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Title:PARATROOPERS OF THE 1ST AIRBORNE DIVISION PREPARE FOR TAKE- OFF [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 160-5
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: Men serving with the 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment chat among themselves, exchange jokes and have their last cigarette before donning their parachute packs as C-47 Dakotas belonging to the 9th US Troop Carrier Command start their engines in preparation for the flight from Grantham, Lincolnshire, to drop zones west of Arnhem in southern Holland.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Lewis, C M (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Parachute Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Parachute Regiment (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Airborne, 1 (regiment/service)
AP.A & Allied Airborne Corps 1 (regiment/service)
United States Army Air Force, 9th Troop Carrier Command (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, United States - transport: Douglas C-47 Dakota (object name)
operations, British military - preparation (object name)
society, British military - sustenance: cigarettes (object name)
Operation Market 1944, Operation Market Garden 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK (geography)