WWII - Color, 1945: Soldiers on Patrol; Paratrooper Preparations; Gliders; Parachutist Descending

WWII - Color, 1945: Soldiers on Patrol; Paratrooper Preparations; Gliders; Parachutist DescendingSoldiers out of large tents & gather parachutes or packs from trailer, walk past camera. MCUs. 10:35:01 Troops in edge of forest helped on w/ parachutes; looking at pistols & rifles. CU pistol w/ woman’s picture taped to handle. Men loading weapons in shady woods; fitting knives to ankles, strapping & tying. 10:37:22 Patrol moving thru woods & brush past camera. Resting at base of tree, eating bread & rations, smoking. 10:38:52 Advancing crouched; drinking from canteen. 10:39:22 Man in side door of C-47 airplane gestures & airborne troops board. View from inside of men loading. MCU. GOOD. 10:40:59 Man in doorway & jumps (staged). Then over-exposed. 10:41:40 Planes taking off past camera & overhead, P-38 landing (over-exposed). 10:42:11 Medic putting first-aid kit over shoulder, preparing medical equipment, splints into canvas bags & rolling tightly into large tarp & securing w/ straps. 10:44:34 Soldier w/ field telephone in metal backpack case. Men on tround w/ transmitting equipment & radio operator using telegraph key as man cranks generator . MCU. 10:45:24 Men preparing communications kit of drums of wire & field telephone & rolling in tarpaulin. 10:46:37 Soldiers firing machine guns from pile of dirt. Spraying bullets. 10:47:13 Five twin-engine planes overhead & equipment dropped by parachute, landing on field w/ paratroopers. 10:47:59 MCU Aerial of C-47 w/ W6 on nose 10:48:11 Field w/ stacks of jerry cans, C-47s taxiing behind. 10:48:58 Aerial over heavily damaged city. 10:49:05 Soldiers (English ?) boarding C-47 w/ tail marking F 2100926. 10:49:20 View from glider nose towed behind C-47 low over city, over countryside w/ two rope visible seen from behind pilot. Aerial shots of other gliders being towed. 10:50:36 Black (not useful) 10:50:50 Men out of plane & CU view up to parachute opening w/ face visible in ECU; hand guiding straps. WW2; USAAF Daily Life; NOTE: Good color & well shot.