Deserted street in Nijmegen,Holland during World War 2. An explosion occurs at the end of the street. Camera moves to Mariënburgsestraat, to show a burning military armored vehicle, with flames spreading to adjacent building. Dense black smoke rises from the fire and a secondary explosion occurs. Camera view from the other side of the fire, showing the building now completely ablaze, with fire visible at every window. Camera switches back and forth between the burning armored vehicle and the building now completely consumed by the fire.
U.S. soldiers in Holland during World War 2. Soldiers aboard a jeep passing on a street. Trees in the area. 376th Field Unit hospital on the outskirts of Nijmegen. Two U.S. soldiers carry a tank of blood into the building. American soldiers standing among wounded German prisoners of war lying on litters outside the building and mingling with ambulatory wounded German soldiers in a garden. Closups of several German wounded on stretchers. Local civilians including a nurse in white, helping the wounded. Red Cross corpsman making out identification tags for wounded. Ambulatory wounded standing and walking about in front of the building. U.S. wounded soldiers being transported by jeep and removed from field ambulances. One being carried by a single soldier, into a building and others following on litters. (Note: The gentleman in white coat, at TC: 00:56 to 00:59, has been identified, by his son, as J. Th. van der Schoot, then 35 years old, who worked at the Canisius hospital in Nijmegen, and lived across the street from the 376th Field Unit hospital at Houtlaan nr.19, Nijmegen.)
U.S. soldiers in Holland during World War II. Rubbled buildings in an area. People walking on a street with rubble everywhere. An unstable building falls apart in the distance, sending a cloud of dust upward. Soldiers standing and talking. A U.S. soldier kneels beside a hastily dug grave. 376th Field Unit hospital on the outskirts of Nijmegen. Several patients standing outside the building. Wounded soldiers are brought inside the building. The patients receive food. They eat food outside the building as nurses assist them.
British Royal Marines land in Holland during World War II. The Marines in landing crafts en route to Walcheren Island. Men and equipment aboard the landing crafts. A convoy of the landing crafts. British Marines cleaning rifles and loading cartridge clips. Rockets are fired from a ship. Hits on the island. An airplane drop bombs on the island. Smoke rises from explosions. Enemy artillery hits near a landing craft. A shell explodes near a landing craft. Men climb into Landing vehicles Tracked (LVTs). Troops coming ashore.
U.S. paratroopers in Holland during World War II. Paratroopers advance across a field. A jeep drives across a bridge. M-4 tanks and troops cross the bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal and enter town of Son. Natives cheer. A little girl waves the American flag. German prisoners lined up against a building. Trucks and jeeps loaded with troops drive past cheering crowds.
Airplane C-47s fly low as paratroopers jump. Many paratroopers jump from the planes. A parachutist opens bag. The sky filled with parachutes from C-47s in flight with men and supplies coming down to the field. (World War II period)
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