U.S. Army paratroopers are seen heading toward C-47 transport planes and boarding them for a planned post-war airborne exercise in the Philippines. A large number of C-47 transport aircraft are seen with engines running on an airfield. They begin to taxi out for takeoff. View of a C-47 plane in flight, carrying an advance trooper who parachutes out carrying a radio beacon which he is next seen setting up the "Eureka" part of Signal Corps "Rebecca/Eureka" system. Closeup of the equipment and the trooper setting it up. He assembles a long radio antenna attached to the transmitter. View of three C-47 aircraft in flight heading toward the paratrooper drop zone. Animated drawing shows how the aircraft, carrying the "Rebecca" airborne interrogators, home in on the Eureka signal from the ground. Next, paratroopers are seen exiting aircraft over the drop zone. View from another airplane of the troopers' chutes opening and them descending from the C-47s. Parachutes are silhouetted against cloudy skies. Paratroopers landing, some roughly, on the ground.
U.S. infantrymen marching to Bavigne in Luxembourg during World War II. The infantrymen of the 358th Regiment, 90th Division marching along a highway. A jeep passing on the road. Houses in the area.
The United States Army 415th Regiment, 104th Infantry Division in Cologne, Germany during World War II. Destroyed buildings along a street in Cologne. A soldier fires a rifle. Another soldier observes the surroundings through binoculars. Soldiers advancing on the street and firing rifles. Debris and rubble on the street. Destroyed buildings on both sides of the street. Wrecked vehicles on the street. Two soldiers talking.
U.S. soldiers in Julich, Germany during World War II. M-4 tanks, half-tracks and other vehicles of the 2nd Armored Division moving on an unpaved road. Soldiers aboard the vehicles. Destroyed houses along the side of Roer River. A pontoon bridge over the river.
U.S. soldiers in Julich, Germany during World War II. Soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division aboard military vehicles passing along an unpaved road. Destroyed houses and trees along the side of the road. Soldiers aboard the vehicles crossing the pontoon bridge over the Roer River. Destroyed houses in the foreground. Debris on the ground. Soldiers standing near the destroyed houses.
U.S. soldiers in Julich, Germany during World War II. Soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division crossing the Roer River. Tanks moving on the pontoon bridge. Soldiers aboard the tanks. Other soldiers standing on the bridge. A sign on the bridge reads: 'To Berlin, Compliments 554th Engineer Bn'. Destroyed houses in the foreground.
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