(18 Dec 1944) 111 ADC 2949 WaffenSS and Fallschirmjager troops in action on 18th December 1944, the third day of Hitler's Ardennes offensive on 6. SS Panzer Armee's front on the northern shoulder of the Bulge:
Shots laid on for the camera showing SSGrenadiers from Kampfgruppe Hansen (I/SSPanzerGrenadierRegiment1), wearing mottle camouflage uniforms, and thick winter greatcoats, advancing past burning and disabled M3 halftracks, M8 armoured cars, jeeps, M5 Stuart light tanks and 3inch antitank guns from Task Force Mayes (14th US Cavalry Group) on the road between Recht and Poteau near St Vith, sharing captured American cigarettes with men from 3. Fallschirmjager Division a Jagdpanzer IV selfpropelled gun armed with the long 7.5cm L/70 cannon is seen bypassing the wrecked US column and heading acrosscountry.
10:13:14
Shots showing two Panzer 38 (t) 15cm sIG 33 selfpropelled guns from SSPz.Gren.Regt.1 bombarding US positions from a field outside Recht and two young radio operators reporting the results of the bombardment to the NCO in charge of the two guns.
10:13:52
Shots at the Kaiserbaracke road junction on the N23 road between St Vith and Malmedy showing old German road signs pointing to Malmedy and St Vith, a Steyr troopcarrier turning right towards Recht, a massive Konigstiger (King Tiger) from SSSchwererPanzerRegiment501 rolling up at the crossroads carrying paratroopers from 3. Fallschirmjager Division en route to Stavelot in the Ambleve valley. a Sd Kfz 251 halftrack APC turning right for Recht, two junior officers from SSPanzerAufklarungsAbteilung1 strolling past several Sd Kfz 250 halftrack recce, cars and conferring over a map on the bonnet of their Schwimmwagen amphibious recce. car, enjoying captured cigars with their driver, the heavilyarmed paratroopers on the Konigstiger relaxing, smoking cigarettes
10:16:00
Shots showing SSSturmbannfuhrer Knittel, CO of Kampfgruppe Knittel (SSPz.Aufkl.Abt.1), conferring over a map with SSObersturmfuhrer Goltz, commander of his HQ company, in the hamlet of La VaulxRichard outside Stavelot, WaffenSS troops riding in a Steyr truck and a VW Kubelwagen passing mobile 3.7cm flak detachments on 8t semitracks and an overrun American 3inch antitank gun near a chapel at Merlscheid near Losheim.
10:16:41
Shots for the benefit of the Deutsche Wochenschau film editor showing young WaffenSS grenadiers wearing thick winter coats advancing past the wrecked and abandoned Task Force Mayes column between Recht and Poteau and shots of M3 halftracks on fire.


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