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 Invasion of France during World War II. German ammunition stores at an island in Saint Malo harbor are exploded on 17 August 1944. Allied troops explode stores as Germans refuse to surrender. Large smoke column arises.
As film begins, it shows three American paratroopers with a map, kneeling in a farm field, in Holland, during world War 2. They are consulting two local women kneeling beside them, who point it two directions. They all look up, aware of the camera. A Waco CG-4 glider is in the background, with its front hatch opened. Several paratroopers stand near it. Momentary glimpse of several troopers walking across the field toward their glider. Scene jumps back to the troopers and women, and then back, again, to troopers walking toward the glider. A local man ducks under the camera as it records the troopers crossing the field. Closer view of troopers gathered around the glider (its front hatch is closed), along with several local people, including the three women seen earlier. Soon, local people, including many youth gather around a trooper in a jeep that got stuck in a ditch. They try to free it. Several troopers ride in a horse-drawn cart. A formation of B-24 Liberator bombers is seen inflight overhead. Scene shifts back to troopers in the horse-drawn cart. Local youth with bicycles stand watching them. Remainder of the film shows various views of supplies and equipment being dropped by parachutes from the B-24s.
Construction of roads in Holland during World War 2, by U.S. Army engineers. Swampy mud blocks the traffic. Soldiers shoveling mud. Trucks and equipment stuck in mud, with wheels spinning. United States soldiers move the mud with rolling equipment. Soldier in a jeep crosses the muddy area. U.S. army engineers work with rolling equipment. They stand on the rolling equipment to push the mud out of the way. Soldiers try to pull a jeep out of the mud. Engineers cut down trees and fit wood logs to make corduroy road. Vehicles pass over the bridge. Traffic restored and trucks and armor including tanks continue their advance toward Germany. Close-up view of U.S. Army soldiers smoking cigarettes, cooking their K-rations over a wood fire, and then eating. One soldier takes a bite of food and shakes his head conveying that it does not taste good.
Allied troops in Holland during World War II. Jeeps towing equipment move along a road. Civilians cheer. Houses along the sides of a street. A sign board reads: 'Hertogenbosch, Nijmegen and Eindhoven'. British XXX Corps tanks roll through streets. Local spectators stand on both sides of the street. This town is Son, just north of Eindhoven
U.S. 325th Infantry Airborne Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in Holland during World War II. Airplanes in flight overhead. Several paratroopers are dropped onto a field. The paratroopers descend. Medics place a litter with a patient in a jeep. U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrains pass overhead towing gliders which are released and glide to the field. The paratroopers with free field packs walk away from the gliders. A glider with partially damaged tail and a window. An injured paratrooper is treated by the medics.
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