9 Infantry Division (USA) in Rânes / Beauvain / Orne

Duration: 8:18 min

Cameraman: Rosenmann / Newman

Units: 9th Infantry Division (USA)

Date: 16-August-44

Locations: Rânes / Beauvain / Orne

Characters: Eddy

Themes: ruin / flag / Abbé / corpse / flower / prisoner / fraternization / Calvados

Rânes (Orne) - 15 or August 16, 1944 -

Cameraman Leon Rosenmann

Soldiers of the Third Armored Division movements of men and vehicles houses destroyed and set on fire in the village of Rânes: shops of the merchant logs, furniture and Charles Sérée (hairdresser) men who pick up newspapers, a woman observed fire, destroyed houses, shop of Charles Sérée road la Ferté-Macé .

The Park of the castle walls.

German canon deletions in the village two women in the village

German signs destroyed House

American soldiers and inhabitants, char happening in the foreground char happening in the town

Charles Sérée and three other men collect business clap Rosenmann Unit "Kay" 1

Ranes entry of vehicles and soldiers in the village road to Carrouges .

Signpost "Ranes' destruction in the village and fire cat in the rubble of houses destroyed and burnt the Church and the church square.

Two people the old town hall of Abbé Lévesque, parish priest of Rânes, carries a flag french front Castle accompanied by her child's choir with a bandage over the head (M. Linh) Lucien Bouchard and four other men collect the dead courtyard Chauvin (August 14 bombardment) dog in the rubble clap Rosenmann 2"Kay"internal Ranes of the Church; character not identified