D-Day Minus One Reel-2

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keywords: wwii, european theater, d-day invasion, 82nd airborne division, 101st airborne division, paratroopers, glider landings

Synopsis: C-47 Transport Planes in flight loaded with paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne, paratroopers make their drops over France, gliders landing behind German lines as naval guns of the Allied invasion fleet bombard the Normandy beachheads...(read more)

Date: 1944
Duration: 00:06:50
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: England, France

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D-Day Minus One Reel-2

D-Day Minus One Reel-2

Footage of C-47 planes loaded with paratroopers of the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions in flight. Invasion markings visible on C-47 aircraft. Paratroopers given orders to stand-up and hook-up and prepare to jump. Paratroopers jumping from Douglas C-47 Skytrain planes over France and landing behind German lines on D-Day minus one. Shows gliders landing in France behind German lines in the early morning darkness on D-Day. Shows firing of naval guns as ships of the Allied invasion fleet bombarded the Normandy beachheads.

Low aerial view of second wave of gliders and planes waiting for take-off. Planes pulling gliders take-off. Shows Allied plane hit by German anti-aircraft fire crashing into the ocean and exploding into a ball of fire. Shows fields flooded by Germans to hinder glider landing.

Shows interior of glider as pilot is given order to "cut loose" from tow plane. Shows Allied troops rushing from glider after landing. Shows crashed and damaged gliders. French road sig reads "Ste Marie-Du-Mont and Carentan". Shows two American soldiers riding in a German SdKfz 2 Ketterkrad (Kleines Kettenkraftrad HK 101), a special motorcycle, track-type vehicle.