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Paratroopers walk to gliders and transport aircraft at RAF Ramsbury (WW2)

Mechanic turns the propeller blade of an aircraft. A Douglas C-47 Skytrain “DONNA”. Paratroopers walk two abreast in formation to gliders and board transport planes at British base RAF Ramsbury airfield in Wiltshire, England during World War II, bound for the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080769
Officer reads a message to Operation Market Garden paratroopers at British base RAF Ramsbury (WW2)

US Army officer reads message to a group of American soldiers at RAF Ramsbury airfield in Wiltshire, England during World War II. Closeup views of individual faces of some of the soldiers listening as the officer reads to them. A 1st sergeant of the 101st Airborne Division reads a message from a letter to paratroopers. The troops turn and begin to march towards the parked transport aircraft in the background, heading for the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080770
C-47 transport aircraft take off one by one for Netherlands; WACO glider taxiing at RAF Ramsbury (WW2)

U.S. Army Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport planes take off one by one from RAF Ramsbury airfield in Wiltshire, England during World War II, heading for the Netherlands in Operation Market Garden. A Waco CG-4 Hadrian military glider taxiing, following one of the transport planes at the British airfield. C-47 Skytrain transport plane takes off from the airfield, followed by the WACO CG-4 glider.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080771
U.S. Army C-47 transport plane warms up engines; a British soldier puts on life vest (WW2)

U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division paratroopers at Ramsbury airfield board transport planes bound for Holland, Netherlands during Operation Market Garden of World War II. They carry supplies as they step on landing strip covered in Marston Mats. Wings of the transport planes. C-47 Skytrain transport plane starts and warms up engine. A British paratrooper wearing a beret puts on his life vest and inspects his Sten MK II submachine gun. A young soldier writes a letter or takes notes.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080772
U.S. landing craft prepare to invade Normandy, France during World War II.

A landing craft labeled "US 51" is seen from its starboard side, with cargo in tow and an American flag flying from its mast. There are also more identical ships in the background, all sailing in the English Channel towards Normandy, France in advance of the D-Day invasion of France. The camera cuts to another direction, which shows many more of the same ship, some also with cargo in tow. In this shot, there is land off in the distance, and a few barrage balloons in the sky above the LCIs. The final shot is of a long convoy of ships far off in the distance.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080797
American ships sailing towards Normandy, France, in preparation for D-Day during World War II.

A smaller, support vessel (possibly a minesweeper) with a single mast is seen sailing in the English Channel. Then, a U.S. sailor is seen looking out through a pair of binoculars towards other ships far off in the distance, also traveling towards Normandy. Closer camera view shows that they are World War 2 landing craft infantry (LCI). More LCIs are shown off in the distance, this time with a few sailors and an antiaircraft gun in the foreground. The final shot is zoomed in on three more LCIs sailing next to one another.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080798