Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-2055

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00:01:55 1.47	ALLIES PIERCE SIEGFRIED LINE ALLIES PUSH PAST SIEGFRIED LINE AS RUSSIANS PUSH TO THE ODER RIVER. HUGE ARMADA OF BOMBERS BOMB BERLIN. MAP SHOWS 4 RUSSIAN ARMIES WITH NAMES OF THEIR GENERALS PIERCING GERMAN LINES TO ODER RIVER ON GERMAN SOIL 40 MILES FROM BERLIN.
00:02:21 28	GERMAN SHELL BURSTS CLOSE TO CAMERA.
00:02:27 34	WORLD UNION LEADERS MEET BIG BEN IS SEEN ACROSS THAMES RIVER IN LONDON ON FOGGY DAY. SOME OF DELEGATES FROM TRADE UNIONS FROM 16 COUNTRIES ARRIVE BY CAR
00:03:28 95	MONTAGE DELEGATES SIT IN AUDITORIUM AND LISTEN TO LEADERS ON PODIUM.
00:03:57 124	TARGET BERLIN MONTAGE AMERICAN GROUND CREWS WORK ON ENGINES. TIRES AND POLISH GIANT BOMBERS, READYING THEM FOR MISSION.
00:04:28 155	GENERAL DOOLITTLE AND OTHERS SIT IN ON BRIEFING AT A GIANT WALL MAP. SMALLER MAPS ARE ROLLED OUT IN FRONT OF DOOLITTLE. ALL SIZE BOMBS ARE LOADED ONTO BOMBERS.
00:05:32 219	BOMBER PILOTS SIT IN BRIEFING. PILOTS & CREWS CLIMB INTO BOMBERS. MONTAGE BOMBERS TAKE OFF AT DOZENS OF AIRFIELDS. OFFICER FIRES FLARE INTO SKY FROM CONTROL TOWER.
00:07:14 321	BOMBERS IN COLUMN 200 MILES LONG FILL SKY, AS THEY FLY ABOVE THE CLOUDS. MONTAGE CREWS DON OXYGEN MASKS. OVER TARGET AREA THEY ARE GREETED WITH FLAK. AERIAL BOMBS DROP ON BERLIN
00:10:35 522	AIR-WAR ON GERMAN SUPPLY AMERICAN GROUND CREWS REMOVE SNOW COVERED TARPS FROM P-28 FIGHTER BOMBERS. OTHERS SWEEP SNOW OFF WINGS.
00:11:01 548	JEEP TOWS A CONVOY OF SLEDS WITH PILOTS SITTING ON THEM ARE SHUTTLED TO THEIR PLANES. PILOTS THROWS SNOW AT CAMERA AS THEY PASS. SLED ARRIVES TO PLANE & A PILOT GETS OFF. SLED CONTINUES ON TO THE OTHER PLANES.
00:11:39 586	P-38'S TAKE OFF FROM SNOW BOUND RUNWAYS. AERIAL MONTAGE PLANES STRAFE ENEMY SUPPLIES ON GROUND AS SEEN FROM PLANE'S CAMERA. AMMUNITION DUMP BLOWS UP, PLANE FLIES INTO RESULTING FLAMES
00:13:05 672	P-47 "THUNDERBOLT" COMING IN FOR LANDING SKIDS ON GROUND ICE AND CRASHES INTO ANOTHER IN RUNWAY. GROUND CREWS RUN OUT TO HELP.
00:13:31 698	WARTIME FASHIONS WARTIME HAT DESIGNS: FRENCH HAT DESIGNS FOR WOMEN MADE FROM WOOD SHAVINGS AND PAPER. FRENCH WOMEN HAT MAKERS USE WOOD SHAVINGS, STRAW AND PAPER, TO MAKE HATS. AUDIENCE OF WOMEN, MOSTLY RED CROSS WORKERS AND NURSES IN UNIFORM, WATCH MODEL SHOW HATS.
00:14:17 744	THE WOMEN SIT IN FRONT OF DRESSING ROOM MIRROR & TRY ON THE HATS. 4 UNIFORMED GIRLS MODEL THE PARIS HATS.
00:14:40 767	REFUGEE CHILDREN SOME OF THE 500 DUTCH CHILDREN BOARD TRAIN FOR 3 MONTH STAY IN ENGLAND.
00:14:55 782	CHILDREN REACH OUT FROM TRAIN WINDOW AT SOLDIERS WHO FILL THEIR CUPS WITH DRINKS. CHILDREN MAKE A GAME OUT OF SOLDIERS DE-LOUSING THEM WITH POWERED CHEMICAL.
