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D-Day Minus One

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

Synopsis: Tribute to the soldiers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and the 9th Troop Carrier Command and their critical role on June 5, 1944 that helped make the D-Day Normandy Invasion the following day a military success...(read more)

Date: 1944
Duration: 00:15:17
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: England, France

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D-Day Minus One

D-Day Minus One Reel-1

Images of Allied forces wading ashore from landing craft on D-Day June 6, 1944 during the Normandy invasion. Various scenes of "Shanty Town", the staging area in England for the men, equipment, and supplies that would be needed for the Normandy invasion. Shows a glider being removed from a shipping crate. Shipping crates used a "living quarters" for the soldiers. Soldiers having "mess" (eating) in a shipping crate. Soldiers getting a haircut in a barber shop located in a shipping crate.

Shows the "Atlantic Wall" an extensive system of coastal German fortifications built by Nazi Germany along the western coast of Europe. Scenes of large coastal gun emplacements. Animated map of the west coast of Europe. Shows the Allied forces Chiefs of Staff (Military Officers) planning the Normandy Invasion with wall map of Europe in BG. Animated map identifies the coast of Normandy as location for the landing of invasion forces.

Shows paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne loading into buses for transportation to English airfields. Scenes of English buses loaded with airborne troops en-route to secrete airfield in England. Activities of the Airborne troops as they wait to board planes on D-Day minus one. Shows soldier band called "Hot Lick Swingsters (Swingers)" playing, soldiers exercising, playing volleyball, reading and writing letters home. Shows "invasion markings" being painted on planes and gliders. French money is given to soldiers, soldiers cleaning their weapons. Scenes of soldiers at various church services. General Eisenhower arrives to speak with the soldiers of the 101st and 82nd Airborne before they board the invasion planes (aircraft). Shows line of "Pathfinder" paratroopers. Footage of the paratroopers of the 101st and 82nd Airborne marching to planes, putting on parachutes. Indians in the 101st Airborne put on "war paint". Early morning footage of the "Pathfinder" C-47 planes take off followed by dozens of other C-47 aircraft loaded with paratrooper.

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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.

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