101st Airborne WWII Footage - Market Garden
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- Real footage of the 101st Airborne Division which was taken just before and after landing on September 17th 1944 during Operation Market Garden. The best thing is, I've added notes to help identify what you are looking at!
You will see Gliders being loaded with 57mm Anti Tank guns for the 81st AA/AT battalion and the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment marching towards their planes. You will see the 1st Battalion of the 501st PIR landing near Castle Heeswijk, filmed from a B-17! Then it switches to Dropzone C where the 506th PIR is landing and forming up., you can even see Colonel Robert F. Sink! The video ends with the 506th crossing the Wilhelmina Canal in Son using the foot bridge created by the 326th Airborne Engineers after the road bridge was demolished by the Germans.
Chapters:
00:00 Gliders
02:29 502 PIR marching to planes
04:13 Flying to the DZ
04:35 DZ-A1 Heeswijk Castle -1/501 PIR
05:09 DZ-C Heeswijk - 506 PIR
06:49 Son, village and bridge
Music:
* Salute to the 101st Airborne Division
* Blood on the Risers
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It was my honor to meet a vet from 101st Airborne. He was in his 90s and shopping with his wife at Jewel. We talked about his paratrooping into France on D-Day. It was my honor to meet a real war hero. We talked about guns. We talked about Paton relieving him being trapped in Bastogne. I made him laugh when I said “Nuts!” He was happy I knew some of the WW2 history he participated in. I saluted him before shaking his hand and telling him how much we admired him and his service. It was a great memory I will cherish.
I would love to meet a Vet..you are so lucky to hear first hand experience from.Him such an honourable man
Awesome story!!
Great stuff. Thanks for the captions- they really helped.
My pleasure!
I like seeing actual footage from 1944/45
Great coverage. My uncle Ted Mullin jumped into that with the 82nd. All my uncles were in combat in WW2. Two were wounded, two of my fathers half brothers were killed and my uncle Bill was an engineer that landed at Omaha. Most guys in his unit died on that beach. He fought all the way to Bastogne.
Amazing, thank you so much for sharing!
Bless your family for its sacrifice!
That was excellent footage, thank you.
That was one of the most interesting and informative videos of Market Garden!!!!
Thank you so much!
Very nice! Thank you for posting this!
My pleasure!
Lost for words after watching this. Powerful footage.
I enjoyed this a lot. Thanks!
My pleasure!
A mass parachute jump is incredible to see. I participated in one in 1962 Operation Swift Strike. After all these years, I remember like it was yesterday. WOW What a rush
Thanks for the great footage. Enjoyed Liked and subbed! Dad, Samuel Jacobs was in both the 82nd and 101st. He was in the 508th PIR co. H. JJ USN VF-142 1975-79 F-14 Tomcats
It was my honor to meet and talk with WWII Screaming Eagle combat veteran and author Don Burgett several times, arranged through WWII 101st Airborne historian and author Mark Bando.
Excellent vid.
Thanks!
Outstanding 👍
Had to watch again. So Cool to see. So many years later. JJ
Glad you enjoyed it
@@TheBattlefieldExplorer Thanks!! Happy TurkeyDay!! JJ
My dad, 502 pir. Didn’t recognize him in any of the close ups, a medic. But maybe I saw him in the crowds. He went on to serve 4 tours in Vietnam. Miss him, one serious American 🇺🇸.
Wow Hero!! Tough SOB!! Thanks for his service!
Great video! I recognized the song from Band of Brothers. Never realised it is an actual song though.
Just found the lyrics of the song. Have to say the lyrics are quite grim in comparison to the melody haha
Yes indeed, a weird song to sing joyfully!
It’s called “ Blood on the Risers”! Every real paratrooper knows it well!
I’m half way thru BOB for the third time. Don’t ever remember hearing this in the series. But I’ll keep listening for it…
@@samiam619 Check the scene over here: th-cam.com/video/MUGjnxBkcko/w-d-xo.html
Respect 101st Airborne. Respect Easy Company.
Respect to the Real and Truly Evropas Defenders!
There were many Easy Companies! Dad was 508th H company. Red Devils JJ USN VF-142 75-79
@@johnjacobs1625, yup, my grandfather was there in F company 501st PIR.
Sadly, an easy company veteran just passed away in my town a couple weeks ago. ☹️
@@John-mf6ky Almost all are gone now. My dad was born in 1914 and was the oldest enlisted in the outfit. Lived to be 85. JJ
Too cool
Hope he got back to Iowa.
seeing all those chutes @ 6.20 Wow. really hope he did.