00:15:21 808	DUTCH CHILDREN WEARING LIFE BELTS LOOK OUT ON ENGLISH CHANNEL FROM SHIP. CHILDREN WAVE FLAGS AS THEY DEBARK FROM SHIP IN ENGLAND
00:15:59 846	CHILDREN EAT IN LARGE DINING HALL. BOY SPOONS HIS FOOD, PAN TO HIS WOODEN SHOES. LARGE GROUP OF KIDS WAVE THEIR FLAGS AND YELL HAPPILY. THEY SING "LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY"
00:16:20 867	WESTERN ADVANCE HOUSE BY HOUSE MONTAGE ALLIES BOMBARD GERMAN POSITIONS WITH TANKS & ARTILLERY. BOMBS WHISTLING AND EXPLODING IN DISTANCE ARE SEEN AND HEARD. BOMBS EXPLODE IN MIDST OF TOWN.
00:17:17 924	TANK FIRES POINT BLANK INTO BUILDING. GIS FOLLOW TANKS CAUTIOUSLY, INTO DEVASTATED VILLAGE OF OVERHOFEN. GI KNEELS ON ONE KNEE & FIRES RIFLE FROM BEHIND TANK. GIS FIGHT HOUSE-TO-HOUSE
00:18:35 1002	WOUNDED GI BEING HELPED TO WALK BY 2 BUDDIES, SUDDENLY COLLAPSES.
00:19:25 1052	TWO GERMANS EMERGE FROM CELLAR WITH HANDS UP.
00:21:17 1164	DRESDEN BLASTED DRESDEN IS DEVASTATED BY BRITISH BOMBERS USING INCENDIARIES AND BOMBS. SKY FILLED WITH BRITISH BOMBERS. AERIAL MONTAGE BRIGHT FLASHES AND FIRES FROM EXPLODING BOMBS AND INCENDIARIES AS 800 BOMBERS DEVASTATE DRESDEN.
00:22:42 1249	MONTAGE 1350 AMERICAN BOMBERS OF 8TH AIR FORCE, FORM SPECTACULAR LONG VAPOR TRAILS AS THEY FLY TO TARGET. AERIAL BOMBS DROP ON DRESDEN DURING DAYLIGHT RAID.
00:23:55 1322	FLOODS ON THE SEINE WOMAN STANDS ON HIGH PORCH WITH FLOOD WATERS ALMOST TOUCHING HER FEET. MONTAGE FLOODED TOWNS & INDUSTRIAL AREAS.
00:24:38 1365	SMALL BOATS ARE PILED AGAINST A BRIDGE.
00:24:58 1385	BACKS OF MEN & WOMEN LEANING OVER A BRIDGE RAILING LOOKING DOWN AT FLOOD WATERS.
00:25:03 1390	DEGAULLE DECORATES AMERICANS GENERAL DEGAULLE IS MET AT HIS LIMO BY SMALL GIRLS BEARING FLOWERS. HE BENDS DOWN FOR KISS AS HE ARRIVES AT WAR-TORN CATHEDRAL IN STRAUSBERG, WHERE HE HEARS MASS WITH OTHER GENERALS.
00:26:04 1451	CROWDS ON SIDELINES WAVE AND CHEER AS DEGAULLE DECORATES FRENCH SOLDIERS IN OUTSIDE CEREMONY
00:26:25 1472	DEGAULLE DECORATES AMERICAN SOLDIERS. HE GIVES GENERAL JACOB DEVERS THE LEGION OF HONOR, KISSES HIM ON BOTH CHEEKS. U.S. ARMY BAND, MARCHES.
00:27:05 1512	ATHENS ACCLAIMS CHURCHILL AERIAL ATHENS CITYSCAPE. CHURCHILL, IN UNIFORM, SPORTS HIS FAMOUS CIGAR. GENERAL ALEXANDER, SCOUBY & BRITISH AMBASSADOR ARE THERE.
00:27:45 1552	GREAT THRONG OF 60,000 PEOPLE CHEER CHURCHILL.
00:28:01 1568	ALLIES DRIVE INTO RHINELAND CU WHEELS OF ARMY TRUCK DRIVES ON FLOODED ROAD, ACROSS BRIDGE. GIS CROUCH AS THEY RUN ACROSS BRIDGE.
