BREST BATTLE STREETS

Infantrymen of the 23rd Regiment, 2nd Division are entering the outskirts of the city of Brest. A Company are fighting in the St Marc area reducing enemy strongholds including the Guelmeur Fort. Moving along the main railway line, they capture Kerstear Castle overlooking the dockyards and the railway station.

Source: 1944 AMERICANS IN BRITTANY - THE BATTLE FOR BREST by Jonathan Gawne (Histoire & Collections).

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• ww2
• newsreels
• brest
• german
• POW
• battle
• 1944
• St
• Marc
• Kertear
• Castle
• 23rd

[Susie42]

Thank you for your movies. If only people would remember how real it really was and will be again if we forget. History always repeats its self, saddly.

[macoulin]

it got worse after, when they had to go through the hedgerows...

[SWIZZkettcar]

thx for upping.

Im making a Map for the BF2-Modifikation Forgotten Hope 2, with the Name: Battle of Brest. Hard Impressions, and the longer i work on i see so many Pictures of this great old Town and im sad about the Destruction of this hole City.

greetings from bavaria

[krabbfiskarnful]

The Germans had their best airborn troops defending Brest.

[Blutch29]

Thanks for all your movies you put online.

It is the best testimony on our history. I am from Brest, it is so hard to imagine the hard fights in the town.

[flyboyfx]

Honor your veterans