Recreational activities of U.S. Army Air Force 303rd Bomb Group in England during World War II. A fountain seen. Personnel swim in a swimming pool. Several personnel rest beside the pool. The personnel climb up a diving ramp. Various buildings and housing facilities.
Planning of U.S. 56th Fighter Group in England for a bombing raid on Emden, Germany during World War II. An officer unveils a mission map, rechecks a route and messages. He checks a report with a weather officer. Personnel looking at a map of Holland and marking a route on the map.
Planning of a bombing raid on Emden, Germany by U.S. 56th Fighter Group in England during World War II. Personnel arriving on bicycles and jeeps enter a briefing room. The personnel being briefed by group commander Colonel Hubert Zemke and others at a map. The personnel attending the briefing.
A military ceremony in England. A British official lays a wreath at a monument. Army officials stand near the official laying the wreath. An artillery gun is fired in honor. The British flag is raised. British guards march. Officers salute the marching guards. A crowd milling about.
President of Czechoslovakia Dr. Edvard Beneš returns to his homeland after spending seven years in exile in World War II. A car pulls up and Czech President gets off the car in England. President Beneš reviews Czechoslovakian troops at an airport as he leaves for his homeland after seven years in exile. Beneš boards an aircraft, and it takes off.
U.S. paratroopers depart England, the evening before D-day, to be airdropped over Normandy France, in World War 2. U.S. Lieutenant General Louis H. Brereton, Commander, 9th Air Force, converses with two other officers as they stand by a staff car on RAF Greenham Common airfield, England. He waves a riding crop as he steps into the staff car, which carries three stars on a bumper plate. Scene shifts to the flight line where General Brereton is smoking a cigarette as he converses with American and British officers, standing beside C-47 aircraft number 43-15296. Brereton chats with two paratroopers of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, and shakes hands with one. The C-47, named, "That's All...Brother," taxis forward, along with several others, toward the active runway. Many aircraft are then seen taking off, one at a time, in the dusk, with their wingtip lights on.
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