United News, Release 1041-1045 (1945) DRESDEN BLASTED, LEADERS VISIT WESTERN FRONT

From of the United News collection, a World War II news series created to boost morale at home and abroad.

DRESDEN BLASTED, 1945: 1. Hordes of British and 8th Air Force planes bomb Dresden by day and night. 2. Paris and other French towns are flooded. 3. Gen. De Gaulle decorates French and U.S. Soldiers, including Generals Devers and Patch, in celebration of the triumph at Colmar. 4. Shows Churchill and Field Marshall Alexander in Athens. 5. Allied troops advance in Germany. Soldiers cross a river under a smoke screen.

CIVIL AFFAIRS IN GERMANY, 1945: 1. German citizens return to their devastated homes as U.S. Army civil affairs units restore order and prepare for rationing food. 2. Shows ground and aerial views of a new British jet plane. 3. U.S. Cigarettes and candy are given to Russian troops at a British rest camp. 4. Allied planes bomb 8 German railroad centers and strafe airfields.

LEADERS VISIT WESTERN FRONT, 1945: 1. Russian generals talk with freed prisoners of war. Winston Churchill, Field Marshalls Montgomery and Brooke, and Gen. Simpson inspect the Siegfried Line; Gens. Eisenhower and Simpson view a battle area. 2. An American ship brings lend-lease equipment to LeHavre, France. 3. Shows a ceremony in a town in Holland where the town square is renamed in honor of the 30th Infantry ("Old Hickory") Division. General Leland S. Hobbs receives a picture of the square. 4. Shows a 9-year-old blind pianist in Holland whose study in America will be financed by American airmen. 5. Shows bombing of and street fighting in Cologne, Germany.

SHERMAN TANKS MOUNT ROCKETS, 1945: 1. Rockets are armed, loaded, and fired from Sherman tanks. 2. President Benes of Czechoslovakia reviews Czech troops in England and leaves exile for return home. 3. Citizens of Cologne, Germany, come out of hiding to plunder food, to cook and launder, and to relinquish arms as soldiers battle in other parts of the city. Includes shots of captured German soldiers and of American soldiers crossing the Rhine River.

BASTOGNE DEFENDERS HONORED, 1945: 1. The 101st Airborne Div. Is inspected by Gens. Eisenhower and Taylor, is decorated, and passes in review. 2. Shows an English blockbuster (22,000 lbs.) and aerial views of its use on German targets. 3. 500 Dutch children are entertained by American soldiers in England. 4. Shows the use and repair of the only bridge across the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, and the ruins after its collapse. Includes shots of the 1st Army fighting in Coblenz, Germany.

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