Title:1st AIRBORNE DIVISION FLIES INTO BATTLE IN SOUTHERN HOLLAND [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 169-6
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Summary:
Description: The opening sequences are shot from the cockpit of a No 46 Group RAF Dakota as it flies over East Anglia (?) towards southern Holland on September 17th. During the flight, an anonymous cameraman takes over briefly to film Sergeant Lewis (who gestures at the camera while sorting out his kit) together with RAF aircrew and signallers attached to the 1st Parachute Brigade in the interior of the aircraft. The following morning sees either the 1st Airlanding Brigade's Headquarters or the 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment's HQ Company in woods skirting the Arnhem-Utrecht railway line at Wolfheze; jeeps and their trailers and tents are scattered between slit-trenches under the pine trees. A corporal passes a message to a signaller who attempts to get into radio contact with other airborne units. Two signallers armed with a Lee-Enfield rifle and a Mark 5 Sten gun share the same trench. A paratrooper digs a slit trench among the trees near the railway line, which is covered by a Bren gunner. In the afternoon, RAF Stirlings and Dakotas release their Horsa gliders over landing zone 'S' at Reyerscamp.
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: Lewis, Mike (person)
Royal Air Force, Gp 46 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Airborne, 1 (regiment/service)
British Army, Allied Airborne Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Parachute Bde 1 (regiment/service)
British Army, 1st Airlanding Brigade (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Corps of Signals (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, United States - transport: Douglas C-47 Dakota & [British] (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Short Stirling (object name)
aircraft, British - glider: Airspeed Horsa (object name)
equipment, British - wireless (object name)
operations, British military - sortie: airborne landing (object name)
operations, British military - preparation: digging in (object name)
transport, Dutch civilian - rail (object name)
Operation Market 1944, Operation Market Garden 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Netherlands & Reyerscamp <Landing Zone 'S'> (geography)
