GLIDERS TOW PLANES, ENGLAND AND HOLLAND ; PREPARING FOR GLIDER ATTACK ON HOLLAND, ALDERMASTON, ENGLAND Part 1

Description

Signal Corps 111 ADC 2320 ADC SOURCE: AFCF (M Codes) 2320 FILM: Arch & APC MP, 1002' ea Silent INV 1908, GLIDERS TOW PLANES, England and Holland; 18 Sept 44 (M-639) AVs taken from towed glider as gliders leave airfield in England. AVs, shadow of C-47 and glider as they fly over English countryside. AVs, gliders and C-47s fly over English Channel headed for Holland. AVs, Holland under flood waters caused by Germans opening dikes as they retreated. LS, several gliders land. INV 1912, PREPARING FOR GLIDER ATTACK ON HOLLAND, Aldermaston, England; 19 Sept 44 (M-644) MS, Gen Anthony C Mc Auliffe, 101st Airborne Div Deputy Commander near glider. LS, pan, C-47s warm up on airstrip. VS, parátroopers of the 101st Airborne Infantry get into gliders. LS, paratroopers with equipment in long line move across field and get into gliders. (All wear American flags sewn on their sleeves.) C-47s t owing gliders pass camera R-L. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35THAVE, LC1, NY ERB/ek Record Group 111 Accession Number III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities