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Supplies are dropped and First Allied Airborne Army troops arrives by parachutes and gliders in Operation Market Garden

Early days of Operation Market Garden in Nijmegen, Holland, Netherlands during World war II. Animated map of France, Belgium, and Netherlands. Allied transport and resupply aircraft in flight over clouds. Aerial view of Nijmegen Netherlands. Allied parachutes carrying supplies floating toward ground. The aircraft drop supplies in the south of Nijmegen. First Allied Airborne Army troops arrive by parachutes and gliders. The parachutists jump from the aircraft and descend towards the land. Unusual scene from camera strapped to the chest of a paratrooper. Shows view upon first jumping, and then view from paratrooper in sky descending and surrounded by other paratroopers with aircraft overhead and ground nearing below. U.S. aircraft parked on a field. The sky if filled with parachutists who are landing. German antiaircraft fire targets Allied planes. An Allied aircraft plunges toward the earth and crashes with a fireball. The Allied troops advance. Explosion in the foreground due to bombing. The aircraft drops bombs. Smoke raises in the foreground due to the bombardment. Gliders in flight. British 1st Airborne Division soldiers advance, engaging in Battle of Arnhem.

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068875
A D-Day fleet of landing crafts, merchant vessels and warships in the English Channel and warships fire at the French coast.

A fleet of landing crafts and warships in the English Channel for the D-Day invasion of France during World War II. The fleet of landing crafts, merchant vessels and warships in the channel. U.S. soldiers and equipment on landing crafts. Warships fire at the French coast. U.S. soldiers climb down cargo nets from transports to LCMs ( Landing Craft Mechanized). Trucks are transferred from transports to LCMs.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070900
A swamped LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) sinks and the crew is rescued in the English Channel during D-Day operations.

A fleet of landing crafts and warships in the English Channel for the D-Day invasion of France during World War II. A swamped LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) sinks. The crew swims in the Channel. The crew is rescued. Landing crafts, merchant vessels and warships in the English Channel. A stalled DUKW is pulled ashore by a bulldozer.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070901
United States troops advance through the Siegfried Line and enter a German village and town during World War II.

Film opens showing American soldiers riding in an open tracked personnel carrier, along a road in France, during World War 2. They pass a burning destroyed German tank at the roadside. A U.S. Army truck full of troops and a jeep follow the personnel carrier. Next dragon's teeth tank traps are seen in the snow. A U.S. M10 tank destroyer and a truck are parked near the dragon's teeth. A gunner atop the M10 fires his M2 Browning heavy machine gun. The M10 continues to move past the dragon's teeth. Infantry are seen accompanied by a whitewashed M4A3(76) Sherman tank. Other troops are settled into positions in the snow beside the narrow road. View from behind advancing troops. Explosions in a hillside as shells strike from an M4A3(105) firing rounds. White smoke rising from phosphorous shells fired into a German village. An M4A3(76) tank firing rounds in the village. Sherman medium tanks moving through rubble and then on a town street. Two M4A3(75) tanks parked side-by-side in the town. Tank commander in one points down the street, as hatch in the nearest one begins to open. U.S. infantry moving through the town accompanied by these tanks. Armored infantry hunker down behind a tank as it passes a church building. Some soldiers scamper down a hill toward village wooden buildings. Two are seen escorting a German prisoner, who collapses and has to be helped to his feet. Three other U.S. soldiers are approached by a surrendering German soldier with his hands in the air. Next American soldiers are seen taking several surrendering German soldiers into custody.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071146
Eisenhower, Tedder and Montgomery view the tons of supplies and join the troops engaged in mass maneuvers in Great Britain.

Preview of pre-invasion maneuvers in Great Britain during World War II, less than 2 months before the D-Day invasion of France by Allied forces. Men accumulate tons of supplies and motor cars are lined up. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marshal of the Royal air Force Arthur William Tedder and British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery view the tons of supplies which have been accumulated. Photographers take photos. They join the troops who engage in mass maneuvers. View of a British soldier loading and firing a British spigot mortar type 35 pound anti tank PIAT gun (Projector, Infantry, Anti tank), new machine guns spit into action from tanks and masses of tanks give off salvos of artillery fire. A huge formations of transport planes in flight as hundreds of paratroopers descend on ground.

Date: 1944, March 16
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071245
A U.S. officer of 3rd Division briefs soldiers on the deck of a ship underway in Mediterranean Sea during World War II.

Invasion troops of U.S. Army aboard ship en-route to Saint-Tropez, France during World War II. A U.S. officer of 3rd Division briefs soldiers on the deck of a ship. The briefing map.

Date: 1944, August 14
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074250