France: Americans Enter Rome, Italy; Surrender in Brest, France - ADC-2566
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AMERICANS ENTER ROME, ITALY
5 June 1944 (0-858)
VS, Italian people cheer US soldiers as they enter streets of city.
Excellent scenes, Gen Mark W Clark in jeep rides thru streets of Rome
and is greeted by cheering civilians.
Various MSs, CUs, children and adults destroy Facist signs on bldg.
vs, US armored vehicles and trucks loaded with US troops pass thru various
sections of city.
INV 1982, SURRENDER OF GERMAN GEN RAMCKE,
Brest, France;
Sept 44 (M-667)
Seq: Gen Ramcke accompanied by two German officers and an Irish setter
surrenders to Maj Gen Troy H Middleton, CG VIII Corps.