DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU NR 689 - part [Main Title]

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  • Title: DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU NR 689 - part [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 191
  • Other titles: DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU NR 1943/48 - part [Alternative Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Night-fighting and tank battles in area of Krivoi Rog. (Abrupt start) Battle continues on through the night, with German flares and tracer illuminating darkness against enemy attack. As day breaks, sun lies over horizon above lake or wide river and men in front line trenches receive ammunition cases and supplies brought forward by comrades through trench system. Machine gun is loaded, river bank scanned and young soldier drinks from water flask as another, wearing Iron Cross, smokes in trench. Sector commander describes position to his men in the trench. Deep ? under German supervision). In battle area north of Ghebarovsk (?) Panzer Division launches counterattack, with column of Marder II, Pzkpfw IV, Sdkfz 251/9, Sdkfz 251/17 2cm Flak, armour skirted Pzkpfw IV Ausf Hs moving forward before tank battle over wide area; massed Pzkpfw IVs, protected against air attack by Sdkfz 251/17s, face approach of circa eleven Russian tanks in distance, with dust behind. Three man crew of reportedly knocked-out Russian tank rush pass camera. Skirted StuG III fires and wrecked T-34 and anti-tank gun suggest repulse of enemy. Germans continue counterattack, with advance by Waffen SS grenadiers and Sdkfz 184 Panzerjäger Tiger; flak opens fire against attacking Russian planes whose bombs explode near Sdkfz 184. Camera pan records Stormovik flying low past 3.7cm Flak; another passes overhead; ground explosion suggests attacker's fate and fuselage of Russian-marked plane burns. Nebelwerfers open fire with distinctive scream, some fired from tank platform. Smoke covers battlefield. II. German fighters intercept USAAF B-17s. At airfield identified only by Mephistopheles head emblem, groundcrew service and arm Focke-Wulf Fw 190s. Air warning station announces approach of strong enemy units, causing pilots on damp airfield to scramble to Fw 190s, climb into cockpit, rev engine and take off. Bf 109s, with and without extra fuel tanks, also take off. Camera-gun film records attacks on B-17s: rear attack causing port inner fuel tank to ignite, B-17 veers away, frontal attack with crew member baling out and rear attack igniting starboard outer fuel tank with crew member baling out without parachute opening (very close range).
  • Alternative Title: DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU NR 1943/48 - part [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: GWY 191
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 191
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943-11-17
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: UFA (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: armour, German - halftrack: Sdkfz 251/17 (object name) armour, German - halftrack: Sdkfz 251/9 (object name) armour, German - SPG: Sdkfz 184 (object name) aircraft, German - combat: Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (object name) aircraft, German - combat: Messerschmitt Bf 109 (object name) aircraft, United States - combat: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (object name) Russia & Krivoi Rog area (geography) night (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: German Title language: German Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 613 ft; Running time: 7 mins
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