The story
Streetcombats and combats in the fields
Units: 30th Infantry Division / 119th Infantry Regiment
Date: 10-August-44 locations: Perriers-en-Beauficel / Saint-Michel-de-Montjoie / Mortain / handle characters: (unknown)
Themes: artillery / Bocage / corpse / injured / Medic / Crash plane / Combat
Duration: 4:52 min Cameraman: (unknown)
Last part strangely enough: Lt. Gen. Joe Stillwell lands at SEAC airfield in Ceylon, where he meets BG Frank Merrill, during World War II
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