Summary: "Allies regain initiative in the Ardennes."
Description: Latest news that Allied counterattack is going well is backed up by film of soldiers and Sherman tanks of the US First Army spearheading the attack. Failure of von Rundstedt's offensive is attributed in part to Allied air power of Bomber Command and 2nd Tactical Air Force, illustrated by Mitchells of 180 Squadron in flight and over snowy fields bombing enemy concentrations and by a daylight raid by Lancasters against the marshalling yards of Mönchengladbach. Item also shows the devastation of Malmédy and announces the recapture of Bastogne (Dakotas parachuting supplies). Some of Colonel Hogan's four hundred men who escaped from the besieged town are seen with their faces still blackened by camouflage. Military ambulance passes along snow-covered country road.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:RMY 23
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945-01-08
Production Country: GB
Production Details: British Paramount News (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 180 (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, 2nd Tactical Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Avro Lancaster (object name)
aircraft, United States - combat: North American B-25 Mitchell & [British] (object name)
aircraft, United States - transport: Douglas C-47 Dakota (object name)
combat, British - air raid (object name)
combat, United States - air raid (object name)
destruction, French military - area: bomb (object name)
Malmédy, Liège, Belgium (geography)
Bastogne, Luxemburg, Belgium (geography)
Germany & Monchen-Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 258 ft; Running time: 3 mins
