Activities in an aircraft during a flight from Clark Air Base in Philippines. A cockpit radarscope, a radar altimeter, in flight data sheet and a wheel seen. The load master serves lunch to the pilot and the copilot. The pilot checks a map and looks puzzled. He turns and talks.
Activities in an aircraft during a flight from Clark Air Base in Philippines. The copilot at the controls. He checks a strip map and talks. The pilot's hands on the control column. A cockpit radarscope seen.
Activities in an aircraft during a flight from Clark Air Base in Philippines. The load master gives blankets to the passengers. The passengers talk to the load master. He fills coffee in cups with a coffee machine. Coffee is served to the passengers. He does paperwork.
A chimpanzee orbits the earth twice. NASA technicians and scientists with Enos, a 5 and a half year old chimpanzee, in Cape Canaveral. They place the chimpanzee in a transfer van. Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft on launch pad. The launch of the missile. The missile goes into the space. A capsule orbits the earth 2 times. The capsule lands in the ocean. A rescue team recovers the capsule. They take the chimpanzee to an ambulance. A crane holds the capsule. At the Kenley Air Force Base hospital doctors examine the chimpanzee.
At start, the film shows a formation of American C-47 transport aircraft with paratroopers starting to jump from them during World War 2. Viewed moments later from the ground, the sky is filled with trooper' open chutes, descending. An animated map shows Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany. It shows location of the Allied paratroopers drop in Holland, intended to spearhead a drive around the Main River into Germany. The map then shows German forces encircling the paratroopers and the Second British Army heading North to the rescue. Next, a huge number of American Soldiers are seen assembled out of doors in England. Closeup of General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking in a microphone to the assembly. Closeups of soldiers including some who are American Army Air Corps pilots, and other aircrew members, mostly Lieutenants. Senior Paratrooper officers stand at attention in front of formation of troopers with American flag beside them.(Narrator says these were the men who made up the "lost division," heroes who fought alone for seven terrible days.) General Eisenhower makes his way between close ranks of the paratroopers. He is followed by Brigadier General and a Colonel. Lieutenant General Lewis H Bereton also makes his way through the ranks. Scene shifts to a base in England where many British Airspeed AS.51 Horsa gliders are seen with paratroopers heading across the airfield to board. American C-47 aircraft are seen in the background. All aircraft are painted with D-Day stripes. Several British and American paratroop officers review a map together. At a tent camp, A military policeman and two U.S. paratroopers checking their weapons and ammunition. Some troopers sharpen their knives. A trooper is issued Dutch and German money. A British and and American trooper in camouflaged helmets, pose before a glider with a huge British roundel on its side. British paratroopers boarding a Horsa glider, named "Gertie." A Horsa glider moving as it is towed by a British Whitley twin-engine bomber. View from side of runway as the bomber takes off with its towed glider behind. (Narrator comments: "Destination, Holland.") Formations of tow planes and gliders in flight. View of pilot in cockpit of a Whitley bomber. Formations of fighter aircraft in flight overhead. View from inside an aircraft as paratroopers exit through a side door. Sky filled with paratroopers in chutes descending. (Note: This Allied thrust into Holland to launch a drive around the German Siegfried Line was known as the Allied joint American-British "Operation Market Garden," which took place 17 to 25 September 1944, the 7 days referred to by the film Narrator. )
Allied forces raid the coast of Normandy in France on the D-Day invasion during World War II. United States Army paratroopers board transport planes and gliders to land on enemy areas. Infantry soldiers prepare to reach for aid of paratroopers. Armada of Allied warships, boats and landing crafts sail in sea to reach the coast. Guns on ships fire shells at the coast. Fired empty shells on the ships. Allied bombers raid Nazi air bases and headquarters in Normandy. Nazi German warships in a canal destroyed by Allied bombers.
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