Allied Forces Meet on Elbe - 300116X | Footage Farm

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(dark afternoon?) USSR / Russian & American officers & men on river bank talking, smoking & drinking.
00:57 3 USSR soldiers lying on river bank w/ machine guns at ready; small raft in distance crossing river. 00:01:08 CU One soldier fires MG.
01:13 Russian troops w/ raised drinks greets arriving US soldiers getting out of rubber raft on swift flowing Elbe river; meeting, kissing & embracing. LS & MS posing. Trading hats.
03:01 Black / slug.
03:34 German soldiers using boats & rafts cross river to US side aka towards camera.
04:06 LS barges crossing or up river l. to r.
04:29 Russian soldiers standing waving at camera.
04:43 End & next slate.
WW2 Infantry Celebration;
[WWII - 1945, Germany: Surrender of Germans, Schwerin 03May45]
04:46 Slate 03May45 Sgt. H.R. Thompson, camera.
04:48 German soldiers on foot, in trucks & horse drawn wagons thru town fleeing Russians (?). Civilians watching, walking; refugees & wagons, bicycles on cobblestones.
05:51 Slate: Same, Unit 1211 Roll 2.
05:53 Tractor pulling multiple wagons w/ people pushing bicycles & walking behind.
06:13 Truck pulling multiple trailers loaded w/ German troops.
06:31 LS & MS Refugees & bags out of trucks.
06:53 Slate: Same, Roll 3.
06:55 Long column of refugees, German medics / soldiers w/ arm bands. walking & riding in farm carts passing.
07:56 Slate: Same. Roll 4.
08:00 Marching German officers / POWs / prisoners leading soldiers past in MCUs.
09:01 Slate: Same. Roll 5. Civilians roll overloaded car back; hooked to team of horses & pulled past. POWs walking.