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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250078-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1944
Country: England,France,United Kingdom,USA
Location: Normandy Preparations
TC Begins: 10:20:30
TC Ends: 10:28:17
Duration: 00:07:47
WWII - 1944, England, 82nd Airborne Preparations for D-Day. 30May-05Jun44 LS past barbed wire coils & sentry to 82nd Airborne Division men lined up outside hanger building; MS & CU as C-47 lands. Airborne Infantry at attention; receiving medals. Listening to one-star / Brigadier General James Gavin at microphone. 10:21:40 Men kneeling, praying in front of tent w/ Chaplain in entrance 10:22:17 Troops outdoors, receiving food & having last meal MCU smiling, waving, cheering. 10:22:52 Paratroops out of large hanger w/ gear, waiting, walking to army trucks & planes; waving & laughing. 10:23:48 Playing and posing for the camera. LS planes on runway. 10:25:01 Slate: Weiner ??Jun44. Invasion. Man putting papers in pack; MS talking & smoking. 10:26:08 30May44 Paratroopers getting life-vests, supplies, ammunition & grenades. Men strapping on parachutes. Gear laid out on ground. WW2; Europe; D-Day Invasion Preparations; Paratroopers;