. Excellent and fascinating to see all of it in actual color.

At 22.04 what tank model is this? It looks like the M-26 Pershing but, shorter barrel. Unless a M4 version. Thanks

So cool seeing Jumbo Sherman's on camera, I didnt know this footage existed. They only made a few hundred of them, the extra armor really put a strain on the suspension but they still handled it.

My grandmother's brother was KIA on April 11th 1945 somewhere in Germany.

I took an interest in this, seeing Thuringia in the title. In the 90s, being stationed in Wildflecken I did a little touring on my own. The flats in the beginning of this film remind me of the Fulda Gap area with the Thuringian mountains to the north and the Rhoen to the south. I took a drive one day through what had been East Germany, across the old border from Fulda and Circled around to Suhl and Meiningen and back to Wildflecken. That immediate area east of Fulda was extremely flat. Now. Watching this film further I see an 11 with a triangle painted on tank bumpers. That would be 11th Armor Division. A quick check in Google and 11AD, after helping break through the battle of the bulge, swept across to Fulda, into Thuringia. to Oberhof in April 1945. Then they moved down into Northern Bavaria, Coburg, Bayreuth and on.