Title:SCENES DURING 1ST AIRBORNE DIVISION'S FIRST AND SECOND DAYS IN ACTION WEST OF ARNHEM [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 168-1
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Summary: Scenes showing elements of 1st Airborne Division in action west of Arnhem at Wolfheze, Renkum and Oosterbeek.
Description: Short Stirlings towing Horsa gliders carrying elements of 1st Airlanding Brigade and 1st Airborne Division troops cross the Dutch coast over Schouwen island. Gliders land on Renkum Heath while American Dakotas drop the 1st Parachute Brigade near Heelsum. A jeep is unloaded from a dismantled Horsa. Paratroopers (1st Parachute Battalion ?) fraternise with Dutch civilians and move through the woods near Wolfheze. A wounded Waffen-SS trooper, elderly Wehrmacht conscripts, collaborators and Luftwaffe servicewomen are taken prisoner.Paratroopers have mugs of tea and guard prisoners. Medical personnel and wounded are seen inside an improvised field hospital in a suburban house at Wolfheze. On September 18th, a paratrooper guards 1st Airlanding Brigade HQ at Wolfheze; inside, Brigadier Hicks confers with his officers. 1st Recce Company men wait in jeeps to go into Arnhem. Two 'Phantom' signallers operate their radio set. Stirlings fly overhead to drop supplies. A Dutchman destroys a portrait of Goering. The 3rd Parachute Battalion advances along the main Utrecht-Arnhem road into Heelsum where prisoners are taken. German corpses, including those of Major-General Kussin and his driver, line the battalion's route into Oosterbeek. Casualties arrive at a dressing station set up outside Oosterbeek.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Walker (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Hicks (Brigadier) (person)
British Army, Bde, Airlanding, 1 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Parachute, 1 (regiment/service)
British Army, Parachute Regiment, 3rd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Phantom signallers ? (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - glider: Airspeed Horsa (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Short Stirling (object name)
aircraft, United States - transport: Douglas C-47 Dakota (object name)
casualties, German wounded (object name)
casualties, German dead - battlefield (object name)
celebrations, Dutch - liberation (object name)
combat, Allied - airborne attack (object name)
communications, British military - radio (object name)
medical, British military - emergency: field hospital (object name)
medical, British military - movement: stretcher (object name)
supplies, British, movement [FA] - misc (object name)
transport, United States military - light utility: jeep (object name)
weapons, British - gun [AT]: six-pounder (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Sten gun (object name)
Operation Market 1944, Operation Market Garden 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Netherlands & Oosterbeek (geography)
Netherlands & Renkum (geography)
Netherlands & Wolfheze (geography)