00:28:41 1608	HUGE EXPLOSION AS DIVE BOMBER BOMBS GERMAN POSITION. GIS WALK OVER FOOT BRIDGE ERECTED BY ENGINEERS, TO CROSS STREAM UNDER HEAVY FIRE. SMOKE-MAKING MACHINE COVERS THE ADVANCE
00:29:59 1686	MONTAGE DEAD GERMAN SOLDIERS LITTER THE STREAM
00:30:20 1707	MONTAGE ALLIED TRAFFIC JAMS ROADS AS THEY REACH RHINE. BRITISH SOLDIERS FEED CANNON AS IT FIRES. SMOKE RISES AS BRITISH FIRE CONTINUOUSLY.
00:30:59 1746	LONG COLUMNS OF MARCHING GERMAN PRISONERS, SOME OF 10,000 CAPTURED BY CANADIANS. MONTAGE GERMAN REFUGEES FILL ROADS CARRYING CHILDREN & BELONGINGS
00:32:22 1829	CIVIL AFFAIRS IN GERMANY GERMAN GO BACK TO THEIR HOMES, NOW UNDER ALLIED CONTROL.
00:33:01 1868	U.S. CIVIL AFFAIRS OFFICER SHOWS GERMANS MAP CLEARLY DEFINING BOUNDARIES FOR A CURFEW. 2 GERMAN WOMEN SMILE AT CAMERA AS THEY WALK BY GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS
00:33:19 1886	GI SUPERVISES AS GERMAN LOADS FOODSTUFF ON CART FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
00:33:59 1926	BRITAIN'S JET PLANE JET FIGHTER DESIGNED BY U.S. & BRITISH TAKES OFF FOR TEST RUN.
00:34:44 1971	ALLIES SHARE RATIONS BRITISH SOLDIERS UNLOAD SACKS OF CIGARETTES & GOODIES FROM PLANE. U.S. GIS, GAVE 1 WEEK'S RATIONS, TO RUSSIAN SOLDIERS NOW LOCATED IN ENGLAND
00:35:24 2011	GIS ON TRUCK PASSES CIGARETTES TO RUSSIAN SOLDIERS, FROM TRUCK
00:35:43 2030	TARGET GERMANY GROUND CREWS LOOK TO SKY & COUNT BOMBERS RETURNING FROM MISSION. PLANES' CREWS EXIT PLANES AND MEET FOR BRIEFINGS.
00:36:49 2096	AERIAL MONTAGE FLYING FORTRESSES FLY OVER AND BOMB STENDAL, WITTENBURG, LUDWIGSLUST, NUREMBERG, ANSBACH, LUNEBURG, ULZEN, PFORCHEIM. DEFINITIVE BOMBING AND STRAFING FILM OF GERMAN CITIES.
00:43:30 2497	LEADERS VISIT WESTERN FRONT RUSSIAN GENERALS ARRIVE NEAR ULICH, GERMANY & ARE GREETED BY AMERICAN AND BRITISH GENERALS. THE RUSSIANS MEET WITH COUNTRYMEN WHO WERE FREED FROM NAZI PRISON CAMPS.
00:43:58 2525	WINSTON CHURCHILL ARRIVES AND IS GREETED BY FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY AND BROOK AND AMERICAN GENERAL SIMPSON. CHURCHILL WALKS THROUGH BARRICADES OF SIEGFRIED LINE WITH MONTGOMERY AND OTHERS
00:44:26 2553	CHURCHILL WALKS OVER TO AN ARTILLERY POSITION, WRITES HITLER'S NAME ON SHELL. SHELL IS FIRED AT GERMAN LINES. TROOPS CHEER.
00:44:46 2573	GENERAL EISENHOWER ARRIVES AND CHATS WITH SIMPSON AS THEY WALK THROUGH RUINS OF GERMAN CITY.
00:45:14 2601	U.S. SHIPS DOCK AT LE HARVE FILM OF GREAT SEAPORT OF LE HARVE BEFORE WWII. PAN
00:45:32 2619	MONTAGE COMPLETELY DESTROYED PORT OF LE HARVE WITH NO BUILDINGS STANDING, AS LEFT BY GERMANS WHEN THEY RETREATED. PAN. PAN OF DESTROYED CITY AS FRANCE TURNS TO ITS RECONSTRUCTION
00:46:05 2652	FRENCH LONGSHOREMEN UNLOAD 1ST OF 31 AMERICAN SHIPS AT LE HARVE PORT.
