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Normandy Invasion: Airborne Assault Over France - Reels In HD: Reel-4
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keywords: wwii, european theater, normandy invasion, 101st airborne division, 82nd airborne division, paratroops, parachute, glider, c-47 transport aircraft
Synopsis: Paratroopers of the American 101st Airborne Division and 82nd Airborne Division begin their part of the mission in the Normandy Invasion as they enter European airspace via C-47 transport aircraft and troop gliders with scenes of mass parachute drops and night landings by gliders...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:05:57
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: England, France
Normandy Invasion: Airborne Assault Over France - Reels In HD: Reel-4
Paratroopers of the American 101st Airborne Division climb into Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) military transport planes. View from aircraft interior looking out at line of men moving forward to board aircraft. Cut to outside view, one paratrooper with British type leg pack of demolition supplies being assisted by other troopers into the aircraft. Shows 101st "Screaming Eagle" shoulder insignia on troopers.
This footage was shot at dusk, silhouettes of Pathfinder Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division and the 82nd Airborne Division marching across airfield and boarding aircraft. Shows the "serial" of three C-47 aircraft with recognition invasion markings or recognition invasion stripes carrying the Pathfinder Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division taking off. Shows "V formation" of the three "serials" in the first wave of pathfinder aircraft in flight. The second wave of three "serials in V formation" carried the Pathfinder Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division.
Shows hundreds of other C-47 transport planes moving into take-off position on runway ready for take-off 30-minutes after the pathfinder planes were airborne. Shows take-off and flight of C-47 troop transport planes with paratroopers of the airborne assault forces in the invasion of France in WWII. Interior of a C-47 plane, paratroopers ordered to stand up and hook-up. Interior shot of paratrooper jumping out doorway of C-47 aircraft. Ground-to-air view of hundreds of parachute canopies filling the sky.
Night footage of soldiers of a troop carrier group marching toward gliders to make unplanned and untrained glider landings at night. German Panzers moving into the peninsula made 100 glider loads of troops and anti-tanks guns essential. 0200 hour, time for gliders to go.
