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• GLIDER-BORNE PARATROOPERS EXERCISE, 22 APRIL 1944

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR COLOUR TRANSPARENCY COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Malindine E G (Capt)

  British paratroopers sitting in the fuselage of an aircraft while awaiting their order to jump.

• REBECCA-EUREKA Mk II SYSTEM [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Air Ministry (Production sponsor) 1943

  An instructional film shot in 16mm Kodachrome illustrating with the help of intertitles and live action footage the mode of operation for one of the early versions of the REBECCA/EUREKA system of airborne direction-finding equipment and ground-based...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE FLYING TRAINING COMMAND, 1940-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Airborne troops seated in an Airspeed Horsa of the Heavy Glider Conversion Unit at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, ready for take off.

• OPERATION 'MARKET GARDEN' (THE BATTLE FOR ARNHEM): 17 - 25 SEPTEMBER 1944

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Army Film and Photographic Unit

  Arnhem 17 - 25 September 1944: Four British paratroopers moving through a shell-damaged house in Oosterbeek to which they had retreated after being driven out of Arnhem.

• OPERATION 'MARKET GARDEN' (THE BATTLE FOR ARNHEM): 17 - 25 SEPTEMBER 1944

  part of "STAINFORTH A G C (CAPT)" (photographs)

  Arnhem 17 - 25 September 1944: An aerial view of a (General Aircraft) Hamilcar glider which has been unloaded on the landing zone near Arnhem. The Hamilcar was the largest glider in use with British Airborne forces; some 38 'went down' during Operation '...

• OPERATION 'MARKET GARDEN' (THE BATTLE FOR ARNHEM): 17 - 25 SEPTEMBER 1944

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Army Film and Photographic Unit

  Eindhoven 17 - 18 September 1944: The people of Eindhoven line the streets of the town to watch armoured vehicles of British XXX Corps pass through. The 101st (US) Airborne Division had captured the town on the previous day.

• THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945: THE ALLIED CAMPAIGN IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE JUNE 1944 - MAY 1945: THE BRITISH AIRBORNE DIVISION AT ARNHEM AND OOSTERBEEK IN HOLLAND

  part of "STAINFORTH A G C (CAPT)" (photographs)

  Aerial view of the bridge over the Neder Rijn, Arnhem; British troops and armoured vehicles are visible at the north end of the bridge. Had General Montgomery's ambitious scheme for seizing the Rhine bridges succeeded the war in Europe might have been...

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-45

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Airborne troops with a requistioned German truck during the landings east of the Rhine, 25 March 1945.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-45

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Airborne troops with a jeep and trailer during landings east of the Rhine, 25 March 1945.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-45

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit

  Airborne troops cross back over the Rhine in a captured German Kubelwagen car, 24 - 25 March 1945.