315TH INF REGT, 79TH DIVISION, LA HAYE DU PUIT, FRANCE, BERNIERES, ST AUBIN, GERMAN PO - LMWWIIHD146

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79th Infantry Division in La Haye Du Puits, France. German POWS July 1944
"US SOLDIERS WALKING THROUGH ABANDONED TOWN LA HAYE DU PUITS TWO SOLDIERS ENTER ABANDONED SHOP TOWN GERMAN PRISONERS MARCHING CLOSE UP OF GERMAN PRISONER US MEDIC AND TROOPS AROUND BODY COVER BODY US MEDICS TREAT WOUNDED MAN ON GROUND US MEDICS GATHERED US MEDIC TREATS WOUNDED MAN ON GROUND MEDICS GATHERED ABANDONED TOWN DUSTY SOLDIER SOLDIER WALK ABANDONED TOWN US SOLDIERS WALK ALONG PATH TOWN US SOLDIERS WALK THROUGH GRASS PATH TOWN ABANDONED RUIN TRUCK DRIVES THROUGH ABANDONED TOWN US SOLDIERS WALK US SOLDIERS RUN THROUGH GRASS RUBBLE ABANDONED TOWN TRUCK US SOLDIERS WALK DOWN ABANDONED TOWN PATH US SOLDIERS WALK THROUGH ABANDONED TOWN PATH ROVER DRIVES BY US SOLDIERS STANDING AGAINST DESTROYED BUILDING WALL RUBBLE US SOLDIERS WALK THROUGH RUBBLE INSIDE RUINED BUILDING SOLDIERS SITTING ALONG ABANDONED BUILDING WALL PRISONERS POWS STANDING AGAINST WALL US SOLDIER GUARDS RUBBLE CLOSE UP GERMAN PRISONERS POWS US SOLDIERS WALK WITH POW HANDS UP PRISONER ANOTHER PRISONER STANDS AGAINST WALL POW POW GERMAN PRISONER GETS SEARCHED BY US SOLDIER US SOLDIERS WALKING THROUGH ABANDONED TOWN TRUCK RUBBLE US SOLDIERS GATHERED TALK STAND SIT BUILDING STAIRS HAPPY SMILE SHAKE HANDS july 9 1944 Tug Boats BOAT DOCKS BOATS NEAR TOWN MOUNT BATTEN BRITISH OFFICERS SHAKE HANDS NEAR PLANE SMILE THREE OFFICERS TALKING PLANES IN BACKGROUND OFFICER WALKS SHAKES DRIVERS HAND GETS IN JEEP DRIVES SMILES OFFICER WALKING THROUGH WOODS SHAKES HAND SMILES OFFICER WALKS IN TO HUT TAKES HAT OFF OFFICERS TALKING IN HUT GATHERING SPEECH OUTSIDE OF HUT OFFICER DRIVES AWAY IN JEEP MEN IN SMALL BOAT RIVER FERRY MEN UNLOADING FROM BOAT ON TO LAND MEN LOADING ON TO SMALL BOAT WOUNDED MAN LOADED ON TO SMALL BOAT SMALL BOAT SAILING ACROSS RIVER WOODEN PORT RIVER LOADING ON TO FERRY VEHICLE MOVING DIRT MOVING FERRY "

[@antique7391]

At about 6:50 it switches to maybe Burma? with Mountbatten and the American General "Vinegar" Joe Stillwell.

[@James_Cy]

3:36 the GI on the right is wearing the 8th Infantry Division patch. This is not the 79th ID........

[@lightfighter3023]

Regardless, the 79th was there at the time. my great uncle was KIA July 13th.

[@glennb2227]

@@lightfighter3023 My great uncle was KIA near there on July 9th, 1944.

[@chemBTW]

@@glennb2227 my great grandfather was WIA 9th July 1944. he was 79th DIV 315th REGT. Company B.

[@glennb2227]

@@chemBTW My Great Uncle was also 79th Div. 315th Reg., but I can't recall if he was in Company B or not. Not sure if I know how to track that down.

[@copycatcarlton]

James C My Dad was 79th ID 314th company I. He was wounded at LaHaye du Puit. He is still with us and just turned 95 in April. He still remembers a great deal about his time in combat. He remembers many bad things that he wishes he could forget such as friends getting killed. He was only 19 at the time.

[@marknostrant2252]

at 1:24 the american soldiers look like they are wearing ballistic vests. I know there were flak jackets in Korea and WWII pilots had vests but not that some soldiers had them.

[@simcardo777]

it is an ammunition carrying vest, designated as M2 Ammunition bag; they have large pockets on fore and rear sides which can fit large ordnance such as mortar or bazooka rounds

[@SCNative_76]

Not the 79th...8th Division