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1st Allied Airborne Army troops land in Germany during Operation Varsity in World War II.

The successful airborne crossing of the Rhine river by the 1st Allied Airborne troops during World War II. Aircraft lined up at an airfield. British 6th Airborne Division gliders, British Halifax, Sterling bombers and U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 and C-46 aircraft take off from an airfield in the European Theater. British 6th Airborne Division troops in the field. Airborne troops are briefed. Soldiers synchronize their watches. Soldiers put on equipment as they prepare to take off. Airborne troops board an aircraft. Personnel at the control tower order aircraft to take off. Aircraft and gliders take off. An aircraft taxis for take off and crashes. Aircraft in flight. Troops aboard an airborne aircraft. Allied paratrooper soldiers jump and descend. Aircraft in flight as they drop bombs. Explosions occur. Soldiers fire rifles. Soldiers enter a village and take German prisoners.

Date: 1945, March 24
Duration: 6 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022048
1st Allied Airborne Army troops take off from a field in the European Theater during Operation Varsity of World War II.

A film titled 'First Allied Airborne Army in Operation Varsity, 24 March 1945' about the successful airborne crossing of the Rhine river by the 1st Allied Airborne troops during World War II. Aerial views of aircraft and gliders on ground. U.S. Army Air Forces C-46, C-47 aircraft and CG-4 gliders on a field. British Halifax and Sterling bombers. Troops of the U.S. 17th Airborne Division near the aircraft. Soldiers load equipment into gliders and aircraft. Jeeps, vehicles and other equipment loaded onto gliders. Aircraft lined up on a field. Troops don gear and board the glider and aircraft. Propellers turn as aircraft prepare to take off. Aircraft tow gliders as they take off. Gliders and aircraft in flight.

Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022047
Allied Airborne Operation Market Garden during World War II

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.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056361
Montage of scenes related to role of 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and 9th Troop Carrier Command before D-day, World War II

U.S. soldiers wade ashore at Omaha Fox Green Beach on D-Day, from landing craft of USS Samuel Chase (APA 25). during the Invasion of France. An idyllic English village on June 5, 1944. C-47 aircraft towing a Waco CG-4 glider over shelters made of wooden shipping containers. "Shanty Town" written atop one tall structure. Glider being pulled out a shipping container. Soldiers moving into empty shipping container. Glimpse of their homemade barrack. soldiers eating a meal inside a shipping container shelter. Soldiers at barber shop. German defenses of the Atlantic Wall on the French coast. German gun crews drilling. German rail gun. Animated map of German fortifications of the Atlantic Wall. Allied officers, including U.S. Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, Commander, 9th Air Force and British Air Marshal Arthur Coningham, Commander, 2nd Tactical Air Force, in D-day planning. Airborne troops board buses and arrive at restricted airfields. Troops playing in jazz band; exercising on field; and playing volleyball. Paratroopers reading mail. Airmen painting invasion stripes for D-day on C-47 aircraft. French francs issued to paratroopers. Troopers sharpen knives and bayonets. Chaplains conduct religious services. General Dwight D. Eisenhower visiting 101st Airborne troopers. Airborne Pathfinders. Paratroopers march to C-47s, and don parachutes. Troopers of the 101st Airborne,506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Headquarters Company Demolition Section ("Filthy 13") in their Mohawk Indian haircuts. Clarence Ware puts war paint on Charles Plaudo, using still-wet paint from their C-47's D-day stripes. Heavily laden paratrooper help one another board airplanes. Pathfinder C-47s taking off at dusk, followed by all others, on June 5, 1944. formations of C-47s. Closeup of several planes. Paratroopers exiting C-47s. Formation of towed gliders. Gliders landing in field. Troops from gliders engaging in fire fights. Naval gun barrage.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 10 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045254
General Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill visit the 101st Airborne Division in England during World War II

While visiting the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, at RAF Welford in Berkshire, England, in World War 2, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Eisenhower, inspect the inside of a British Horsa glider. Eisenhower steps down from the cabin as Brigadier General Maxwell Taylor, Commander of the 101st, assists Prime Minister Churchill down the steps. Churchill then peers into the open back of a U.S. CG-4A glider. He stops to look at paratrooper rations displayed on a table, as Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe explains them. Churchill and Eisenhower then review formation of paratroopers, accompanied by Brigadier Maxwell Taylor, and followed by Brigadier General Don F. Pratt. They walk among the troopers, one of whom is a British paratrooper. The Generals salute as they pass the unit colors. Further on they pass a color guard and the Generals salute, as Churchill removes his hat. Churchill is seen at a microphone. Change of scene shows C-47s flying overhead with paratroopers descending and spectators watching them. another view of Churchill and Eisenhower entering Dodge 3/4-ton T214 vehicle, after the paratroop drop, and driving among troops seen in combat positions on the field.

Date: 1944, March 23
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076991
Paratroopers walk to gliders and transport aircraft at RAF Ramsbury (WW2)

Mechanic turns the propeller blade of an aircraft. A Douglas C-47 Skytrain “DONNA”. Paratroopers walk two abreast in formation to gliders and board transport planes at British base RAF Ramsbury airfield in Wiltshire, England during World War II, bound for the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080769