Air Army Invades Germany

Universal Newsreel Video 6 Air Army Invades Germany From the Pare Lorentz Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Army Public Domain Footage from archive.org, (1) "When the entire Rhine front explodes into action the First Allied Airborne Army takes flight for the Westphalian plains. From an observation post Gen. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill watch the sky trains roar by overhead. The drop area reached, thousands of chutes float to the ground from twin side-door C-46 carriers, while giant C-47 tow planes release their gliders. Despite damage the gliders land with their jeeps and other material. Shortly after, Nazi troops are marched in as captives, and this airborne invasion becomes one of the most successful in the history of warfare. Flail Tanks - The Canadian First Army uses huge tanks with heavy rotating chain beaters in front of them which explode any and all buried Nazi road mines." scenes of 1500 planes and gliders join in major invasion across the Rhine in the north, Churchill and Ike observe, parachutes from C-46 filling the sky with billowing parachutes, gliders land, plane crashes, 4000 soldiers taken as prisoners. (2) Coblenz Key t