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Allied troops including U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit Merrill's Marauders battle enemy in Myitkyina, Burma.
A military film report on the advance of members of U.S. Army 5307th Composite Unit nicknamed Merrill's Marauders towards Myitkyina, Burma for its capture during World War II. Merrill's Marauders on the top of a hill overlooking Myitkyina. Glider reinforcement operations show U.S. Army Air Force airplanes towing gliders over Myitkyina. Gliders and transport airplanes being attacked during landings. Allied troops and Merrill's Marauders advance and fire guns toward Japanese troops. Soldiers fire machine guns. Fighter airplanes in flight overhead. Artillery is fired.
U.S. Army paratroopers jump out of airborne aircraft and descend in Holland.
U.S. 325th Infantry Airborne Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in Holland during Operation Market Garden in World War II. Airplanes in flight overhead. Several paratroopers are dropped onto a field. The paratroopers descend. Medics place a litter with a soldier 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.
1st Allied Airborne Army troops take off from a field in the European Theater during Operation Varsity of World War II.
A film titled 'First Allied Airborne Army in Operation Varsity, 24 March 1945' about the successful airborne crossing of the Rhine river by the 1st Allied Airborne troops during World War II. Aerial views of aircraft and gliders on ground. U.S. Army Air Forces C-46, C-47 aircraft and CG-4 gliders on a field. British Halifax and Sterling bombers. Troops of the U.S. 17th Airborne Division near the aircraft. Soldiers load equipment into gliders and aircraft. Jeeps, vehicles and other equipment loaded onto gliders. Aircraft lined up on a field. Troops don gear and board the glider and aircraft. Propellers turn as aircraft prepare to take off. Aircraft tow gliders as they take off. Gliders and aircraft in flight.
U.S. Paratroopers preparing, and then departing from England, to airdrop over Normandy during World War II
An airfield in England, filled with Waco CG-4A Gliders and their C-47 tow planes, in readiness for the invasion of Normandy, France, in World War 2. U.S. Army Air Forces intelligence officer briefing C-47 and Glider pilots and crews about conditions expected in the drop zones of Normandy before D-Day in World War 2. Brigadier General James Gavin,Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, giving a final briefing to his paratroopers. A military chaplain holding final religious services for troops. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, visiting paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division, as they prepare to depart on the night of June 5, 1944. U.S.Army paratroopers boarding their C-47 aircraft to depart for Normandy on June 5, 1944. Several are seen tying parapacks of heavy equipment to the aircraft for separate release. Paratroopers of 101st Airborne Division, loading equipment aboard a CG-4A Glider, and getting final briefing from their pilot. Other 101st Airborne troopers don personal equipment on the ramp near their C-47 airplane, which displays paint-striped wings and fuselage. Jumpmaster makes final check of his troopers. The paratroopers boarding their aircraft with heavy loads of equipment. C-47 aircraft take off towing their gliders.
Montage of scenes related to role of 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and 9th Troop Carrier Command before D-day, World War II
U.S. soldiers wade ashore at Omaha Fox Green Beach on D-Day, from landing craft of USS Samuel Chase (APA 25). during the Invasion of France. An idyllic English village on June 5, 1944. C-47 aircraft towing a Waco CG-4 glider over shelters made of wooden shipping containers. "Shanty Town" written atop one tall structure. Glider being pulled out a shipping container. Soldiers moving into empty shipping container. Glimpse of their homemade barrack. soldiers eating a meal inside a shipping container shelter. Soldiers at barber shop. German defenses of the Atlantic Wall on the French coast. German gun crews drilling. German rail gun. Animated map of German fortifications of the Atlantic Wall. Allied officers, including U.S. Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, Commander, 9th Air Force and British Air Marshal Arthur Coningham, Commander, 2nd Tactical Air Force, in D-day planning. Airborne troops board buses and arrive at restricted airfields. Troops playing in jazz band; exercising on field; and playing volleyball. Paratroopers reading mail. Airmen painting invasion stripes for D-day on C-47 aircraft. French francs issued to paratroopers. Troopers sharpen knives and bayonets. Chaplains conduct religious services. General Dwight D. Eisenhower visiting 101st Airborne troopers. Airborne Pathfinders. Paratroopers march to C-47s, and don parachutes. Troopers of the 101st Airborne,506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Headquarters Company Demolition Section ("Filthy 13") in their Mohawk Indian haircuts. Clarence Ware puts war paint on Charles Plaudo, using still-wet paint from their C-47's D-day stripes. Heavily laden paratrooper help one another board airplanes. Pathfinder C-47s taking off at dusk, followed by all others, on June 5, 1944. formations of C-47s. Closeup of several planes. Paratroopers exiting C-47s. Formation of towed gliders. Gliders landing in field. Troops from gliders engaging in fire fights. Naval gun barrage.
U.S. General Omar Bradley and U.S. 9th Air Corps Major General Ralph Royce on beachhead in Normandy during World War II.
U.S. officers and troops in Normandy, France during World War 2. U.S. troops at a beach in Normandy. Full track vehicle moves ahead. African American soldiers of the 320th Battalion pose seated against a German coastal gun emplacement.. U.S. troops outside a German pillbox. Danger sign reads ‘minen’. Barrage balloons aloft in background. U.S. Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, Commander of the U.S. 1st Army, and U.S. 9th Air Corps Commander, Major General Ralph Royce standing together. Troops inspect an abandoned artillery gun. U.S. soldier stands next to dead German soldier. A crashed Allied glider. U.S. troops around wrecked Allied glider on a road. Road scrapers level an improvised field for aircraft. U.S. P-38 Lightning fighter lands on the field, creating cloud of dust.
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