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Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower visit 101st Airborne at Welford airfield, Berkshire, England (WW2)
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower meets Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor and inspect the United States 101st Airborne Division in England during World War II. A staff car with the British and American flags arrives on the Welford airfield, Berkshire, England. General Dwight D Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill alight from the staff car after an attendant opens the car door. Prime Minister Churchill and General Eisenhower meets with military officers as they walk in the airfield. Prime Minister Churchill salutes and shake hands with Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor. A band plays while Prime Minister Churchill and General Eisenhower review the 101st Airborne Division troops with its Commander, Brigadier General Taylor. Two soldiers hold flags. Prime Minister Churchill, Generals Eisenhower and Taylor review the troops by walking amongst them. General Eisenhower uses binoculars to watch paratroopers jumping from C-47 planes during a mass demonstration. Hundreds of paratroopers with parachutes fall to the airfield. Prime Minister Churchill and General Eisenhower get in a car. Army vehicles driving away.
German troops capture Allied pilots and parachutists in Germany during WWII
Allied troops and equipment being captured by German soldiers in Europe during World War II. Aerial view of aircraft parked on a field. Troops towing a bomber. Soldiers standing nearby. Men loading artillery and other equipment into airplanes. A British bomber taking off from an airfield. Groups of Allied bombers in flight. Soldiers riding a motorcycle with sidecar. A soldier slips and fall out of the motorcycle. German troops firing artillery into enemy position. Wreckage of a crashed bomber on the ground. Wreckage of more British bombers and fighters. Interior of a crashed British bomber. German troops recover a Jeep from the wreckage. German soldiers drive a seized Jeep. German Abwehr soldiers wearing leaves for camouflage. Soldiers standing nearby. Some of the soldiers aboard a camouflaged tank advancing on the battlefield. A German tank passes by an Allied plane wing wreckage hanging from a tree. A parachute hanging from a tree. Captured Allied pilots (of the 1st Canadian Parachute Regiment) raise their hands as they’re led away. German troops escort Allied prisoners of war. Captured Allied soldiers show a map to German officer. The sleeve patch of a captured Canadian soldier reads: '1st Canadian Parachute Regiment'. An insignia of the same. A captured pilot with eye bandage. Captured Allied troops are led out of a building. Soldiers aboard tanks advancing on a battlefield. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment. A wrecked airplane on a field. Soldiers seated near a building. Insignias on the uniforms of the soldiers, including the United States 101st Airborne Division, 82nd Airborne Division, and the Para/Glider Infantry cap patch (patch with white glider and parachute on dark blue with red circle).
German air operations in occupied France during World War II
German airmen mechanics perform maintenance inspections on a Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft in occupied France, during World War 2. They rearm it with machine gun ammunition and install a gun camera. One ground crewman paints a tally mark, for a mission, on the aircraft tail. A German flier feeds a pet bear, while others look on. Another pilot plays with two pet dogs, while being photographed by a movie camera (cameraman seen only by his shadow). German soldier reports the sighting by telephone. German pilot dons life vest and climbs into the cockpit of his Bf-109. Several Bf-109s take off. Gun camera view from German fighter aircraft firing from headon and below, at a British Spitfire aircraft. German pilots on the ground look up as two British Spitfire aircraft buzz low over nearby buildings. Group of German airmen gather to watch dogfights between German and British aircraft. Closeup of several looking up and pointing. Gun camera footage of a Spitfire taking headon fire from below and another being shot at from rear and above. A ball of black smoke is seen from an aircraft that has been hit by gunfire. Closeup of German Bf-109 in flight. German Gun camera view of a Spitfire being being hit from behind. Glimpse of two aircraft in close combat followed by one crashing and exploding on the ground. Gun camera view from German aircraft attacking a British Lysander aircraft. Extreme closeup of German ace Adolf Galland in cockpit of his airborne Bf-109. A British Spitfire aircraft sitting where it crash landed in shallow water. Fighter aircraft flying high above in echelon formation. A BF-109 buzzing low over the camera, followed by one taxiing after landing. View of Adolf Galland, stepping from cockpit of his Bf-109, and walking back to base operations along with other pilots who greet him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers the news about victory of Allies over Normandy to the French people in France.
