1940 Die letzte Scharmützel an der Westfront
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May 8, 1940. UFA Tonwoche No. 505. German assault troops penetrate several kilometers beyond the border and into enemy positions to reconnoiter and seize prisoners. An assault troop in action.The French respond with fire. The assault troop overruns a forward French position and capture a large...
1940 Gemeinsame Übungen am Westwall
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UFA Tonwoche No. 504. May 1, 1940. In the area of the western fortifications exercises involving both light and heavy weapons take place. In quick time the military engineers have established a crossing. The path for the assault troops is now open.Light infantry-support artillery is brought...
1940 French troops in the trenches
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British Newsreel. April 25, 1940.
1940 French tanks on the Western Front
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British Newsreel. April 25, 1940.The R-35 was the most numerous of French light infantry tanks in service in 1940 with over 1600 units completed.In 1933 the French High Command called for the design of a 6 ton tank as a replacement for the aging Renault FT-17. The vehicle was designed to have a...
1940 French Moranes on patrol
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British Newsreel. April 15, 1940.The M.S.406 was a French Armée de l'Air fighter aircraft built by Morane-Saulnier starting in 1938. Numerically it was France's most important fighter during the opening stages of World War II but was under-powered, weakly armed and lacked full armour protection...
1940 With the Dutch Army
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Dutch Newsreel. April 1940. The Dutch Royal family inspects the Dutch army on training maneuvers.
1940 Dutch Female Volunteers
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Italian newsreel. April 12, 1940.Not only was the Dutch Army poorly equipped; it was also poorly trained. Before the war only a minority of eligible young men had actually been conscripted — and often the least fit as it was easy to be exempted unless you were unemployed. Those enlisted only...
1940 The Dyle Plan
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British Newsreel. April 11, 1940.The Dyle Plan or D Plan was the primary war plan of the French Army to stave off the expected German attack during Fall Gelb. It was conceived by French General Maurice Gamelin in 1940. Named after the Dyle River, which flows from southern Belgium down to Antwerp,...
1940 Dutch Army maneuvers
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Italian Newsreel. No. 9. April 9, 1940. In the Netherlands nearly all the material conditions were present for a successful defence: a dense population, wealthy, young, disciplined and well-educated; a geography favouring the defender and a strong technological and industrial basis including a...
1940 German AA Drills
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Italian Newsreel No. 8. April 9, 1940.Germany's high-altitude needs were originally going to be filled by a 75 mm gun from Krupp, designed in collaboration with their Swedish counterpart Bofors, but the specifications were later amended to require much higher performance. In response Krupp's...
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