AUSLANDISCHE FALLSCHIRMJÄGER UND LUFTLANDETRUPPEN : Teil D [Main Title]

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  • Title: AUSLANDISCHE FALLSCHIRMJÄGER UND LUFTLANDETRUPPEN : Teil D [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 903
  • Other titles: FOREIGN PARATROOPS AND AIRBORNE TROOPS : Part D [Translation]
  • Summary: Instructional film combines captured enemy film of British airborne training and actions in Normandy and at Arnhem with German film and commentary to suggest vulnerability of such Allied operations.
  • Description: Reel 1. "Allied action in Normandy." Map of Cotentin Peninsula shows where three British and US airborne divisions landed in June 1944. Captured British film shows paratroops training in Western Desert: briefing in tent, in battledress with 9mm Stens, cap badge and shoulder flash, packing containers, emplaning in DC-47s before take-off and mass jump. Combination of desert film and aerial views of DC-47s with Horsas suggests 6th Airborne Regiment's preparations for Normandy drop; German film records Horsas with Invasion stripes after landing, German counterattack, German soldier driving jeep out of captured Horsa, parachute caught in tree, first British prisoners, Waffen SS soldier examining captured British silk handkerchief map showing escape route to Switzerland, captured paratrooper of 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and (from North Africa) large group of captured US paratroopers, some wearing uniforms "tastelessly daubed" with pictures of naked women on the back, plus insignia of 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions. "Allied action in Holland." Aim of September 1944 operation is described over map of Arnhem area. Reel 2. Captured British film of preparations for Arnhem operation: Stirlings and Halifaxes with Hamilcar gliders, loading jeep into Horsa, preparations before take-off, in-flight views over North Sea and flooded Holland, gliders landing, jeep out of Horsa with cow nearby, paratroops dropping. Captured US and British film shows supporting push towards Nijmegen by US paratroops, and past signpost of Grave, Shermans of 2nd British Army. German film of Arnhem operation records Germans firing with all weapons against descending paratroops and planes which blaze and crash, reserves en route to Arnhem, German counterattacks in close quarter fighting, injured British on stretchers, British wireless operator in action (British film), and views of British dead and captured together with much equipment including parachutes which landed on middle of station. Commentary concludes: "That was the end of the 1st British Airborne Division at Arnhem".
  • Alternative Title: FOREIGN PARATROOPS AND AIRBORNE TROOPS : Part D [Translation]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: GWY 903
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 903
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: Filmgruppe des General der Flieger Ausbildung (Production sponsor) Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (Production sponsor)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: German Title language: German Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1414 ft; Running time: 16 mins
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