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Tanks and motorcycles cross a pontoon bridge

The gun and turret of a tank roll past with soldiers beside it; the track and road wheels of a tank roll onto a bridge; a line of motorcycles with sidecars, soldiers aboard, crosses a long pontoon bridge over a broad river. German newsreel footage; according to the source the crossing of the Meuse, May 1940. After the crossing of 13 May German engineers bridged the river near Sedan, and the armoured divisions broke through towards the Channel coast.

Period: May 1940
Credit: US National ArchivesPublic Domain · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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The German crossing of the Meuse at Sedan, May 1940 · Divide and Conquer: Norway, the Low Countries and France

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Clip name: HFE025617
Length: 0' 10"
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames per Second: 24 fps
Chroma Subsampling: yuv422p10le
Resolution: 1920 × 1080
Format: MOV
File Size: 225,570,548 bytes

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