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Officer reads a message to Operation Market Garden paratroopers at British base RAF Ramsbury (WW2)

US Army officer reads message to a group of American soldiers at RAF Ramsbury airfield in Wiltshire, England during World War II. Closeup views of individual faces of some of the soldiers listening as the officer reads to them. A 1st sergeant of the 101st Airborne Division reads a message from a letter to paratroopers. The troops turn and begin to march towards the parked transport aircraft in the background, heading for the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080770
C-47 transport aircraft take off one by one for Netherlands; WACO glider taxiing at RAF Ramsbury (WW2)

U.S. Army Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport planes take off one by one from RAF Ramsbury airfield in Wiltshire, England during World War II, heading for the Netherlands in Operation Market Garden. A Waco CG-4 Hadrian military glider taxiing, following one of the transport planes at the British airfield. C-47 Skytrain transport plane takes off from the airfield, followed by the WACO CG-4 glider.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080771
U.S. Army C-47 transport plane warms up engines; a British soldier puts on life vest (WW2)

U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division paratroopers at Ramsbury airfield board transport planes bound for Holland, Netherlands during Operation Market Garden of World War II. They carry supplies as they step on landing strip covered in Marston Mats. Wings of the transport planes. C-47 Skytrain transport plane starts and warms up engine. A British paratrooper wearing a beret puts on his life vest and inspects his Sten MK II submachine gun. A young soldier writes a letter or takes notes.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080772
War correspondents approach the docks on the South England coast, preparing for D-Day invasion in World War II

War correspondents covering World War 2, prepare for the D-Day Invasion. U.S. soldiers in military jeeps, ready to be boarded onto Landing Crafts, approach the dock area in South England. Soldiers on the road. Bars on the jeep bumpers designed to cut wires put up across the roads by Germans. A war correspondent sits with baggage on the road. A dog nearby. An American and a British soldier man a Control Post. They check a correspondent's baggage and bedding. Wes Hanes seated on the baggage. Pete Carroll of Boston, photographer for the Associated Press, smokes a cigarette. Behind him is a sign for the Salmon Leap Public House. They eat K-rations. Hanes on the riverside with a small castle in the background seen through the arch under the bridge. Pete Carroll stepping on stones near the river bank after washing his hands in the river.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020896
U.S. forces loading on ships in England for the invasion of Normandy in World War II

A man with a pair of binoculars observes something in background while on board a United States ship in Portland Head, England. A half track vehicle being loaded on a landing barge. Soldiers and sailors on deck of a landing barge. Three American soldiers clean weapons aboard a landing craft at the pier. Truck is raised to the deck by elevator. M4 High speed tractor with soldiers atop pulls a 90mm Anti-aircraft gun on the dock and boards the landing ship, tank. Sailors and others are seen seated at the bow of the vessel.

Date: 1944, June 2
Duration: 4 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038189
American troops in Falmouth England before D-Day during World War II.

U.S. troops in England during World War 2. American soldier refuels a military truck from a jerry can. . Soldiers loaded in truck. American soldiers loaded in United States Army trucks traveling in a convoy. Soldiers proceed on foot as they move past buildings in Falmouth moor. Two school children watch them. One GI has a small dog on a rope leash. Soldiers lined up with British shops in the background. One shows sign "OXO" in window (OXO stock cubes are popular English food product.) Red Cross volunteers serve doughnuts and candy bars to soldiers.

Date: 1944
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051443