00:46:19 2666	AMERICANS HONORED IN HOLLAND MAJOR GENERAL LELAND S. HOBBS, COMMANDING GENERAL OF 30TH INFANTRY DIVISION IS HONORED AT SQUARE OF TOWN NAMED FOR HIS DIVISION "OLD HICKORYPLEIN"
00:47:18 2725	AMERICAN AIRMEN HELP BOY PIANIST 9 YEAR OLD. BLIND, JIMMY OSBORNE IS LIFTED INTO JEEP BY GI AND DRIVEN OFF FROM HOME IN ENGLAND.
00:47:44 2751	AIRMEN, WHO WERE ENTERTAINED BY JIMMY, GIVE HIM CHECK TO STUDY MUSIC IN AMERICA. JIMMY PLAYS FOR AIRMEN AT THEIR BASE AS THEY GATHER AROUND HIM AT THE PIANO. CHILD PRODIGY
00:48:35 2802	COLOGNE TAKEN AERIAL MONTAGE BRITISH & AMERICAN BOMBERS HAMMER COLOGNE.
00:49:40 2867	HUGE PUFF OF SMOKE AS A GERMAN "SCARECROW" WHICH IS MEANT TO LOOK LIKE AN EXPLODING PLANE, EXPLODES NEARBY
00:49:58 2885	MONTAGE AMERICAN 1ST ARMY TANKS AND ARTILLERY FIRE INTO COLOGNE.
00:50:18 2905	GIS LIE PRONE ON GROUND AND FIRE THEIR RIFLES. GI TRUCKS SPEED PASS BURNING GERMAN TANK OFF
00:50:43 2930	GI MORTAR CREW LOBS SHELLS INTO GERMAN POSITIONS IN CITY OF COLOGNE AS ADVANCING TROOPS RIDE & WALK BY HARDLY PAYING ATTENTION.
00:51:03 2950	MONTAGE GI INFANTRYMEN DOWN STREET WITH SCORCHED BUT STILL STANDING APARTMENT HOUSES IN COLOGNE. RUBBLE PILES IN STREETS AS GIS PRESS FORWARD UNDER FIRE. GIS INCH ALONG SIDE OF BUILDING
00:51:50 2997	WOUNDED GERMAN CLIMBS OUT OF TANK UNDER GI FIRE. CAMERAMEN TRIES TO KEEP CAMERA STEADY AS TANK IS HIT AND GERMAN CRAWLS AWAY.
00:52:31 3038	GERMAN STAFF CAR MAKES A RUN FOR IT UNDER FIRE. GIS RUN IN ALL DIRECTIONS IN STREETS. BUILDING IS HIT BY GERMAN ARTILLERY, COLLAPSES.
00:54:36 3163	SHERMAN TANKS MOUNT ROCKETS BATTERY OF ROCKETS FIRE INTO SKY FROM ATOP SHERMAN TANK.
00:55:07 3194	CU GI SCREWS DETONATION CAP ON ROCKET TIP. ROCKETS ARE HAND LOADED INTO THE MANY ROCKET TUBES MOUNTED ON TANK. ROCKETS FIRE CONTINUOUSLY. ROCKETS FIRED AT NIGHT MAKE FOR SPECTACULAR SHOW.
00:55:48 3235	BENES LEAVES FOR HOMELAND PRESIDENT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA BENES ARRIVES BY LIMO AT ENGLISH AIRPORT FOR RIDE HOME AFTER YEARS IN EXILE.
00:56:32 3279	ALLIES DRIVE ON THOUSANDS OF GERMANS SURRENDER AFTER FIERCE FIGHTING, AS ALLIES PUSH INTO GERMANY. RHINE CROSSED. COLOGNE CATHEDRAL, THOUGH DAMAGED, STILL STANDS AS ALLIES MOVE IN. MAIN RAILROAD STATION'S UNIQUE ARCHITECTURE IS IN HOPELESS RUIN. PAN
00:57:19 3326	GREAT VON ZALEN BRIDGE ACROSS RHINE RIVER LIES IN RUIN. OLD CIVILIAN MAN SITS AMID RUBBLE AT STREETCAR STOP WITH SUITCASE IN FRONT OF HIM AS THOUGH STREETCAR WAS COMING. OTHER GERMAN CIVILIANS COME OUT OF HIDING.
00:57:39 3346	STREETCAR LIES AMID RUBBLE. DESTROYED STREETCAR.
