U.S. Army Air Forces C-47s towing gliders over Holland during World War II. Gliders are seen maneuvering after being released from the C-47 tow planes. A glider coasts down a field and makes a successful landing. Trees in the background. Supplies are dropped by parachutes. U.S. troops occupy the field. A CG-4A glider makes a landing in a field where other gliders are already parked. A damaged glider makes a safe landing past other gliders, then brakes hard as approaches the end of the landing area.
U.S. soldiers in Holland during World War 2. Soldiers aboard a jeep passing on a street. Trees in the area. 376th Field Unit hospital on the outskirts of Nijmegen. Two U.S. soldiers carry a tank of blood into the building. American soldiers standing among wounded German prisoners of war lying on litters outside the building and mingling with ambulatory wounded German soldiers in a garden. Closups of several German wounded on stretchers. Local civilians including a nurse in white, helping the wounded. Red Cross corpsman making out identification tags for wounded. Ambulatory wounded standing and walking about in front of the building. U.S. wounded soldiers being transported by jeep and removed from field ambulances. One being carried by a single soldier, into a building and others following on litters. (Note: The gentleman in white coat, at TC: 00:56 to 00:59, has been identified, by his son, as J. Th. van der Schoot, then 35 years old, who worked at the Canisius hospital in Nijmegen, and lived across the street from the 376th Field Unit hospital at Houtlaan nr.19, Nijmegen.)
U.S. soldiers in Holland during World War II. Rubbled buildings in an area. People walking on a street with rubble everywhere. An unstable building falls apart in the distance, sending a cloud of dust upward. Soldiers standing and talking. A U.S. soldier kneels beside a hastily dug grave. 376th Field Unit hospital on the outskirts of Nijmegen. Several patients standing outside the building. Wounded soldiers are brought inside the building. The patients receive food. They eat food outside the building as nurses assist them.
U.S. aircraft in flight over Holland during World War II. A glider in flight over a field. The glider descends. Some soldiers standing nearby. Several gliders coast overhead in search of landing spots. Paratroopers walking on the field.
U.S. soldiers in St. Geertruid, Holland during World War II. A soldier comes out of a snow covered foxhole. He talks to another soldier. A group of soldiers huddles around a fire to keep warm. Hands and feet of the soldiers. A soldier's feet in mud. A soldier digs a foxhole with a shovel.
U.S. Army General Dwight David Eisenhower meets dignitaries in Brussels, Belgium during World War II. He meets Prince Charles and the Prime Minister of Belgium and other officials. The officials standing on the steps of a building. Eisenhower shaking hands with them.
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