War Pictorial News Number 174 (1944)
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National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39199, LI 208-WP-174 - War Pictorial News Number 174 (1944). Series: Motion Picture Films from "War Pictorial News" Newsreels, compiled 1943 - 1945. Part 1, streets in Rennes are swept for mines. U.S. troops and mechanized equipment move through the city as civilians cheer. Nazi collaborators are assailed by civilians; prisoners are marched through the town. Part 2, B-24's bomb a railway yard in France. Part 3, field guns are fired and Brit. inf. moves up near Caen. Tanks move past abandoned and demolished Ger. equipment. Part 4, Russ. tanks and infantry advance in Romania.
