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German forces fire on British aircraft and paratroopers in Battle of Arnhem during World War 2

German newsreel shows a map with Arnhem and Nijmegen and other nearby cities in Holland region. British aircraft flying overhead during Operation Market Garden (British 1st Airborne Division) as German troops fire at them from the ground during World War II. Sky is filled with Allied aircraft and parachuting British troops. British planes, gliders, and parachutes descend and some aircraft explode on impact after being hit by German rifle, machine gun, and artillery fire. German soldiers view wreckage and some burning British aircraft through binoculars and up close. British Horsa Invasion gliders burning on an open field. Scattered Allied equipment, dead bodies and gliders are seen. A group of British prisoners of war is seen gathered together on a roadside.

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675038071
German troops fight house to house against Allied (mostly British) forces in Arnhem Netherlands during World War 2

During Operation Market Garden, German soldiers move forward on foot and on bicycles in Arnhem and other areas of Netherlands during World War II. German infantry find abandoned American and British equipment. They open a cigarette tin from their findings, share cigarettes all around, smoking and smiling. German infantry, including some very young German soldiers march along a roadway. House to house fighting between British and German forces in Dutch towns and villages of Arnhem region. Germans take British and American soldiers as prisoners and search them thoroughly. Allied POWs are marched between locations and guarded at roadsides, including near a building with sign that says "Maarland" on it (likely hamlet of Maarland, or present day Oost-Maarland). Near end of clip German narrator references Operation Berlin withdrawal and rescue effort being conducted by Allies to try to remove remaining Allied forces from the region.

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675038072
German forces operating on the Eastern Front, during World War II

German troops in white field garb fighting from trenches on the Eastern Front, during winter, in World War 2. Artillerymen firing heavy guns. One is seen covered with ice and snow, as the gun crew fires. German StuG III Assault Guns and artillery firing at Russian positions. German Soldiers look through binoculars at enemy positions. Shells burst as heavy firing takes place from both the sides. Advancing German infantry jump from an armored vehicle, and run across the field. View from atop an advancing German StuG III. Knocked out Soviet T34 and KV tanks. Soviet Prisoners of War march through a village.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675038103
German forces engage American aircraft over skies of Germany during World War 2

German soldier looks through binoculars at American aircraft flying overhead in Germany, during World War II. German Army soldiers receive call about incoming aircraft from within their underground bunker and run, quickly mobilizing out from their bunkers to man their artillery guns. German anti-aircraft long range artillery guns firing at planes of U.S. Army Air Force. Nazi Luftwaffe fighter planes take off and attack United States B-24 and B-17 bombers. Large number off incoming U.S. aircraft in formation. Aerial gun camera views of dogfights between German aircraft and U.S. Bomber aircraft from view of German aircraft, including close-range air combat. United States B-24 is shot by Germans, suffers explosions in mid-air and crashes to the ground.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675038104
Allied preparation and landing in Normandy on D-Day (WW2)

A film titled 'D-Day' shows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his aides planning the Normandy invasion by looking at a map of Europe. Animated map showing Northern Europe. Slave labor building "West Wall" defense system, according to narrator, but scenes appear to show coastal gun emplacements and defenses more consistent with the Atlantic Wall. Hitler and Nazi German officials. Construction sites as defenses are built by slave labor workers under German guard. German coastal defense in Western Europe showing Howitzers, fortifications, and Nazi German guards. Allied tanks, guns, locomotives and other military equipment is massed on beaches in the United Kingdom before D-Day. Fighter planes in airfield. Men unload supplies and war materiel from the United States. Allied locomotives, brake cars, tank cars, and an armada of Naval ships and landing crafts for D-Day. Assault boats and invasion barges are launched from ships in England. A man smokes a pipe. Barrage balloons flying over ships. Troops, transport, artillery, and materiel are loaded into ships bound for Normandy. A fleet of ships move across the English Channel. United States paratroopers land in Normandy. Firing and bombardment between the Allied forces and Nazi Germany. Bomb explodes off the coast of Normandy. Soldiers in landing craft on the way to Normandy. First landings in Normandy on D-Day during World War II. Soldiers rush to the beachhead, climb cliffs, and put out fires. A soldier rolls in the ground. Soldiers disembark from landing crafts and ships. Barrage balloons over the Normandy beachhead.

Date: 1944
Duration: 9 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038157
Allied soldiers rescued from invasion boats sunk on D-Day are brought to England during World War II

The HMS Nightingale, a British Mining Tender, flying the Royal Naval Ensign, approaches a pier in Plymouth England. Several Royal Navy officers and sailors are aboard along with a number of Allied soldiers who were rescued after their ships were sunk during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Most of the rescued soldiers appear relatively unhurt. However, some are ambulatory wounded and others, more seriously injured, are carried off the boat on stretchers, by British sailors. All proceed up a gangway to a processing center. (Note:The soldier seen at 2 minute mark, fiddling with his gloves, is Private 1st class Paul Knor of E company, U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion, whose boat was sunk while headed for Pointe Du Hoc. He rejoined his Battalion, soon afterwards.)

Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038187