Angels from the sky.
Colonel Sink!! Amazing
We are all lucky as hell that we don’t have to fight in a world war
True that!
Intéressant
THANK YOU SOLDIERS
It's Greenham Common. Later to be a base for cruise missiles.
Greenham Common was used as an exercise area by the 10th Special Forces Group for Operation Flintlock during the late 70s. Special Forces A-Teams were launched into Germany from RAF Greenham Common as well as RAF Sculthorpe in East Anglia. England was like a giant aircraft carrier during the war years and a flight over the English countryside during the 70s and 80s would reveal many many former airfields marked by the “scars” of their former runways on the English countryside. Many of these were satellite fields or “recovery” fields where disabled aircraft could make emergency landings.
Honor to our fore bearers !!! AIRBORNE ALL THEY WAY!!!
Ik wist niet dat er ook luchtlandingen bij kasteel heeswijk zijn geweest. Kun je daar meer over vertellen?
Bij Kasteel Heeswijk hadden ze niet moeten landen maar het vliegtuig met de Pathfinders was boven België neergeschoten. Hierdoor waren de landingsterreinen niet gemarkeerd en zijn ze naar de verkeerde plek gevlogen. Ze hadden bij Veghel ten westen van de spoorbruggen moeten landen.
My Grandfather! Noel
There's footage of French civilians burying some of those guys by a hedge out there. I couldn't count the crosses there were so many. RIP
Good stuff I’m a history nut
Thanks!
I am currently doing research about son in ww2 and do you perhaps have some pictures of the bridge before it was blown up by the Germans? I personally can't find any footage or photos. If you can help me, plz tell me!
The "heemkunde kring Son & Breugel" have a couple on their site:
www.hkksonenbreugel.nl/Instant%20Website%20Heemkundekring%20'Son%20en%20Breugel'%20v3/fotobank.html?diw-id=brabantcloud_enb-87-beeldmateriaal_enb-87.beeldmateriaal-4a1e96a7-2837-d435-eb2b-a9d379e4c8b0-ad174306-8233-11e5-b424-1feeb3cb3c4f
i love this song definitly a hell of a way to die.. RIP to the fallen of japan,germany,usa,canada,great britain and so much more
Many thanks to Monty for pushing to do this asinine mission. The Nazi’s send their thanks to Monty for allowing entire German divisions to retreat and escape the Falaise encirclement by not following orders and delaying by two days the encircling and thus destruction of the German army in the west. Monty is a powder puff!
I suppose you do know that Patton allowed the German divisions to escape from Sicily, and Mark Clark did an identical thing in Italy; because he was desperate for the glory of liberating Rome, an undefended 'Open' city? Clark disobeyed his commanding officer (Field Marshal Alexander) to close the ring around the retreating German army. In respect of Montgomery: in the Normandy campaign he deliberately drew in the bulk of the Panzer units onto the Anglo-Canadian sector, enabling the American forces under Bradley to break out (Operation Cobra) against seriously diminished opposition. I'll leave the last word to Walter Bedell- Smith Eisenhower's C-of-S: "I don't know if we could have done it without Monty. Whatever they say about him, he got us there". (UK)
Monty watched as Patton took not only Palermo but Messina in Sicily as the old woman Monty dithered.And Bernard did less in Italy.And really only won when given massive advantages in men/materiel/Ultra/Air support and then won just barely and poorly. In 1500 miles he never captured Rommel.Ignoring many JR Officers who wanted to cut across his only lines of retreat - repeatedly and the Tosser brushed them off.Britain had good officers he wasn't one of them
@@bigwoody4704 well said
Here's all i could dig up on Beddell-Smith and Monty
*Max Hastings,Armageddon:The Battle for Germany,1944-45* The release of the files from German Signals by Bletchley Park conclusively showed that the 9th & 10th Panzer Divisions were re-fitting in the Arnhem area.With their Recon Battalions intact. *Yet when Bedell-Smith(SHAEF) brought this to Monty's attention "he ridiculed the idea and waved my objections airly aside"*
It don't do no good to Monday Morning quarterback events. It went down like it went down.
It's war-things change fluidly.
Instead of lessening the dangerous aspect of what these men faced by turning these newsreels into musicals.. why dont you use established narrations by either Lowell Thomas or Peter Thomas and recenter the aspect of these events to the seriousness they represent ?
I’ll agree with that!!