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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220989-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1944
Country: Belgium,England,Luxembourg UNITED KINGDOM,Luxemburg Holland,Netherlands
Location: arnhem
TC Begins: 02:06:03
TC Ends: 02:15:38
Duration: 00:09:35
An Army Out Of The Skies No. 180 Rel. 16Oct44 per BUND. Pan across field of RAF fighter planes and gliders. AV runway w/ fighters and gliders. Vehicles loaded onto transport plane; paratroopers prepare. Vars US and British RAF gliders and transports towed into air. Gliders in flight above. AVs gliders and transports in formation w/ fighter guard over North Sea c16Sep44. 02:10:13 Belgian civilians watch Allied gliders and fighters fly over town towards Dutch border. Paratroopers out of transports; AVs over field; paratroopers land near Arnhem. Gun positions established, mortars and machine guns fired. AV gliders landed in field in Arnhem, some damaged. 02:12:36 Glider troops w/ tanks and guns move to support paratroopers; pass bullet-ridden car w/ body. PoW guarded. Casualty station, wounded on stretcher. Dutch Underground Army troops; CU ‘Oranje’ armband. Group of captured German soldiers, many young, some w/ SS lapel. Allies retreat; troops climb across rubbled bridge; move across open fields. Deserted railway station, ‘Roelgen Rs’ on sign. Troops enter town; German PoWs move along road on horse and cart and bicycles. 02:14:48 Crowds in Luxembourg cheer Prince Felix in military uniform w/ flag following liberation. Nazi flag burned. Good. WWII; WW2;