AIRBORNE CROSSING OF THE RHINE Part 2

Description

Summary: Excellent AVs, bombing city; flak and explosions at night. LSs, CUs, gliders lined up; airborne troops entering planes; taking off. CUs, harnessing US airborne troopers, entering C-46 and C-47 cargo planes; plane take off. AVs, gliders in the air, C-46s and C-47s in the air. CU, paratroopers jumping from C-46, sky filled with parachutes. LS, C-46 exploding as it hits the ground. MSs, gliders landing Basel; one cracking up. AVs, B-24s dropping supplies. V-1 BOMBS.: Antwerp, Belgium. 03/1945. Radar device on camouflaged installation. LS, 90mm gun firing. Shot of V-1 bomb in flight. Shells bursting around V-1. Direct hit on one of the V- bombs, destroyed by a shell from 90mm gun. Another one is also destroyed. HSs, ruins of buildings caused by V-1s. Excellent scenes, wounded are removed from debris. Short scene, and arm of a victim protrudes from the rubble. Rescue workers remove a young child from wreckage and hand her to person in truck. Pan, demolished docks. Damaged V-1 bomb falling and exploding near AA installation. V-bomb dropping to earth and exploding. Cut-ins, 90mm battery in action. Follow shot, buzz bomb in flight. Night shots, explosion of bomb.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities