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German narrated film shows operations of Allied forces attacking German-held Holland during World War II.
German narrator describes a map of the plan of an Allied aerial and land operation, pointing at locations in the Netherlands including Nijmegen and Arnhem and Eindhoven. British bomber aircraft parked on a British airfield. Still images of British gliders on airfield being loaded with equipment including tanks. Still image aerial view of British glider flying, attached to tow rope. A British airfield filled with parked gliders and a British soldier driving a jeep into the belly of a glider transport.
Inhabitants of San Pietro Infine, Italy, attempt to begin life anew, after U.S. Forces capture the village from German Forces, during World War II
Aftermath of the Battle of St. Pietro Infine, Italy, after it was taken by soldiers of the U.S. 36th Division, 143rd Infantry Regiment and troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, during World War 2. Several U.S. soldiers of the 143rd Infantry Regiment, scramble down a mountainside over rubble from destroyed buildings in San Pietro Infine, Italy, following the battle there during December 1943. (These scenes were photographed later, in 1944.) Next, more local people are seen running from a mountain cave, where they had taken refuge during the battle of San Pietro. Old people, women, and children make their way down the rubble strewn hillside and onto a remnant of road surrounded by destroyed buildings. Italian women carry their belongings balanced on their heads as they walk towards the remains of their dwellings. A man leads two cattle. One woman carries a new coffin balanced on her head. An 82nd Airborne trooper warns local people about the danger of mines and booby traps left behind by retreating German soldiers. A soldier removes a booby trap in a doorway. Women trying to clean up and settle in the ruins of their homes. As one woman sweeps debris, an huge explosion occurs, bringing down large portions of a building. U.S. Soldiers dig through debris, with shovels. An MP and infantryman stand with several Italian men as one is grief stricken while they retrieve the body of a loved one from the rubble. A woman weeps. Women nurse and comfort their babies. Small children are seen happily emerging from a cave. A mother admonishes her boy. Women and children are relieved and smiling. Several children scamper down a hill. Others are seen walking about and posing shyly for the camera. Local men clearing rubble and women washing clothes in an outdoor stream as they try to reestablish some normalcy in their lives. A shoemaker resuming business at a small bench outdoors. Men unloading sacks of flour from a truck. People purchasing flour being weighed in an outdoor market. Farmers plowing fields with oxen. A church procession, led by a youth carrying a Christian banner, moves from a bombed out church, between mounds of rubble, . Statue of a Saint at the church.
U.S. 9th Air Force B-26 aircraft drop bombs on marshaling yards in Normandy, France during World War II.
U.S. 9th Air Force air attacks against France during World War II. Aerial views of the 9th Air Force aircraft in flight on June 7, 1944. A convoy of Allied ships underway in the English Channel. Landing crafts circle around the ships. Aircraft attacks German gun emplacements and smoke rises as bombs hit the targets. Saint Lo being bombarded. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauders bombard marshaling yards. Billows of smoke rises due to bombing. Bombs drop and impact results in smoke and fire.
British and American C-47 tow planes and gliders during Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II
Aerial view of many USAAF Troop Carrier Command C-47 aircraft,together with gliders, parked on a field in England. The aircraft and gliders are all painted in D-Day stripes. Views on ground of C-47s taking off towing gliders behind. Formation of C-47s and gliders overhead. Views from an aircraft in a formation. Below, the Portland Bill lighthouse & directional beacon (code-named Flatbush) is seen as the formation departs the English coast. (Note: film view of Portland Bill light is reversed. Roundabout should appear to right of the lighthouse.) Closeup of a glider in the formation. View from a ship, in the English Channel, as an airplane crashes and explodes on the French coast. Aerial view of landing craft on the Normandy beach, as the formation passes overhead. View of French fields flooded by the Germans. Aerial view of parachutes from U.S. Army paratroopers who had dropped into France the night before (June 5th), but no sign of the troops themselves. Masses of gliders on the ground. View inside a glider as it cuts loose from its C-47 tow plane. View from ground as gliders cut loose and maneuver for landing. View of a glider that crashed into a German Headquarters building, and view of another landing in water. Allied gliders destroyed (some burning) and damaged by German gunfire and passive defenses (15 foot poles planted closely in landing zones). A German artillery piece concealed at the edge of a landing zone. American troops, from the gliders, marching into Saint Marcouf, France. Montage of Allied advances and gunfire. Road sign pointing to Sainte Marie-du Mont and Carentan. U.S. troops moving through French town of Sainte Marie-du Monte. U.S. troops riding in a captured German Ketenkrad tracked motorcycle.
Italians cheer as American soldiers of the 5th Army enter Rome, Italy, during WWII
The United States 5th Army enter Rome, Italy during World War II. Italians fill the streets and cheer for the Americans. Italians gather in front of the Porta San Giovanni (00185 Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy) near the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. Crowds of Italians cheering in front of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. Soldiers on military vehicles, M4 Sherman tanks, trucks and jeeps proceed into the center of Rome, past the Colosseum (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy) and other ancient structures and landmarks including the Vittoriano and Capidoglio on Capitoline Hill. United States soldiers in truck near the Circus Maximus (Circo Massimo, Via del Circo Massimo, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). Crowds gathered in front of the Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria, Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). Men carrying the Italian flag on top of a truck driving in Via del Corso. The American, British and Italian flags hang in front of the Campidoglio. Façade of the Campidoglio (Piazza del Campidoglio, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). Young Italian men and women wave at the camera while marching. Italians hitch a ride with soldiers on a Jeep in front of the Saint Peter’s Basilica (Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City). Some Italian civilians ride with U.S. soldiers on their trucks. U.S. Lieutenant General Mark Clark consults with two U.S. Major Generals.
Town of Saint Lo during allied invasion of France in World War II.
View of Saint Lo town during allied bombings of World War II. CIC patrol moves through ruins of Saint Lo . Patrol searches for deserted buildings though streets. Engineers use mine detectors. An engineer probes for mine.
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