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Airborne Armies Join Big Attack On Germany
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Synopsis: From airfields on the continent and in England thousands of airborne troops strike in support of the Allied ground armies which are raging through central Germany...(read more)
- Date: 1945
- Duration: 00:02:44
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Europe, Central Germany
Airborne Armies Join Big Attack On Germany
From airfields on the continent and in England thousands of airborne troops prepare to strike in support of the Allied ground armies which are raging through central Germany. Veteran American and British parachute and glider borne veterans of the First Allied Airborne Army form the assault force. To speed the advances of Eisenhower's great army groups under Montgomery, Bradley and Devers fifteen hundred C-47 troop carrying planes are off. (Operation Varsity, a joint American-British airborne operation, largest in history)
From both sides of their big transports American paratroops spill out. Now gliders over the objective are cut loose by the tow plane pilots and land swiftly. Most come down safely but some crack-up on landing. Enemy anti-aircraft fire brings down a transport. But the attack continues. The airborne troopers quickly organize for the offensive. They advance on enemy positions in jeeps which landed with them striking to help complete the annihilation of the German armies.
Shot List:
00:08:01:16
U.S. Paratroopers board Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane.
00:08:13:05
Line of C-47s waiting to take-off, numerous planes take-off and shown in flight.
00:08:47:18
Paratroopers jump or "bail out" of planes as parachute canopies fill the sky from 1500 aircraft.
00:09:18:18
Glider pilot point-of-view (pov) of tow plane.
00:09:23:02
View of hand only, tow plane pilot pulls lever to cut loose invasion glider.
00:09:27:12
Shows safe landing of invasion glider followed by crash of another invasion glider.
00:09:51:06
Dramatic scene of C-47 transport aircraft crashing in huge fireball after being hit by German anti-aircraft fire.
- Related Titles:
- Military Newsreels: 1945 Issue 1
