WW2 Amphibious Pontoons, Rhine River H1573-04 | Footage Farm

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[WWII - 1945, Amphibious Pontoons in Convoy; Rhine River Crossing by Americans, German POWs]
Trucks in convoy carrying pontoon sections, move along a road in Germany. Allied tanks passing German Prisoners of War w/ hands above heads alongside road. Infantry walking along country road past farms, across fields. Large track vehicles past.
12:51:45 River w/ many DUKWs crossing in heavy currents.
12:52:05 Captured smoke machine tested, CU roiling smoke.
12:52:20 GIs loading truck & artillery onto pontoon raft to cross river, moved by outboard motors on flat boats.
12:52:43 LS infantry across field, up riverbank. MS German prisoners questioned, waiting, marched off along road.
12:53:44 River & large pontoon barges moved into place for bridge construction. Men run ashore. Dead body on river bank. GIs roping pontoon sections together & lay racks on surface. High angle, jeep driven aboard; push off in fog w/ outboards. GI infantry boarding & across river. March along river bank to board landing craft w/ medics. Leaving in smoke screen. POV from landing craft. Other boarding, high angle of boat in river & men running ashore.
12:57:06 Officer on shore w/ field telephone watching. Good of boat arriving opposite shore & men up bank.
12:57:33 Empty narrow village street.
12:57:39 Rafts w/ German POWs arrive, men off, march along road on top of riverbank, thru town.
12:58:14 End of R1
12;58:28 German Prisoners of War laying on ground in orchard under guard. MCU injured.
12:58:35 Large truck w/ amphibious bridge sections & anchors. Army trucks & tanks thru village. Infantry across field w/ tanks in mist or fog. Large track personnel carriers to beach. Infantry moving wooden bridging down beach, pontoon bridge sections into place. Landing craft loaded & crossing Rhine River in fog or smoke screen. Tank onto pontoon barge & moved across river by four outboard motors. Bridge extended into river.
13:01:05 German POWs off small boat, hurried up riverbank under guard; MCU prisoners. Searched, walking off.
WW2 Advancing; Germany;
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