Description: An AFPU jeep passes a battered German road sign as it enters Boxtel. Dutch civilians watch traffic from 152nd Infantry Brigade and 33rd Armoured Brigade - in the form of a White scout car and CMP 15-cwt truck and trailer from the 5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, a Hillman light utility car and Sherman tanks from the East Riding Yeomanry and the armoured brigade's HQ troop - head through the town to continue 51st (Highland) Division's advance along the Dommel river towards Vught and s'Hertogenbosch. A group of approximately 30 US, British and Polish airborne troops sheltered by the Dutch Underground after being cut off from 2nd Army's lines during Operation Market-Garden is seen eating, sipping mugs of tea, comparing captured German weapons (Luger and Walther PPK pistols), chatting to civilians and members of the Highland Division, posing for group portraits and boarding 3-ton lorries which will take them to GHQ; insignia on their uniforms and headgear identifies most of them as belonging to variously the 82nd US Airborne Division ("The Screaming Eagles"), 1st British Airborne Division's 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade and the Glider Pilot Regiment.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Watkins, R V (Production individual)
