United States Army and British Army airlifts paratroopers from England to the border of Holland during World War II. British and American transport airplanes and gliders land near Arnhem Holland (Netherlands). Soldiers, tanks and guns supplies offloaded and soldiers begin fighting with the enemy. Soldiers of Dutch Army aid the Allied forces. Allied soldiers rescue injured soldiers and advance towards enemy lines. Allied soldiers meet with Dutch Resistance or Dutch Underground Army members wearing identifying armbands. Group of German Army prisoners is seen including many young boy soldiers. Allied landing draws attention of German units allowing U.S. Army units to cross border into Germany. American soldiers near a bridge and crossing into Germany. They pass near railroad station at Roetgen Germany. Nazi German prisoners use horse carts and bicycle transport while being led away under Allied guard.
Allied soldiers taken prisoners in the Netherlands during World War II. Camera pans across German soldiers moving single-file along a stretch of woods. Destroyed allied equipment and supplies in a glade. German soldiers rummage through abandoned things and pick up a tin of cigarettes, which they share. They smile as they smoke them. German infantry with small arms and panzerfaust anti-tank weapons make their way along a tree line. German bicycle troops moving along a divided highway. German infantry rushing toward a group of houses, and engaging Allied troops in suburban area firefights. Lots of gunfire and smoke. Allied soldiers being taken prisoner. A paratrooper's chute on the roof of a dwelling. Allied prisoners of war being escorted and held under guard, in a ditch next to a rail line. Parachutes that got entangled along the rail line. Many scenes of Allied prisoners being marched under guard.
During Operation Market Garden, German soldiers move forward on foot and on bicycles in Arnhem and other areas of Netherlands during World War II. German infantry find abandoned American and British equipment. They open a cigarette tin from their findings, share cigarettes all around, smoking and smiling. German infantry, including some very young German soldiers march along a roadway. House to house fighting between British and German forces in Dutch towns and villages of Arnhem region. Germans take British and American soldiers as prisoners and search them thoroughly. Allied POWs are marched between locations and guarded at roadsides, including near a building with sign that says "Maarland" on it (likely hamlet of Maarland, or present day Oost-Maarland). Near end of clip German narrator references Operation Berlin withdrawal and rescue effort being conducted by Allies to try to remove remaining Allied forces from the region.
Flooding in Arnhem Netherlands during World War II. A German soldier drives a motorcycle in the flooded waters. Water flowing with a few trees in the center. A high water marker with a reading nearly at the top of the meter. A damaged building in the flooded area.
Allied Army Generals in Maastricht, Netherlands during World War II. Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Omar Bradley and U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Simpson at U.S. 9th Army Headquarters. They walk along a street.
British Marine Commandos and Canadian First Army attack Nazi positions during World War II. Soldiers on a ship ready to attack Walcheren Islands through the Scheldt Estuary in Netherlands. Soldiers load and fire artillery. Smoke arises due to explosion. British soldier on ship fires at the Nazis. The ship sinks due to the attack. British Typhoons dive bomb German battery. Soldiers keep a watch. Explosions in water. German guns hit a boat. Canadian First Army landing craft make landings on beaches at Flushing on Walcheren under heavy fire from the Germans. Machine gun and artillery fired. Soldiers carry equipment across the beach. Allied flags sway with the breeze. Soldiers fire at the retreating Nazis. Soldiers capture Westkapelle. Destroyed buildings and rubble. Soldiers celebrate the victory which opens the route to Antwerp.
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