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British soldiers stamp upon German flag and take German soldiers as prisoners in Hertogenbosch, Holland during World War II.

British soldiers fight German Army to liberate the city of Hertogenbosch in Holland from Nazi occupation during World War II. British soldiers throw a torn German flag from damaged church steeple on the ground and stamp upon it. Civilians return to the city after Allied take it over. German prisoners march under guard. Large number of surrendered German soldiers stands in an open ground near a machine gun.

Date: 1944, October 22
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056358
Allied Airborne Operation Market Garden during World War II

Opening scene shows some Allied gliders being towed over Holland during the joint American and British airborne Operation Market Garden. View from the air of wide areas flooded by the Germans to thwart Allied forces. Formations of American C-47 aircraft dropping paratroopers. Sky filled with paratroop chutes descending near Arnheim. Fairly closeup views of some troopers suspended under their parachutes. View from ground of troopers landing and running forward with weapons at the ready. Paratroopers landing near a haystack.Some make rough landings. Forward view from an American Waco CG-4A glider of the C-47 ahead, towing it. View from A C-47 of towed Waco glider behind it. View from the ground of gliders landing. One flips over, upside down. Troopers seen leaving a Waco glider and assembling on the ground. One glider noses over but falls back again. A tow plane is shot down and crashes in a huge explosion. Closeup of the burning wreckage. Different view of the crash site near some houses, with heavy plumes of dark smoke rising. Paratroopers advancing across a field. Local civilians gathered around an empty glider, examining it. Two paratroopers with a map asking two Dutch women for directions. The women each point in different directions. Paratroopers of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division assembling. The Screaming Eagle logos visible on their shoulders.

Date: 1944, September 17
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056361
British infantry and tanks push German Army back and free civilians from Nazi occupation in Holland, during World War II.

Allied forces free the civilians from Nazi occupation in Holland, during World War II. British infantrymen of the 9th Army and tanks advance in Holland and defeated German forces retreat. British artillery and tanks fire at the Nazis during a battle. Allied soldiers rescue civilians from the rubble of houses destroyed during battle. British tanks and flamethrowers attack German Army units. British Army and tanks advance on rubbled streets of a town in Holland.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056370
Civilians cheer as Allied jeeps towing equipment move along a road in Holland during World War II.

Allied troops in Holland during World War II Operation Market Garden. Jeeps towing equipment move along a road. Civilians cheer. Houses along the sides of a street. A sign board reads: 'Hertogenbosch, Nijmegen and Eindhoven'. British XXX Corps tanks roll through streets. Local spectators stand on both sides of the street. This town is Son, just north of Eindhoven

Date: 1944, September 19
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076960
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.

Date: 1944, September 23
Duration: 2 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076968
Explosion and fire in the city of Nijmegen, Holland, during World War II

Deserted street in Nijmegen, Holland during World War 2 Operation Market Garden. An explosion occurs at the end of the street. Camera moves to Mariënburgsestraat, to show a burning military armored vehicle, with flames spreading to adjacent building. Dense black smoke rises from the fire and a secondary explosion occurs. Camera view from the other side of the fire, showing the building now completely ablaze, with fire visible at every window. Camera switches back and forth between the burning armored vehicle and the building now completely consumed by the fire.

Date: 1944, September 22
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076969