FIRST ALLIED AIRBORNE ARMY — Part 2 | The Archive Project

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Description

Supplies are brought to an airfield in England in trucks. The bundles are attached to parachutes and loaded into B-24 bombers (converted into transport planes). The transports take off towing gliders. The gliders are released and the supply parachutes dropped over France.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Secretary of War

Series

Motion Picture Films

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Date

1944-01-01

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TRT

3:22

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