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Series 8: Audiovisual Materials

Box 35: Tape Recordings and Videocassettes, 1944-45, 1968

Folder 1: Ted Malone's Westinghous Overseas Broadcast, 1944

Audiocassette.

14 July 1944 in France (20 minutes).  Interview with Col. William B. Lovelady, CCB &Col. George Garton, CCB.

Folder 2: "The Treasury Salutes" program, 1944

Audiocassette.

Program on the December 21-25 action of Lt. Col. Samuel Hogan's unit in the Arbennes, the "Battle of Hogan's Men."

Folder 3: WHO Farm Review and Herb Plambeck Program, 1968

Tape recordings.

Farm Review, July 26, 1968.  Herb Plambeck Program, July 27, 1968.

Box 36: Tape Recordings and Videocassettes

Folder 1: Transcript and Maps to Accompany "First Episode:  75th Infantry Combat History", 1997

Item 1: American 1st Army Aachen to Rohr, [n.d.]

Videocassette.

From Koukl.

Item 2: Lafayette G. Pool Hall Dedication, 1993

Videocassette.

Fort Knox, KY July 1, 1993.  From Olin F. Brewster.

Item 3: Tank Platoon, 1991

Videocassette.

Presentation of all U.S. Army tanks and armored vehicles in use since World War II.

Item 4: William Barron Interview, 1992

Videocassette.

32 AR. Barron relates the events followed by his capture by Joachim Peiper's 1st SS on December 17, 1944. Saved from execution by his ability to drive a jeep, he eventually was placed in POW camp and liberated by Russian soldiers on 23 April, 1945.

Item 5: Third Armored Division Inactivation Ceremony, [n.d.]

Videocassette.

John Danay.

Item 6: Memorial Dedication, 1991

Videocassette.

United States Armed Forces Monument, November 1991, Arlington, VA.

Item 7: Revisiting the Ardennes, 1993

Videocassette.

Interview by British Major General Michael F. Reynolds of Robert Kauffman concerning Joachim Peiper and La Gleize action.

Item 8: Memorial Service Third Armored Division, 1992

Videocassette.

Omaha to John Danay.

Item 9: Schwarzkopf:  How the War was Won, 1991

Videocassette.

ABC News coverage of the General Norman Schwarzkopf briefing held in March, 1991, describing the Coalition victory in the Persian Gulf War.

Item 10: Gardens of Stone, 1987

Videocassette.

Veteran WWII officers and young recruits react to the Vietnam war; set in 1968 at Arlington National Cemetery and stars James Caan, James Earl Jones, Angelica Huston; movie is dedicated to the Third U.S. Infantry.

Item 11: Kauffman, "Behind the Headlines - Return to the Battle of the Bulge", 1990

Videocassette.

Item 12: Breakout and Pursuit, First Army - Aachen to Roer River, [n.d.]

Videocassette.

Item 13: Third Armored Division Interviews by Charles Corbin: Part 1, 1989-90

Videocassette.

Interviews Barr, Dugan, Hanneman, Brewster, and Pierro.

Item 14: Third Armored Division Interviews by Charles Corbin: Part 2, 1989-90

Videocassette.

Interviews Whitten, Brown, Worrell, Elissondo.

Item 15: Charles Corbin, "3rd Amored Division Museum, Frankfurt, West Germany", 1989

Videocassette.

Oct. 18, 1989.

Item 16: Charles Corbin, "Battle of the Bulge", 1990

Videocassette.

March 29. 1990.

Item 17: Charles Corbin, "3rd Armored Division Entrance into Germany 1944", [n.d.]

Videocassette.

Made especially for the Archives.

Item 18: Charles Corbin, "Battle of the Bulge", 1990

Videocassette.

Given to Haynes W. Dugan.

Item 19: Breakout and Pursuit First Army Aachen to Roer, [n.d.]

Videocassette.

Item 20: The Collapse of Cologne, Germany March 6, 1945, 1986

Videocassette.

Third Armored Division Perspective.  Tour of 3rd Div. at Frankford Germany.

Item 21: Scott Van Ness, [n.d.]

Videocassette.

Three separate films:  1. German Panther tank kill, Cologne, March, 1945.  2. Captured German film - Ardennes, Dec. 1944.  3. Air Power - Victory in Europe.

Item 22: Interviews with Service Company 33rd AR, 1998

Videocassette.

Members of Service Company 33rd AR recount their experiences in Europe.  By William Ruth.

Item 23: Hotton The Arbennes December 1944, 2000

Videocassette.

Jack Bonner, 5/23/00.

Item 24: Third Armored in Combat 1944, 1943-44

Videocassette.

William Cohen Film (Medical).  Rose awards medals in Normandy; Seine crossing at Melun; Chateau Thierry Monument; German POWs at Mons; capture of Liege; crossing German border; USO entertainment; Stolberg and Mausbach aid stations; Paris; England - Sutton Veny, Salisburg, Wells, Cheddar, Bath, and London.

Item 25: Third Armored Division Reunion Memorial Service and Banquet, 1993

Videocassette.

Indianapolis, IN.

Item 26: First Episode:  75th Infantry Division Combat History, 1997

Videocassette.

Moderated by Alfred S. Roxburgh.

(two tapes)

Item 27: The Gulf War and the Media, 1991

Audio Cassette.

