WWII - 1945, AB Board Planes, Bapaume, France; Rhine Crossings; Gliders Arrive Brunnen, Germany

WWII - 1945, AB Board Planes, Bapaume, France; Rhine Crossings; Gliders Arrive Brunnen, Germany LS & MCUs & CUs Airborne boarding C47. Army trucks w/ paratroops pulling up to line of aircraft. 10:00:56 MCU Control tower; CU soldier talking into microphone. 10:01:31 LIB 4599. Slate: 24Mar45 Rhine Crossing. Camera Sherman. (Buderich, Germany?) 10:01:35 Soldiers walk in fog or smoke to edge of river, cross barbed wire fence; LS across river w/ amphibious LVT w/ gun turret arriving & onto bank; LVT returning into water w/ soldiers. 10:02:37 Slate: same. Roll 2. MS LVTs w/ machine gun into water; out of water. LS. 10:03:41 Slate: same Roll 2 Out of focus 20 sec.; landing craft to river bank, MS jeep backing in, leaving. 10:04:41 LIB 4638. Near Willich, Germany . Landing craft past, view from landing craft into bank. Artillery emplacement; pontoons placed for floating bridge. Landing craft to bank, door lowered & tank off. 10:06:14 Army truck past soldiers relaxing in sun against sandbagged emplacement, sign: MINES. CUs; MCU soldiers in trench overlooking river. CU tank down riverbank; another off landing craft. 10:07:13 Empty landing craft crossing river; landing craft w/ tank approaching bank, tank into water & up bank. 10:07:59 LIB 4640. Slate: 24Mar Camera R.B. Robertson Roll 1 1/2 mi - Brunen / Brunnen, Germany. 17th AB. 10:08:06 Glider in field w/ nose raised, men lift tail & prop up; other gliders behind. Jeep backed to trailer. Past barn & out lane as farm family watches. 10:09:00 German POWs w/ hands on head marched out of large brick warehouse. 10:09:06 Slate: cameraman R.D. Martin. 1/4 mile west of Brunen / Brunnen. 10:09:13 Soldiers laying under tail of glider. Glider landing into tree. 10:09:23 Soldiers along road next to field w/ gliders, jeeps & trailers w/ soldiers past on road. 10:09:36 Overhead MCU AB looking at aerial map. 10:09:51 Soldier w/ submachine gun, glider across farm field. Soldiers, jeeps leaving. MCU injured soldier and others resting by roadside. WW2; Airborne Operations; Prisoners of War Surrendering;