Opening scene shows some Allied gliders being towed over Holland during the joint American and British airborne Operation Market Garden. View from the air of wide areas flooded by the Germans to thwart Allied forces. Formations of American C-47 aircraft dropping paratroopers. Sky filled with paratroop chutes descending near Arnheim. Fairly closeup views of some troopers suspended under their parachutes. View from ground of troopers landing and running forward with weapons at the ready. Paratroopers landing near a haystack.Some make rough landings. Forward view from an American Waco CG-4A glider of the C-47 ahead, towing it. View from A C-47 of towed Waco glider behind it. View from the ground of gliders landing. One flips over, upside down. Troopers seen leaving a Waco glider and assembling on the ground. One glider noses over but falls back again. A tow plane is shot down and crashes in a huge explosion. Closeup of the burning wreckage. Different view of the crash site near some houses, with heavy plumes of dark smoke rising. Paratroopers advancing across a field. Local civilians gathered around an empty glider, examining it. Two paratroopers with a map asking two Dutch women for directions. The women each point in different directions. Paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division assembling. The Screaming Eagle logos visible on their shoulders.
Allied forces free the civilians from Nazi occupation in Holland, during World War II. British infantrymen of the 9th Army and tanks advance in Holland and defeated German forces retreat. British artillery and tanks fire at the Nazis during a battle. Allied soldiers rescue civilians from the rubble of houses destroyed during battle. British tanks and flamethrowers attack German Army units. British Army and tanks advance on rubbled streets of a town in Holland.
U.S Army in Operation Market Garden. Two men in glider cockpit during flight over Holland during World War II. Waco CG-4A gliders in flight in poor visibility.
Paratroopers advance over field in Holland during World War II. The soldiers inspect a crashed glider. They find a man trapped in the glider. The trapped man seemed almost unconscious. One of the soldiers use an ax to hack away at the frame to free the man. One of the soldiers hold the man of the trapped man. The man attempts to crawl out of the crashed glider.
A United States flag on a uniform sleeve. United States Army gliders in airfield in Holland during World War II. A group of gliders enter a holding pattern before approaching and landing. A glider lands, tilts up on its nose and falls back.
A United States Waco CG-4A glider lands at an airfield in Holland during World War II. A pair of gliders land at the same time. Smoke rises from the ground. A glider approaches and lands from a distance. A glider lands, tilts up on its nose and falls back.