Item 28: 50th Anniversary Celebration of Activation of Third Armored Division, 1991

Audio Cassette.

Held at Camp Beauregard, LA.  April 13, 1991, Haynes W. Dugan speaks for the Association.

Box 37: Tape Recordings and Videocassettes

Item 1: Rolling Thunder:  The True Story of the 3rd Armored Division, [n.d.]

Videocassette.

Item 2: 291st Engineers, [n.d.]

Videocassette.

Dave Pergrin to Haynes Dugan - C. Corbin.

Item 3: Third Armored Collapse of Cologne, [n.d.]

Videocassette. See also Box 36, Item 20.

Item 4: Rhine Crossing by 747th Seperate Tank Battalion, 1995

Videocassette.

Donated by Homer D. Wilkes.

Item 5: No Title or Markings, [n.d.]

Videocassette.

Item 6: Robert R. Thompson 3rd Armored Interview, 1993

Audio Cassette.

4/24/93.

Item 7: World War II Deaths - Sample CD; Zabella - Ziman, [n.d.]

CD.

Item 8: Tape 1, 1997

3M MBR Master Broadcast Videocassette U-matic.

Item 9: Cunningham:  Stock Music, 1997

3M MBR Master Broadcast Videocassette U-Matic.

Item 10: National Archives Transfer to Film, CS 3237 Reel 1, 1997

Item 11: National Archives Transfer to Film, CS 3227, 111 ADC 2730, 1986

Box 38: Original Canisters

Reel 1: Winter Olympics, 1936

First part of film broken off); entry parade in snow; Adolf Hitler opens games; ice hockey; Sonia Heinie figure skating; Shafer of Austria figure skating; Maxi Herber & Ernst Baier - skating pairs; Ballengrud of Norway speed skating; Mathiessen of Norway in 1500 meter speed skating; Swiss win first and second place in bobsledding; crashes on Bavarian turn; women's slalom; Chrisl Kranz; Kathe Grassinegger; Franz Pfnur in men's slalom; Suzzi Lanschnen; cross country skiing; Jalkanen of Finland; Willi Bogner of Germany; Larson of Sweden, first and Hagen of Norway, second; ski jumping - Birger Ruud first; Hitler closes games.

Reel 2: Conquest of Belgium and France, First Part, 1940, 1940

German narration and music - (first part broken off) officers; tanks; equipment; balloons; artillery; fortifications; trenches; ruined houses; Sedan; trucks; Verdun; bombing; aircraft; troops going through towns.

Reel 3: Conquest of Belgium and France, Second Part, 1940

City of Liege; pontoon bridge; horses; motorized column; Maas River crossing; Panzer attack; Stukas; French tanks; captured French soldiers going into camps; General von Reichenau.

Reel 4: U.S. Army film of 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 9th Infantry Division, First Army, 1945

V-2 on railroad car; German tank; U.S. tanks in German village; jeep; POWs; tank retriever; cleaning roads; German POWs; mine detection; autobahn; U.S. Army trucks; U.S. Armored column; swimming in river; oxen cutting grain; women and boys cutting grain; boys and tent; boys and hay; oxen and reaper.

Reel 5: Air fights, 1944

Luftwaffe training film for Focke Wolff 190 A-8 including about fifteen attack sequences on P-38 Lightning, B-24 Liberator and B-17 Boeing.

Reel 6: LTC Theodore M. Black J. Combat Report #76, 1945

Cologne, March 1945.

Reel 7: 16 mm Film positive copies of NARS Film 18 CS 3237-1, 1944

Third Armored Division, Tank Air Support, November, 1944.  Large explosions in town from dive-bombing and strafing, dense smoke, anti-aircraft crew at gun, plane formation dive bombing, front lines shooting armored vehicles, infantrymen crouching, shelling, very heavy mortar fire.  Ruined German town, demolished buildings, explosions, dense smoke.  Dive bombers circling target and plane dive bombing on hill in wooded area.  Group infantrymen looking through binoculars, taking notes, tanks passing camera, battery rocket guns firing leaving heavy smoke columns, listening to air-ground communication over  radio, and tanks.  Col. Lovelady, CO talking to another officer at advanced command post, tanks go into action past camera across fields, camouflaged tank, tanks going over hill into deep quarry, men firing mortars, tanks opening up barrage, tank crew member climbing out of tank turret appears to be stunned, other tank crew members helping stunned man, officer looking through binoculars, and GI standing by.

Reel 8: 16mm Film positive copies of NARS Film ADC 2730, 1944

Third Armored Division, Rocket Barrage and Attack Push Off; Mausbach, Germany, 15 November 1944.  Soldiers of 18th Field Artillery Battalion load multiple rocket launchers; line of launchers; control set and firing device; row of launchers is fired.  Tanks and other vehicles move along skyline toward Mausbach.  Photographed from inside pillbox, armored vehicles move along edge of terrain, German shells burst near convoy.  Armored cars, light tanks, medium tanks and armored vehicles on dirt road outside of city.

Reel 9: General Doyle O. Hickey and the Third Armored Spearhead Division, 1997

July 10, 1997.

Box 38a: Reels

Reel 2: 16mm reels.

Reel 3: 16mm reels.

Reel 4: 16mm reels.

Reel 5: 16mm reels.

Reel 6: 16mm reels.

Reel 7: 16mm reels.

Reel 8: 16mm reels.