Invasion Scenes France (1944)
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- Опубліковано 12 кві 2014
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Invasion scenes, Lisieux, France.
C/U sign 'St. Desir de Lisieux'. Various shots of British soldiers walking through ruined town with their guns. M/S's soldier speaking on field telephone. Various shots of soldiers in street, a woman brings one a drink as he watches through gun sight. L/S rubble of town. M/S gun trained on domed building in distance. M/S soldier at window of house listening to instructions through earphones. M/S tank firing. M/S sign to Paris and Deauville. M/S soldier on motorbike. Various shots of soldiers stood around army truck. M/S soldiers walking past sign to Lisieux. Various shots of soldiers walking through. Various shots of rubble piled up, the soldiers walk over it. Various shots of the ruins of houses and other buildings. M/S soldiers with machine guns, M/S tank firing. M/S as soldier puts flower in local girl's hair and they laugh.
FILM ID:1998.14
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1:08 scene of highlanders guarding street corner while local woman serve a drink to Bren gunner laying prone with his machine gun aimed down the street. I've seen a photo of this same scene.
With all the destruction from the bombing it is a MIRACLE the Cathedral survived.
It's actually a Basilica and houses the incorrupt body of St Therese of Lisieux, who died in 1897 and was beatified in the 1920s.
Lest we forget!
0:48 using field radio while walking through rubble
1:46 Cromwell tank using its machine guns
At 2:49, a schwimmawagen on the left.
Black Watch regiment from 51 rst Highland division who liberated Lisieux the 23 August 1944, after the escape of the german 272 infanterie division...
0:23 Basilica of Saint Thérèse
My hometown. More than 800 civilians died on the night of the 6th of June while bomber command was missing the railway station and burned the old medieval town. No hate towards british troops. Everybody then knew who the ennemy was : nazis and collaborators.
Hello and greetings to you Eric. How sad were such terrible losses, RIP to them all. Having a great devotion to St. Therese I have visited Lisieux many, many times. I Love the place and so it is so ,so sad to also imagine the architectural gems and much else beside, lost in the town's basic destruction. Nonetheless the spirit survives as did the wonderful Basilica, Carmel, St. Pierre, and St Jacques a miracle in and of itself. Salut.