Coblenz Key to Saar Captured
4/5/1945
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The original release sheet for this Universal Newsreel segment reads:
CAPTURE OF COBLENZ: FLAIL TANKS: The Canadian First Army uses huge tanks with heavy rotating chain beaters in front of them which explode any and all buried Nazi road mines. With tanks leading the way, units of Gen. Patton’s U.S. 3rd Army advance on Coblenz, the thousand-year-old transportation center. Repeated air bombings and heavy artillery fire have reduced the city to ruins, from which the Nazis offer scattered resistance. —Tom Priestley, Universal cameraman, covers the entire action. Soldier dead litter the ground. A loud speaker is used to demand and direct surrender and several thousand Nazi prisoners are collared. White flags flutter from the few remaining ancient homes. Ancient Ehrenbrightstein Castle, used by the Germans as a fortress, is a battered pile of ruins. American tanks rumble through the narrow streets, and head eastward, deeper into Germany.
CAPTURE OF COBLENZ: FLAIL TANKS: The Canadian First Army uses huge tanks with heavy rotating chain beaters in front of them which explode any and all buried Nazi road mines. With tanks leading the way, units of Gen. Patton’s U.S. 3rd Army advance on Coblenz, the thousand-year-old transportation center. Repeated air bombings and heavy artillery fire have reduced the city to ruins, from which the Nazis offer scattered resistance. —Tom Priestley, Universal cameraman, covers the entire action. Soldier dead litter the ground. A loud speaker is used to demand and direct surrender and several thousand Nazi prisoners are collared. White flags flutter from the few remaining ancient homes. Ancient Ehrenbrightstein Castle, used by the Germans as a fortress, is a battered pile of ruins. American tanks rumble through the narrow streets, and head eastward, deeper into Germany.
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National Archives Identifier: 234272835
Full Citation: UN-UN-18-387; Coblenz Key to Saar Captured; 4/5/1945; Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library, 1929–1967; Collection UN: MCA/Universal Pictures Collection; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/coblenz-key-to-saar-captured, April 27, 2024]Rights: Copyright Not Evaluated Learn more on our privacy and legal page.