During visit to 101st Airborne Division at RAF Welford airfield in Berkshire County, England, General Eisenhower is seen smiling while standing on a reviewing platform, along with British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill,Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, and Brigadier General Maxwell Taylor, Commander of the 101st. Eisenhower smiles and uses binoculars to watch as 1,500 U.S. paratroopers are dropped from C-47 transport aircraft flying overhead. After the demonstration, Churchill, Eisenhower, and Taylor,enter the back back seat of an open Dodge 3/4-ton T214 vehicle, being used as a staff car. The car proceeds along a road, with driver and a British official in the front seat. Colonel George S. Wear, Commander,327th Glider Infantry Regiment (GIR), is seen standing with officers of his unit. Prime Minister Churchill addresses troopers of the 101st Division, while standing in the staff car. General Eisenhower stands among the soldiers listening. Colonel Wear and officers of the 327th GIR, including a Chaplain, are seen applauding.
Production of Waco CG-4A gliders at a Ford plant in Michigan, United States during World War 2. C-47 aircraft towing gliders. view of a glider from open door of a C-47. A CG-4A glider landing on a grass field and sliding to a halt just in front of the camera. A pilot seated in the front with a glass panel across the top half of the cabin. Soldiers march to load up in CG-4A gliders. A glider comes in for a landing in sand on a beachhead, followed by another. Exteriors of Ford glider plant near Iron Mountain, Michigan. Workers cover a part of a fuselage and set up wings. They attach wings to the glider.
Few C-47 tow gliders flying low over beachhead. View of 42nd Field Hospital U.S. where large number of wounded soldiers lying on litters surrounded by many field hospital tents, following D-Day Invasion in World War 2. Closeup view of Airborne patches of 101st and 82nd airborne units sewn to the arm sleeves of U.S. Army soldiers. Wounded soldiers on stretchers eat rations. (World War II period).
Map shows Allied army drives toward Germany in World War 2, and Battle of the bulge counter attack by Germans. Smoke rising from ruins. An American Army engineer douses a fire. In the ruins of Malmedy, Belgium, a sign reads: "Tower Room Malamedy, Protestant Church." Map shows Bastogne. Some of 400 C-47 transport aircraft resupply flights are seen in the air after weather clears. They airdrop food and ammunition to U.S Army troops who had been holding their position and preventing Germans from overtaking in the snow at Bastogne. U.S. gliders, that brought medical assistance, are seen on the snow-covered ground. Aerial view snow covered town. View of food bundles and supplies. Elements of General Patton's 3rd Army arriving to break through German lines and reach the embattled 101st Airborne at Bastogne. Dead and captured German soldier prisoners of war (POW). Destroyed tanks and equipment. Later (January, 1945) Commander of the 101st Airborne Division, Major General Maxwell Davenport Taylor congratulates Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe for his defense of Bastogne. American troops in Bastogne find time to rest up and smile for the camera after enduring difficult battle.
A U.S. cemetery near Eterville after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Frenchmen bury dead paratroopers of U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. Wrecked gliders in the foreground.
Glider champion Don Stevens flies his glider in San Fernando, California. Men stand with other people near a glider. Stevens boards the glider. The glider is hitched with a car. The car moves on a street. The glider in flight. Mountains and trees in the background.
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