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| keywords: wwii, world war ii, combat, airborne assault, normandy invasion |
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| Soldiers issued new equipment including hand grenades. To kill time jazz band plays, men doing calisthenics, and playing volleyball. Men relaxing, reading letters and writing, checking over and working on knives and guns, attaching bayonets. men painting invasion marking on C-47. men receiving allotment of invasion type currency. men attaching the para-paks to underside of fuselage of C-47. nose section of C-47, named, "Mary Louise". men loading trucks and equipment on LST. men of the 101st Airborne Infantry Division loading into LST. D-Day minus one showing officers briefing pilots. Religious services being held for the paratroopers. Troop Carrier Groups and 101st and 82nd Airborne have their final inspection. General Eisenhower visiting with the Airborne Paratroopers. Paratroopers march across airfield to their aircraft. Parapacks attached to C-47 is checked. Shows American Indian members of the 101st Airborne with “Mohawk style haircuts” and putting “war paint” on face. Men being read message from Supreme Commander prior to boarding aircraft. Paratroopers putting on life vests and American Indian paratroopers checking packs and gear. Jump master gives each paratrooper a final check before boarding aircraft. 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 aircraft, “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. Flashes of fire from night barrage of naval guns fired by invasion fleet on D-Day, invasion of France, in WWII. Martin B-26 Marauder bombers blast the German coastal defenses ahead of the invasion troops. Formation of B-26 planes over France, bomb bay camera scenes showing bombs descending, ground explosions of bombs striking targets. LST Landing Ships on way to Normandy beachhead. Troops wading ashore from LST. Formation of B-26 Marauder bombers in next phase, CU of bombs released from bomb bay, CU of bombers dropping bombs and ground explosions. Shows P-51 Mustang fighter planes strafing ground targets, large explosion resulting from strafing of railroad cars and other targets. Footage of U.S. M4 artillery tractors moving off beachhead followed by Infantry troops. Back in England an aerial view of large airfield shows C-47 tow aircraft and Waco CG-4 and Airspeed Horsa type gliders being readied for mission. Shows troops marching across airfield to gliders. CU of British 6th Airborne insignia on shoulder of British paratrooper. British 6th Airborne Division paratroopers climbing into gliders. CU of British Horsa Glider being towed down runway. CU of C-47 Dakota (RAF designation) tow plane of the RAF 38th Group and British Airspeed Horsa Glider take-off. Footage of C-47 tow aircraft towing gliders crossing the English Channel with fighter escort to landing zones during the Normandy invasion in WWII. German anti-aircraft fire downs Allied plane, plane crashes into the sea. Air-to-air shot of British Airspeed Horsa glider in flight. Aerial view of area flooded by the Germans. Gliders are cut loose from tow planes, various scenes of gliders in glide paths to landing. Shows one glider landing in flooded area. Shows stakes or poles mounted in field as traps against glider landings. Shows troops exiting Airspeed Horsa glider. Scenes of the Allied invasion forces firing artillery, tanks firing, loading and firing of mortars. Paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions advancing into towns such as "Saint Marcouf", "Ste Marie-Du-Mont", "Carentan", "Notorious". The 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions received a commendation from the Commanding General. Two paratroopers riding in a German Kettenkrad all terrain vehicle (German motorcycle tank), another paratrooper riding a horse. Two soldiers in a German Kettenkrad towing a small trailer. German prisoner with hands on head escorted by two U.S. soldiers. Shows gliders that were damaged by small arms fire, wrecked on landing in Normandy, or destroyed by German cannon fire. Paratroopers on parade. Reviewing Officers: General Eisenhower, two-star general, 3-star general, and one-star general reviewing paratroopers. Troops passing in review. |
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