00:58:03 3370	GERMAN CIVILIANS OUTSIDE CONCRETE AIR RAID SHELTER, NOW USED AS DORMITORY, PREPARE HUGE POT OF BROTH. THEY PEEL CABBAGE AND POTATOES INTO VAT. BROTH IS LADLED FROM HUGE POT INTO PAILS FOR DISTRIBUTION.
00:58:19 3386	GI FILLS LARGE MILK CANS WITH WATER DUE TO DESTRUCTION OF WATER MAIN BY RETREATING GERMANS.
00:58:22 3389	LITTLE BOY STOOPS OVER AND DRINKS FROM SMALL LEAK IN WATER HOSE. MONTAGE WOMEN WASH CLOTHING IN LARGE WASH TUBS.
00:58:39 3406	MONTAGE PEOPLE OF COLOGNE CARRY LARGE CARTONS OF FOOD THEY HID FROM GERMAN TROOPS, PILE IT IN AREA TO SHARE WITH OTHERS
00:59:02 3429	GENERAL KURT VON TROP, GERMAN LEADER IN BATTLE OF BULGE, IS TAKEN BY JEEP TO REAR LINES.
00:59:20 3447	A GERMAN "VOLKSSTEN", CIVILIANS LEFT BEHIND TO DEFEND BASTOGNE AGAINST ALLIES, POSES FOR PHOTO. CIVILIANS TAKE GI TO HIDING PLACE OF WEAPONS WHICH WERE NEVER USED AGAINST ALLIES.
01:00:06 3493	AN ARMY OF POLES, CZECHS, FRENCH, RUSSIAN & YUGOSLAVS, MARCH TO ALLIED LINE AFTER ESCAPING FROM NAZI CAMPS. SOME OF THEM ILL OTHERS STILL SUFFERING FROM WOUNDS AND ALL HUNGRY, ILL, MISERABLY CLAD AND COLD. CU FACES TELL THE STORY.
01:00:43 3530	EX-PRISONER WRAPS HIS BARE FOOT IN CLOTH. GI HELPS A MAN WALK, ANOTHER IS OFFERED CRUTCH. CIGARETTES WERE PASSED OUT AS WAS FOOD AND CLOTHING.
01:01:07 3554	GI OPENS BARBED WIRE ENTRANCE TO CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR RUSSIAN FORCED LABOR AND LETS OUT WOMEN HELD THERE. SMILING WOMEN ARE GREETED BY GIS.
01:01:42 3589	DEAD GERMAN SOLDIER ON GROUND OUTSIDE CONCENTRATION CAMP.
01:01:46 3593	MAP SHOWS ALLIED PENETRATION INTO GERMANY TO RHINE
01:02:23 3630	GERMAN CIVILIAN WAVES WHITE FLAG FROM APARTMENT WINDOW IN TOWN OF BAD GODESBERG. GIS RUN THROUGH STREETS AND FIRE AT GERMAN SNIPERS.
01:03:14 3681	MONTAGE ARMED GI WALKS ALONGSIDE THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS MARCHING TO REAR.
01:03:28 3695	MONTAGE RHINE BRIDGES DESTROYED BY RETREATING GERMANS. GIS LOOK AT RAMAGEN BRIDGE, LEFT STANDING BY MISTAKE, IN THE DISTANCE. NAZI PLANES ATTACK IN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY IT.
01:04:05 3732	MONTAGE TROOPS, TANKS, TRUCKS AND EQUIPMENT CROSS BRIDGE TO ESTABLISH BRIDGEHEAD ON OTHER SIDE.
01:05:23 3810	BASTOGNE DEFENDERS HONORED BASTOGNE FALLS TO ALLIES. ALLIES CROSS RHINE AFTER REMAGEN BRIDGE IS LEFT STANDING BY GERMAN BLUNDER. 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION MARCH IN PARADE AS THEY ARE HONORED BY GENERAL EISENHOWER, MAJOR GENERAL TAYLOR, COMMANDER OF 101ST, & MANY OTHERS.
01:06:14 3861	ACTRESS MARLENE DIETRICH, IN HELMET & UNIFORM, IS ALSO ON REVIEWING PLATFORM.
01:06:41 3888	22,000 POUND "SUPER" BLOCKBUSTER 12,000 POUND "EARTHQUAKE" BOMB WHICH SANK GERMAN BATTLESHIP "TORPITZ" IS CARRIED TO BOMBER ON FLATBED TRUCK
01:06:53 3900	DRAWING SHOWS THE 12,000 POUND "EARTHQUAKE" BOMB BEING DWARFED BY THE NEW 22,000 POUNDER.
