THE 1st AIRBORNE DIVISION IN ACTION ON THE NEDER RIJN WEST OF ARNHEM [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: THE 1st AIRBORNE DIVISION IN ACTION ON THE NEDER RIJN WEST OF ARNHEM [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 168-2
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  • Description: On September 17th, American Dakotas drop the 1st Parachute Brigade over Renkum Heath. Paratroopers regroup and unload a container carrying carrying sten-guns and Bren ammunition. The name 'Sinderhoeve'is inscribed on the side of a Dutch cottage. Stirlings drop supplies; glider pilots recover a pannier containing 6-pounder ammunition. Next day, 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment troops take cover from snipers on the main Utrecht-Arnhem road. The battalion continues its advance towards Oosterbeek and Arnhem. On September 19th, Stirlings drop supplies. Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS prisoners, including teenagers and middle-aged men, are assembled on the Hartenstein Hotel's tennis court. Dutch underground workers arrive at the hotel. Major-General Urquhart, 1st Airborne Division's commander, confers with his chief of staff, Lieutenant-Colonel Mackenzie, on the Hotel Terrace. A Glider Regiment officer chats to the Dutchmen. 1st Light Regiment gunners enter Oosterbeek with their 17-pounder gun and tractor. A Para Sergeant lights a cigarette for a Luftwaffe girl telephonist. The 10th Parachute Battalion is seen in action near the Hartenstein on the division's north-east perimeter. Dakotas drop more supplies. A 1st Borderers three-inch mortar team fires several rounds.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-09-17
  • Production Country: GB
  • 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: Urquhart, Robert Elliott 'Roy' (person) AP.A & Airborne Corps 1 (regiment/service) Royal Air Force (regiment/service) British Army, Bde, Airlanding, 1 (regiment/service) British Army, Border Regiment (regiment/service) British Army, Bde, Parachute, 1 (regiment/service) British Army, Bde, Parachute, 4 (regiment/service) British Army, Div, Airborne, 1 (regiment/service) British Army, Glider Regiment (regiment/service) British Army, Parachute Regiment, 3rd Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Parachute Regiment, 10th Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service) Royal Air Force (regiment/service) Royal Netherlands Army & PAN [Dutch resistance] (regiment/service) United States Army Air Forces (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Short Stirling (object name) aircraft, United States - transport: Douglas C-47 Dakota (object name) combat, Allied - airborne attack (object name) combat, Allied - mortar bombardment (object name) operations, British military - routine: digging in (object name) intelligence, military, Allied - briefing (object name) prisoners of war, German - reception (object name) signs, military and civilian (object name) society, Allied military - friendship: fraternisation (object name) supplies, Allied, movement [fa] - misc: para-drop (object name) transport, British military - prime mover: Morris Quad 4x4 tractor (object name) weapons, British - gun [AT]: 6 pounder (object name) weapons, British - gun [AT]: 17 pounder (object name) weapons, British - mortar: 3 inch (object name) weapons, British - smallarm: Sten gun (object name) weapons, British - smallarm: Vickers medium machine gun (object name) Operation Garden 1944, Operation Market Garden 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event) Netherlands & Oosterbeek (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 365 ft; Running time: 4 mins
  • Notes: Note: sequences showing 10th Para Battalion and 1st Borderers filmed between 19th and 23rd September (?). Waffen-SS prisoners seen here probably belonged to 9th SS-Panzer-Division 'Hohenstaufen' or Sturmbannfuhrer Krafft's SS Panzer grenadier Training and reserve Battalion. As seen here, at least one 17-pounder gun survived the glider landings. See with A70 160-1, 5 and 6, 166-2, 168-1 and 169-5 and 6. Remarks: excellent shots throughout; the varied reactions of the German prisoners in the Hartenstein's tennis court to their captors are worth noting as the strain shown on the face of the commander of the 1st Borderers mortar team. Documentation/associated material: bibliography - 'A Bridge Too Far' by C Ryan, C Hibbert's 'The Battle of Arnhem', 'Arnhem' by Barry Gregory, 'Arnhem: A Case Study' by Maurice Tugwell and Arnhem September 1944' published in 1969 by Gemeentearchief Arnhem.
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