Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in Massachusetts during World War II. Queen Wilhelmina and other officers walk past lined up troops. Soldiers pass in review. Queen Wilhelmina reviews passing troops from stand.
Early days of Operation Market Garden in Nijmegen, Holland, Netherlands during World war II. Animated map of France, Belgium, and Netherlands. Allied transport and resupply aircraft in flight over clouds. Aerial view of Nijmegen Netherlands. Allied parachutes carrying supplies floating toward ground. The aircraft drop supplies in the south of Nijmegen. First Allied Airborne Army troops arrive by parachutes and gliders. The parachutists jump from the aircraft and descend towards the land. Unusual scene from camera strapped to the chest of a paratrooper. Shows view upon first jumping, and then view from paratrooper in sky descending and surrounded by other paratroopers with aircraft overhead and ground nearing below. U.S. aircraft parked on a field. The sky if filled with parachutists who are landing. German antiaircraft fire targets Allied planes. An Allied aircraft plunges toward the earth and crashes with a fireball. The Allied troops advance. Explosion in the foreground due to bombing. The aircraft drops bombs. Smoke raises in the foreground due to the bombardment. Gliders in flight. British 1st Airborne Division soldiers advance, engaging in Battle of Arnhem.
Preparations for Operation Market Garden. Aerial view of British airfield. Allied troops and equipment being prepared for flight. British crews towing gliders. British soldiers standing nearby. Men loading artillery and other equipment into gliders. A British bomber taking off from an airfield, towing a glider. Groups of Allied bombers in flight. View of Allied gliders that have landed (some crashed) all over a large field. German soldiers riding a motorcycle with sidecar. A German soldier leaps from the motorcycle as it's coming to a stop. They take cover. German troops firing from German Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) assault guns at the Allied forces that have landed. Wreckage of numerous crashed Allied gliders in field. Interior of a crashed British glider. German troops recover a Jeep from the wreckage of a glider. German soldiers drive a seized Jeep. German Abwehr soldiers wearing leaves for camouflage. Soldiers standing nearby. Some of the soldiers aboard a camouflaged tank advancing on the battlefield. A German tank passes by the wreckage of an Allied plane wing hanging from a tree. An Allied parachute hanging from a tree. Captured Allied pilots (of the 1st Canadian Parachute Regiment) raise their hands as they’re led away as prisoners of war. German troops escort Allied POW soldiers. Captured Allied soldiers show a map to German officer. The sleeve patch of a captured Canadian soldier reads: '1st Canadian Parachute Regiment'. An insignia of the same. A captured pilot with eye bandage. Captured Allied troops are led out of a building. Soldiers aboard tanks advancing on a battlefield. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment. A wrecked airplane on a field. Soldiers seated near a building. Insignias on the uniforms of the soldiers, including the United States 101st Airborne Division, 82nd Airborne Division, and the Para/Glider Infantry cap patch (patch with white glider and parachute on dark blue with red circle).
United States General (and future President) Dwight David Eisenhower visits the Netherlands. Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in the Netherlands with other military officers. Eisenhower reviews naval recruits standing at attention. Eisenhower looks through binoculars and observes Dutch Army soldiers performing drills and firing guns in training exercises. Army soldiers of the Netherlands climb barricades and perform other drills while practicing. Exteriors of Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, Netherlands. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, welcome Dwight David Eisenhower and his wife Mamie Doud Eisenhower.
U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Holland during World War II, during Operation Market Garden. Soldiers aboard a jeep moving across a field. Other soldiers walking along the field with gliders aground in the background. United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator aircraft in flight overhead. Supplies are dropped from the aircraft. Jeeps loaded with U.S. Army soldiers move along a road past cheering civilians. A woman waves a large American flag, greeting the troops. (This is possibly the town of 't Zand.)
Former American war correspondents visit Amsterdam, Netherlands to mark the 25th anniversary of Allied invasion of Europe in World War II. A sign on a building reads 'Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky' (NH Collection Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky Dam 9, 1012 JS Amsterdam, Netherlands) in Amsterdam. Two correspondents carry a pink wreath with the Dutch flag as others follow them. Two men hold the wreath together as a “de Bijenkorf” truck pass by. The reporters place the wreath at the National Monument war memorial (Dam, 1012 JL Amsterdam, Netherlands) in Dam Square, designed by J.J.P. Oud, opposite the Hotel Krasnapolsky. A photographer takes photos of the event. Correspondents and their wives talking. A correspondent draws a sketch of the National Monument, its Obelisk visible in the drawing. The reporter draws the sketch of the National Monument from his notebook as some people watch him. The Obelisk of the National Monument near Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky.
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