01:07:07 3914	AERIAL HUGE EXPLOSION IS SEEN AS THE NEW SUPER BOMB DESTROYS VITAL BRIDGE IN RHUR VALLEY.
01:07:37 3944	U.S. TROOPS ENTERTAIN EVACUEES BUS ARRIVES WITH SOME OF 500 YOUNG DUTCH REFUGEES AT CONVALESCENT CAMP IN ENGLAND. EACH YOUNGSTER HAS A SOLDIER COMRADE ASSIGNED.
01:08:20 3987	AFTER BEING HELPED FILL FOOD TRAYS BY THEIR GI SPONSOR, THE YOUNGSTERS EAT AT LONG TABLES.
01:08:37 4004	YOUNG DUTCH GIRL IS GIVEN HONOR OF AWARDING GI A PURPLE HEART. YOUNGSTERS EXAMINE A FLYING FORTRESS IN & OUT. GIS HAND OUT CANDY TO YOUNGSTERS AS THEY BOARD BUS.
01:09:21 4048	BRIDGEHEAD EXTENDED ALLIES DRIVE ON DESPITE REMAGEN SPAN COLLAPSE. ARMY WELDERS WORK DESPERATELY TO REPAIR TWISTED GIRDERS OF BRIDGE. GI LOOKS WITH BINOCULARS AT NAZI PLANES TRYING TO DESTROY BRIDGE.
01:10:34 4121	COLLAPSED BRIDGE LIES IN RHINE RIVER AFTER CAVING IN FROM THE ALLIED TRAFFIC.
01:10:36 4123	TWO GIS STRIP TO THEIR WAIST AND PLUNGE INTO RIVER TO SAVE MEN WHO WERE ON BRIDGE WHEN IT COLLAPSED. OTHER GIS WORK FEVERISHLY TO SAVE MEN IN WATER ALONG TWISTED WRECK OF THE SPAN.
01:12:31 4238	MONTAGE GI INJURED ARE TAKEN BY STRETCHER TO MANY AMBULANCES STANDING BY.
01:14:05 4332	DESTROYED CITY OF COBLENZ WHERE THERE WAS A SHARP BITTER FIGHT. VIEW AS SEEN BY TANKMAN AS HIS TANK ROLLS INTO BATTERED CITY. HIS CANNON FIRES.
01:14:37 4364	MONTAGE GIS CLIMB OVER RUBBLE AS THEY GO HOUSE TO HOUSE. GERMAN PRISONERS SIT ON GROUND WITH HANDS ON HEAD. PAN
01:16:47 4494	RHINE BARRIER SMASHED ELS BRITISH FIGHTERS PEEL OFF FOR STRAFING ATTACK ON GROUND TARGETS. AERIAL ROCKETS SPEED TOWARDS TARGET. AERIAL MONTAGE BOMBS FALL TOWARDS TARGETS.
01:18:11 4578	AERIAL SMOKE, FIRE AND EXPLOSIONS ARE SEEN OVER WURTZBURG, GERMANY
01:18:35 4602	MONTAGE ROW AFTER ROW OF BRITISH GLIDERS PREPARE TO TAKE OFF IN AERIAL ASSAULT. JEEP AND ARTILLERY ARE LOADED ONTO GLIDERS, FOLLOWED BY TROOPS. MONTAGE HUGE BOMBERS PULL GLIDERS INTO THE SKY
01:20:55 4742	BOMBER HAVING TROUBLE WITH ITS TREMENDOUS LOAD PEELS OFF AND CRASHES IN HUGE BALL OF FIRE.
01:21:55 4802	PLANE TOWS 2 GLIDERS WITH AMERICAN TROOPS ABOARD.
01:23:12 4879	GLIDER LANDS IN FIELD.
01:24:59 4986	MONTAGE AMPHIBIAN VEHICLES, LADEN WITH TROOPS, POUR ACROSS RHINE
01:25:49 5036	PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL, CIGAR IN MOUTH, CROSSES THE RHINE IN AMPHIBIAN VEHICLE. WITH HIM IS FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY & AMERICAN GENERALS. CHURCHILL CLIMBS OVER DEBRIS AT A BRIDGE.
01:26:33 5080	WITH GENERAL EISENHOWER AND MONTGOMERY NEAR HIM, CHURCHILL SITS AND WATCHES THE ACTION THROUGH BINOCULARS.