German newsreel shows a map with Arnhem and Nijmegen and other nearby cities in Holland region. British aircraft flying overhead during Operation Market Garden (British 1st Airborne Division) as German troops fire at them from the ground during World War II. Sky is filled with Allied aircraft and parachuting British troops. British planes, gliders, and parachutes descend and some aircraft explode on impact after being hit by German rifle, machine gun, and artillery fire. German soldiers view wreckage and some burning British aircraft through binoculars and up close. British Horsa Invasion gliders burning on an open field. Scattered Allied equipment, dead bodies and gliders are seen. A group of British prisoners of war is seen gathered together on a roadside.
During Operation Market Garden, German soldiers move forward on foot and on bicycles in Arnhem and other areas of Netherlands during World War II. German infantry find abandoned American and British equipment. They open a cigarette tin from their findings, share cigarettes all around, smoking and smiling. German infantry, including some very young German soldiers march along a roadway. House to house fighting between British and German forces in Dutch towns and villages of Arnhem region. Germans take British and American soldiers as prisoners and search them thoroughly. Allied POWs are marched between locations and guarded at roadsides, including near a building with sign that says "Maarland" on it (likely hamlet of Maarland, or present day Oost-Maarland). Near end of clip German narrator references Operation Berlin withdrawal and rescue effort being conducted by Allies to try to remove remaining Allied forces from the region.
An enactment shows an Officer passing on the information gathered from British Prisoners of War to his Senior Officer in World War II. He also gets information from an injured prisoner in the hospital with the help of a nurse. Officer fixes a wireless radio at the prison camp and is thus capable to get valuable information about what the prisoners talk amongst them.
A film titled 'Interrogation of prisoners' shows an American officer speaking about the do's and don't s for Prisoners of Wars. He also introduces the cast of the film to follow. An enactment shows British airmen being caught by enemy in World War II. Their uniforms being searched and enemy recovers a slip of paper which ultimately proves handy for them. Enemy officer interrogates the prisoners.
German soldier looks through binoculars at American aircraft flying overhead in Germany, during World War II. German Army soldiers receive call about incoming aircraft from within their underground bunker and run, quickly mobilizing out from their bunkers to man their artillery guns. German anti-aircraft long range artillery guns firing at planes of U.S. Army Air Force. Nazi Luftwaffe fighter planes take off and attack United States B-24 and B-17 bombers. Large number off incoming U.S. aircraft in formation. Aerial gun camera views of dogfights between German aircraft and U.S. Bomber aircraft from view of German aircraft, including close-range air combat. United States B-24 is shot by Germans, suffers explosions in mid-air and crashes to the ground.
United States CG-4A, a cargo military glider and C-47 Skytrain take off in Brisbane, Australia in World War II. The two aircrafts fly overhead.
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