Fox Toenende Wochenschau №22 (1940)

Newsreel №62935, 2 parts, Duration: 0:19:55 B/W
Studio Foks

Reel №1

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Military operations in Norway.

A ship is in a fjord.

Blowing up bridges and power lines.

German troops dig in in the snow.

Firing.

Air Force units provide support to ground troops.

Paratroopers are dropped.

Distribution of ammunition.

Operations of the German Air Force in Belgium.

Stukas in the air.

Craters on the ground, a bombed-out airfield, burnt-out planes, hangars.

A column of enemy equipment under the plane.

Bombing.

Flying low along the road.

Broken and abandoned equipment on the roads, in the field.

Tanks, broken trucks.

Killed, ruins, giant craters.

Antwerp from the air.

Oil tanks on fire.

Fortress on the island is bombed.

Monument to those killed in World War I

Keywords

World War 2, Norway, Navy, Troops, BBC, Landing party, World War 2, Belgium, BBC, Tanks, Troops

Reel №2

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Military operations in Belgium.

The German vanguard is fighting in the vicinity of Antwerp.

A tank is knocked out by an anti-tank gun.

German soldiers are slowly advancing.

Fighting in the port.

German guns are shelling the city.

Forcing the river in boats.

A motorcycle platoon.

A ferry with German soldiers.

A motorized column is crossing.

Infantrymen on bicycles.

Oil is burning in the tanks.

The first order of the German commandant is posted.

Soldiers are resting after the fighting: they are sleeping right on the sidewalk.

Anti-aircraft guns are on the lawn, and the city cathedral is in the background.

Fighting for Leuven.

Artillery fire begins on the city.

Tanks and infantry go on the offensive.

A wrecked transporter, dead Frenchmen.

Further advance of the German troops.

Motorized infantry in the streets.

Street fighting.

German soldiers are making their way through the ruins.

Machine gun fire.

Barricades.

German soldiers making their way.

Town Hall.

The fallen "lion" - the symbol of the city - on the pavement.

Hanging out the fascist flag.

Columns of equipment, cavalry, artillery convoys are moving.

The attack on Brussels.

Street fighting on the outskirts of the city.

Installing barbed wire and mines.

Sappers demining.

Bicycle infantry.

Anti-aircraft guns.

Brussels from an airplane.

Below - marching German columns.

Residents on the streets of the city

Keywords

World War 2, Belgium, Troops, Tanks, Fire, Artillery, Cavalry, Sappers, BBC

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