U.S. Army General Dwight David Eisenhower meets dignitaries in Brussels, Belgium during World War II. He meets Prince Charles and the Prime Minister of Belgium and other officials. The officials standing on the steps of a building. Eisenhower shaking hands with them.
U.S. Congressmen visit the 12th Army Group Tactical Air Command headquarters in Luxembourg during World War II. Opening scene shows the Congressmen of the House Military Affairs Committee, seated around a luncheon table with U.S. Army officers. The luncheon is hosted by Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, who converses with Committee members at the head table. Among those seated at other parts of the table is Republican Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce of Connecticut. She sits between two Army officers, and across from Republican Congressman Paul W. Shafer of Michigan. Closer to the camera, a field grade woman army officer is seen among the military guests. This sequence captures the end of the luncheon, when guests are having coffee. Several guests smoke cigarettes, including Clare Boothe Luce. Closeup of General Bradley, conversing.
U.S. Army Lieutenant General Omar Bradley prepares to meet members of the Congressional House Military Affairs Committee upon their visit to Headquarters of the 12th Army Group Tactical Air Command, in Luxembourg, during World War 2. A staff car stops,on Place de la Gare. The Hotel Clesse is seen in the background. General Bradley defers to Ambassador Charles W. Sawyer, who is smoking a cigarette. Sawyer enters the car, followed by Bradley. (another man is already in the back seat.) The car drives along a boulevard lined with tram tracks. Three stars are prominently displayed on the car's bumper. The car stops and two attending soldiers salute as General Bradley steps to the sidewalk. He is followed by Ambassador Sawyer and the other person. The three climb steps to enter a building. Some sort of official proclamation is posted near the entrance. A sign at the door reads "Show your identification." The staff car drives away and a Military Police jeep arrives, leading several cars carrying the House Committee members, who are then escorted into the building. Later, Committee members are seen exiting the building, including Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce of Connecticut,walking with Congressman Paul W. Shafer of Michigan. Cars for the Committee parked on cobblestone street, near a. Sign by some barbed wire prohibiting entry. Committee members begin boarding their cars and driving away.
Allied troops and equipment being captured by German soldiers in Europe during World War II. Aerial view of aircraft parked on a field. Troops towing a bomber. Soldiers standing nearby. Men loading artillery and other equipment into airplanes. A British bomber taking off from an airfield. Groups of Allied bombers in flight. Soldiers riding a motorcycle with sidecar. A soldier slips and fall out of the motorcycle. German troops firing artillery into enemy position. Wreckage of a crashed bomber on the ground. Wreckage of more British bombers and fighters. Interior of a crashed British bomber. German troops recover a Jeep from the wreckage. German soldiers drive a seized Jeep. German Abwehr soldiers wearing leaves for camouflage. Soldiers standing nearby. Some of the soldiers aboard a camouflaged tank advancing on the battlefield. A German tank passes by an Allied plane wing wreckage hanging from a tree. A parachute hanging from a tree. Captured Allied pilots (of the 1st Canadian Parachute Regiment) raise their hands as they’re led away. German troops escort Allied prisoners of war. Captured Allied soldiers show a map to German officer. The sleeve patch of a captured Canadian soldier reads: '1st Canadian Parachute Regiment'. An insignia of the same. A captured pilot with eye bandage. Captured Allied troops are led out of a building. Soldiers aboard tanks advancing on a battlefield. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment. A wrecked airplane on a field. Soldiers seated near a building. Insignias on the uniforms of the soldiers, including the United States 101st Airborne Division, 82nd Airborne Division, and the Para/Glider Infantry cap patch (patch with white glider and parachute on dark blue with red circle).
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.
U.S. 101st Airborne Division in England during World War 2. Paratroopers marching on Welford airfield, Berkshire, England, then home of the U.S. 435th Troop Carrier Group. They march past gliders parked with their rear doors open. Tail of a WACO CG-4A Glider is seen with serial number 277396. A band plays. An olive drab staff car arrives on the airfield. U.S. Army General Dwight D Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill alight from the car. They review 101st Airborne Division troops with its Commander, U.S. Army Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor. Churchill, Eisenhower, and Taylor review the troops by walking amongst them. Prime Minister Winston Churchill shakes hands with Brigadier General Don Pratt, Assistant Division Commander of the 101st Airborne Division (who was later killed on D-Day in the Normandy Landings). As the reviewing party proceeds, they pass the guidon of 321st Glider Artillery Headquarters, displaying crossed cannons. Churchill pauses momentarily, as he passes a British paratrooper in formation with the 101st Airborne.
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