Activities of Allied troops during the invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. A swastika sign on an animated map shows German occupied area in France and as a target for Allied troops to invade. American, Canadian and British troops prepare for the invasion. French soldiers of democracy board boats and leave the shore of England. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and South African Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts wish luck to Allied troops boarding a landing craft. A map shows Allied landing on Normandy coast. Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers the news about the victory of Allies over Normandy which is broadcast to the French people. A radio operator and towers shown. French people listen to Eisenhower's speech. A man gives the news of Normandy invasion by Allied troops on a microphone. People applaud. Streets in London. People of London read newspapers stating 'Allied invaded in France'. Aircraft on the ground. Airborne paratroops board the aircraft. A general talks to the troops during the airborne operation. The aircraft in flight. Ships underway at sea. The navy and the air force blast Normandy shore positions.
Red Devil paratroopers of British 1st Airborne Division, drop into Holland to outflank the German Siegfried Line in World War II
At start, the film shows a formation of American C-47 transport aircraft with paratroopers starting to jump from them during World War 2. Viewed moments later from the ground, the sky is filled with trooper' open chutes, descending. An animated map shows Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany. It shows location of the Allied paratroopers drop in Holland, intended to spearhead a drive around the Main River into Germany. The map then shows German forces encircling the paratroopers and the Second British Army heading North to the rescue. Next, a huge number of American Soldiers are seen assembled out of doors in England. Closeup of General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking in a microphone to the assembly. Closeups of soldiers including some who are American Army Air Corps pilots, and other aircrew members, mostly Lieutenants. Senior Paratrooper officers stand at attention in front of formation of troopers with American flag beside them.(Narrator says these were the men who made up the "lost division," heroes who fought alone for seven terrible days.) General Eisenhower makes his way between close ranks of the paratroopers. He is followed by Brigadier General and a Colonel. Lieutenant General Lewis H Bereton also makes his way through the ranks. Scene shifts to a base in England where many British Airspeed AS.51 Horsa gliders are seen with paratroopers heading across the airfield to board. American C-47 aircraft are seen in the background. All aircraft are painted with D-Day stripes. Several British and American paratroop officers review a map together. At a tent camp, A military policeman and two U.S. paratroopers checking their weapons and ammunition. Some troopers sharpen their knives. A trooper is issued Dutch and German money. A British and and American trooper in camouflaged helmets, pose before a glider with a huge British roundel on its side. British paratroopers boarding a Horsa glider, named "Gertie." A Horsa glider moving as it is towed by a British Whitley twin-engine bomber. View from side of runway as the bomber takes off with its towed glider behind. (Narrator comments: "Destination, Holland.") Formations of tow planes and gliders in flight. View of pilot in cockpit of a Whitley bomber. Formations of fighter aircraft in flight overhead. View from inside an aircraft as paratroopers exit through a side door. Sky filled with paratroopers in chutes descending. (Note: This Allied thrust into Holland to launch a drive around the German Siegfried Line was known as the Allied joint American-British "Operation Market Garden," which took place 17 to 25 September 1944, the 7 days referred to by the film Narrator. )
Allied forces counter attack following German offensive on December 18, 1944 (Battle of the Bulge).
Film begins showing a sign in English pointing to the Tower Room of the Malmedy Protestant Church. Views of burning buildings from German counteroffensive (The Battle of the Bulge) begun December 18, 1944 during World War 2. Fire fighter pouring water from a hose. A substantial church building in background. Fire fighters directing stream of water upward onto side of a burning building. Closeup of fire fighter directing stream of water. Ice from fire fighting efforts. Change of scene to British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery exiting a building with U.S. Major General Matthew Ridgway, Commanding General XVIII Airborne Corps. They greet some British officers. Closeup of Montgomery and Ridgway walking together. A tank and driver silhouetted against light sky. Allied troops riding on a Stuart Light Tank. Armor moving along a rural road. Snow on the ground. British infantry walking in the snow and then marching along a cleared road. Trucks and armored vehicles in the background.Allied troops and vehicles passing substantial buildings, as they advance. Damaged buildings near a rail line. Allied forces advancing through rural area with many trees in background. Animated map showing the Allied push-back against the German offensive, showing British forces under Montgomery pressing from Malmedy and U.S. General Patton's advancing from Bastogne. Glimpse, from above, of allied bomber over enemy target. Bombs away view of bombs dropping from bomber aircraft and detonating on the snowy ground below. Allied troops moving in snow, beside a rail line and into a town. Four Allied soldiers make a fire and warm themselves, beside a parked snow-covered M4 Sherman tank. Then they begin removing snow from the tank. Army truck moving on snow-covered road. A jeep that slid off the slippery road. Other vehicles having difficulty on the snowy road. Trucks continuing to make their way along road through the forest.
