Holland (Allied Campaign to Clear Scheldt Estuary)

Series

Series Name

War Pictorial News

Issue

Issue No.

187

Date Released

3 Dec 1944

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Holland (Allied Campaign to Clear Scheldt Estuary)
2. 2Poland
3. 3Churchill in Russia

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

Men and equipment embark for landings on the Eighth Beveland and Walchern Islands. British and Canadian troops make amphibious landings and capture the port of Flushing. Germans finally surrender, but Allied casualties are heavy; the wounded are tended. Allied aircraft fire at Luftwaffe. British soldiers enter a house and emerge with German prisoners; troops rescue Dutch family trapped in a flaming house. US NATIONAL ARCHIVE ENTRY: 10 min, sd, B&W, 35mm British troops descend ships’ ladders into barges; the barges land in the Scheldt Islands; troops run ashore and through a small town. Germans surrender. Wounded are treated and loaded onto trucks. Field guns are fired. Tanks advance. Houses are searched; Nazis emerge and surrender. A Dutch woman is removed from a burning house. Record Group 208 Accession 2376

Keywords

Ships and boats; Vehicles; Weapons; Aviation; Fires; Prisoners of war; Casualties; Military

Credits:

Commentator

Rex Keating

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Film Archive

Name

Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

Email

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Notes

The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.

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