Crusade in Europe
Season 1
Ep 17. Pursuit
- TV-PG
- August 25, 1949
- 20 min
The invasion of southern France opens the film, which documents the Allied campaign up the Rhone Valley and the swift advance of Patton's Third Army. Highlighted is the capture of German troops, the Allied thrusts against and in pursuit of the enemy all along the front, the massive airborne operation in the Northern sector, and the Allied advance to the western fringes of the famed Siegfried Line.