Shovels handling ceremony in Holland. Newly recruited Dutch workers stand in a formation during a ceremony. They receive shovels as symbols of their commitment to work for Holland. The uniformed Dutch workers shoulder their shovels and parade.
Strafing of German targets by the U.S. 8th Air Force on Western front, especially northern Holland, Netherlands. Air Force plane in tactical operations. Gun camera footage of U.S. Army Air Force fighter planes out of Strasbourg strafing German held targets in northern Holland including railroad lines and trains. Explosion rises from a hit target. Another large explosion erupts from a target, possibly ammunition depot. Wing is shot and breaks off of incoming German airplane. More scenes of dramatic explosions as targets on ground are hit by American aircraft. Another German plane is hit and is seen falling from the sky. A parachute is seen ejecting one of the crew from the German aircraft. Enemy German held warehouses and other targets are hit by American aircraft strafing. Compelling and dramatic views of explosions including some where debris flies up in air toward attacking U.S. aircraft. (World War II period).
Animated map depicts principal positions of British and French forces on the French-Belgian border in September, 1939 at the start of World War 2, It shows assembly and movement of some forces in Belgium and Holland. Adolf Hitler looks over a planning map with Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch and other officers. Animated map illustrates the disposition of German forces under Generals Bock and Von Rundstedt, and their plan of attack across the Rhine River into Belgium. At German headquarters communications center switchboard operators connect military units to send orders. German soldiers and equipment starts moving with motorcycles, trucks, halftracks and other vehicles. General Franz Halder, Commmander-in-Chief of all German forces, climbs into an open army utility vehicle, after arriving by plane at an airport. An aircraft engine being started. Marshal Hermann Goering, Chief of the airforce (Luftwaffe) converses with an officer at an airport. Junkers Ju 88 bombers taking off and flying in loose formation high overhead. Views from inside one of the aircraft. Closeup of a Heinkel He 111 bomber in flight. View from greenhouse of the aircraft. German paratroopers in the cabin of a Junkers Ju 52 transport plane. Two Ju 52s flying overhead. View from inside a Ju 52 of Belgium and Holland waterways below. Pilot informs the troopers who stand and begin the parachute from the plane into Rotterdam. Closeup of the troopers exiting with chutes starting to open. Three Ju 52s dropping paratroops. Shots of troopers descending under fully open chutes. Aerial view of Rotterdam. German troops running along street and discarding border obstacles with sledge hammers.Military vehicles crossing the border. Tanks used to destroy obstacles. A Stug III crossing the border. German infantry moving cautiously through wooded area. A group drops down to the ground as a shot is heard to ricochet past them. German soldiers firing machine gun. Infantry under fire moving across fields flanking a village. German soldiers under small arms fire, scurry along a deserted steet in a town and seek shelter in doorways. Two carry a wounded comrade. A soldier fires an MG 42 machine gun resting on the shoulder of another soldier. German soldiers stand over two wounded. More German troops running close to buildings for cover.
German soldiers leave Holland after World War II. German troops leaving Holland in landing crafts. Soldiers on horse drawn wagons in a line. A soldier on a tank. Soldiers walk in columns as they leave. Horse drawn carriages move in a line. People watch as the soldiers walk and push loaded carts across a village. Horse drawn carriages move past a village. The soldiers at the German frontier. A sign reads 'You are back in Germany don't fraternize'.
Nazi Invasion of Lowland countries of Europe during World War II. British troops sail from channel ports to go to aid the Dutch defenders in Holland. Destroyer Cossack is back in port. British sailors aboard the ship. Destroyed and damaged buildings in Holland. Civilians and soldiers walk on street.
U.S. 101st Airborne Division invades Holland, Netherlands during World War 2. United States Army Air Force C-47 Skytrains and gliders in flight overhead. Aerial view of flooded lands in Holland. The gliders come in for a landing on a field. A glider tips forward hard and crashes while landing. U.S. Army soldiers and medics work to free men from the wreckage. A soldier chops a part of the glider to rescue a soldier trapped underneath. An injured man crawls out as the rescuers lift up a nose section of glider with name "Jessie" written on front. A jeep is unloaded from a glider.