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U.S. paratroopers of 101st Airborne Division at Royal Air Force Greenham Common airfield, Britain during World War II.
U.S. Army paratroopers of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, bivouacked at British RAF Greenham Common, England, prior to the Operation Market Garden invasion of Holland. Two paratroopers of 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (hearts on their helmets), 101st Airborne Division, clown for the camera with foreign currency. A Lieutenant performs a good-natured inspection of his platoon, for the camera. Paratroopers prepare boxes of demolition charges for air drop. Another Lieutenant of the 502nd PIR inspects members of his Platoon. Soldierss clown around and have fun giving and receiving haircuts. Troopers seated under a tent, sharpening their personal knives and testing the edge by shaving hair on their arms. Group of U.S. Army paratroopers being briefed outside tents and reviewing orientation techniques while one holds a magnetic compass.
187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team patrol in Munsan-ni, Korea
187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team patrol in Munsan-ni, Korea. (Footage shot during Eigth Army retreat from northwestern Korea, southward toward the 38th parallel, under pressure from the Chinese PVA 13th Army group in November and December 1950. During the retreat, the 187th RCT, together with the British Commonwealth Brigade, provided rearguard protection for the Eighth Army's retreat.) The team seen passing through woods. Platoon leaders address soldiers. 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team walks through fields and along ridges. Soldier looks through binoculars. United States Army soldiers set up machine gun on ground.
Supplies are dropped and First Allied Airborne Army troops arrives by parachutes and gliders in Operation Market Garden
Early days of Operation Market Garden in Nijmegen, Holland, Netherlands during World war II. Animated map of France, Belgium, and Netherlands. Allied transport and resupply aircraft in flight over clouds. Aerial view of Nijmegen Netherlands. Allied parachutes carrying supplies floating toward ground. The aircraft drop supplies in the south of Nijmegen. First Allied Airborne Army troops arrive by parachutes and gliders. The parachutists jump from the aircraft and descend towards the land. Unusual scene from camera strapped to the chest of a paratrooper. Shows view upon first jumping, and then view from paratrooper in sky descending and surrounded by other paratroopers with aircraft overhead and ground nearing below. U.S. aircraft parked on a field. The sky if filled with parachutists who are landing. German antiaircraft fire targets Allied planes. An Allied aircraft plunges toward the earth and crashes with a fireball. The Allied troops advance. Explosion in the foreground due to bombing. The aircraft drops bombs. Smoke raises in the foreground due to the bombardment. Gliders in flight. British 1st Airborne Division soldiers advance, engaging in Battle of Arnhem.
German paratroopers' airborne invasion and German Army's attack during the invasion of Crete, Greece.
Nazi Germany launches an airborne invasion of Crete, Greece during World War II. A map shows the advance of the German forces towards Crete. Airborne forces commanded by General Kurt Student advance forward. German pilots fly towards Crete. German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 52 fly towards Crete. The aircraft drop bombs and attack. German paratroopers descend and land below. Machine gunners fire guns. Wrecked Allied aircraft. The German forces advance. German troops climb hills. German soldiers carry guns and attack Allied soldiers. Airplanes drop bombs on land. Soldiers fire artillery. Soldiers hide behind a rocky hill. Soldiers on foot march Allied prisoners (many of the POW appear to be British). The city after the invasion.
U.S. General Patch, U.S. Admiral Hewitt, and French Admiral Lemonnier lead the Allied fleet invasion of southern France.
Amphibious and airborne Allied forces land in southern France during World War II. (Operation Dragoon in August 1944). Map of France depicts Allied landings at Normandy on D-Day. Naples: An Allied naval force assembles, poised for landing in Southern France, 10 weeks after the Normandy D-Day invasion. Thousands of landing crafts, trucks, tanks, mobile cannons, military vehicles and equipment in the embarkation area. Barrages in flight overhead. Allied officers supervise as the vehicles are loaded into ships. US, French, British, Greek and Polish troops move up to their ships. The ships underway in the Mediterranean. U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal, U.S. Army General Alexander Patch, French Admiral Andre Lemonnier and U.S. Navy Admiral Henry Hewitt (Chief of the Atlantic Invasion Fleet) aboard the flagship. Allied soldiers stitch sleeve patches. An animated map depicts the Allied invasion of southern France near Toulon in a combined amphibious and airborne assault. Hundreds of transport aircraft carry paratroop forces. The paratroopers get ready, jump, and descend to the ground. The amphibious forces near the French coast. German shore batteries fire at the approaching naval vessels. Explosions on ships and in water. Allied troops crouched in landing crafts. They hit the beach under shell fire and advance in land.
U.S. President Eisenhower and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge speak about U.S. intervention in the Lebanon Crisis.
United States intervention in the Lebanon Crisis. U.S. Marines reaching the coastline of Lebanon. The Marines climb out of rafts. People watching the Marines. U.S. bomber aircraft in flight. Lebanese people on a beach. U.S. Marines unloading ammunition from the rafts. The Marines holding guns moving into the city of Beirut. The Marines guarding Beirut International Airport. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower during a speech says that U.S. intervention could have serious effects. He says that the United States is neither looking for any material gain nor has it any emotional hostility against any government. The sole aim is the preservation of independence of every state. Several aircraft on an airfield. U.S. 2nd Marine Division enplaning at Cherry Point in North Carolina, U.S. Soldiers holding equipment beside the aircraft. The soldiers walking in columns. Several aircraft on the airfield. U.S. Army airborne troops beside the aircraft. The troops getting into the aircraft. Airborne troops from Germany at Adena air base in Turkey. British paratroops from Cyprus boarding aircraft bound for Jordan. A Royal Air Force aircraft takes off. U.S. aircraft carrier USS Leyte in a harbor. Supplies carried on cranes. U.S. sailors speaking over telephones in phone boxes. Sailors holding cartons moving on a ramp to a vessel. Officials at the United Nations building during a meeting. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Henry Cabot Lodge speaking into a microphone. Officials beside the Ambassador. The Ambassador calls for decisive action by the UN and says U.S. Marines will be withdrawn in accordance with the UN action.
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