US Army History: Pentomic 101st (101st Airborne Division R2 of 3

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk US Army History: Pentomic 101st (101st Airborne Division R2 of 3 Troops fighting in fog & mist / smoke. Navy & aerial across English Channel; battleship barrage; men down nets; rockets fired; landing craft to beach, men off & falling; fighting on land w/ machine guns, automatic rifles, street fighting, recoilless rifles. mortars fired. 02:09:06 German prisoners of war running along road, marched. 02:09:15 Ceremony around monument in Carentan, France 20Jun44, townspeople & children present flowers. Shaking hands, kisses. 02:09:40 England & preparation for Operation Market Basket w/ 82nd viewing models on map; loading planes, taking off, gliders pulled by C-47s over English channel. 101st bailing out, descending beside haystack, gliders land, plane noses over, Dutch women w/ maps; boys in wagons given infantry ride. Officers & others in jeeps, locals waving / greeting. 02:11:55 Germans firing, heavy artillery, explosions, snipers, machine guns in farmyard. Wet, muddy Holland fields, jeep pulled. Eindhoven w/ buildings burning, GI looks at body by destroyed artillery. Arnheim, MPs watching German POWs. 02:13:09 Infantry issued grenades, bullets, loading rifles, boarding trucks. Night column of rucks. Germans attack in daytime, burning US equipment. Bastogne w/ refugees in snow, men dig in & blizzard winds w/ snow; soldiers in blankets wrapped around, fighting in snowy fields. Bodies in deep snow; machine guns set up on ditch banks. 02:14:59 Night & artillery firing; rockets fired. Infantry sharpshooting from field. 02:15:20 Religious service. Formation of Allied bombers overhead & low C-47s dropping supplies. 02:16:05 Interior of plane & dropping equipment over snowy countryside. Ground shot of parachutes descending & retrieved. Gliders on snowfield, jeeps unloaded. Crates unpacked. 02;16:45 Night artillery firing w/ tracers; flame thrower. 02:16:58 Day & soldiers thru village, fighting, burning tank, street fighting & from building. WW2; Unit History; Military Documentary; Recruiting Propaganda; Fighting; Battles; NOTE: Mar56 Reorganization Day Ceremonies as 101st AB Division became Army’s first potential nuclear equipped, long range fire brigade. Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk