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.
Flooding in Arnhem Netherlands during World War II. A German soldier drives a motorcycle in the flooded waters. Water flowing with a few trees in the center. A high water marker with a reading nearly at the top of the meter. A damaged building in the flooded area.
Shovels handling ceremony in Holland during occupation of the Netherlands by German forces in World War 2. Newly recruited or conscripted Dutch young menstand in a formation during a ceremony as they become members of the Dutch Workers Service, as required by the German occupation. They receive shovels as symbols of their commitment to work for Holland. The uniformed Dutch workers shoulder their shovels and parade.
Allied Army Generals in Maastricht, Netherlands during World War II. Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Omar Bradley and U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Simpson at U.S. 9th Army Headquarters. They walk along a street.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War 2. A beach on the Philippine island of Mindanao. U.S. aircraft in flight over the coastline. Signal Officer Lieutenant Leon Tinnell works at the Signal Headquarters. He talks on the radio receiver. He radios a message to U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reporting on movement of Japanese troops. U.S. aircraft take off for a mission against the Japanese troops. They drop bombs on Japanese ships. Smoke from fire due to the explosions. A U.S. submarine near a battleship at sea. U.S. Navy sailors aboard the ship and the submarine. Wounded and sick officers and soldiers including Lt. Tinnell are transferred from the submarine onto the ship. Soldiers carry a comrade on a stretcher. Landing crafts approach an island in the Philippines. General MacArthur and Allied troops land at Leyte Island on October 20, 1944. They leave the crafts off shore and wade through the water towards the beach. Signal Corps officers record the event as General MacArthur and the others make their way inland.
Former American war correspondents arrive in the Netherlands on a tour of Europe 25 years after the Allied Invasion during World War II. A bus full of American correspondents and their wives on a Maarse and Kroon bus. The correspondents get off the bus and talk. The correspondents seated inside the bus. War correspondents visit the home of Dutch Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, the Soestdijk Palace (Amsterdamsestraatweg 1, 3744 AA Baarn, Netherlands), located in the small town of Baarn, Utrecht Province. The bus pulls up outside the Soestdijk Palace. The correspondents enter the building and meet prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, the Prince Consort of the Netherlands. Correspondents drink and talk together. They come out with Prince Bernhard and pose on the lawns. Correspondents pose outside the building. Prince Bernhard, wearing a white flower on his lapel, speaks to correspondents as photographers take pictures.
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