- Title: VM-1016A
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:01:00 - "ALL AMERICAN" 00:01:30 - NARRATOR TELLS OF THE 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION CALLED "THE ALL-AMERICAN DIVISION". 00:03:04 - THE 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION MONTAGE: PARATROOPERS JUMPING OUT OF TRANSPORT PLANES, SKY FULL OF CHUTES. 00:03:09 - PARATROOPER HITTING THE GROUND & PULLING IN HIS CHUTE. REMOVING IT THEN RUNNING WITH HIS WEAPON. 00:03:56 - GROUP OF CIVILIAN RECRUITS RAISING THEIR HANDS & MOUTHING OATH 00:04:17 - 82ND DIVISION TROOPS TREKING THROUGH MUD DURING WWI. 00:04:22 - SHELL EXPLODING LIFTING BALL OF EARTH. PHOTO OF SGT. ALVIN YORK SUPERIMPOSED ON BATTLE SCENE. 00:04:34 - CU PHOTO OF GENERAL JONATHAN WAINWRIGHT, HERO OF WWII. ALL MEMBERS OF THE FAMOUS 82ND DIVISION 00:04:39 - TROOPS GOING 'OVER THE TOP' FROM THE TRENCHES IN WWI. 00:04:56 - GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY & MATTHEW RIDGEWAY 00:05:00 - MONTAGE SQUAD OF GIS EXERCISING: JOGGING AT TRAINING CAMP RUNNING AT THE CAMERA, DOING PUSH-UPS, CRAWLING ON STOMACHS, JUMPING WITH PARACHUTES OUT OF TRAINING PLATFORMS, ETC. 00:05:22 - GLIDER PLANE LANDING & SKIDDING HARD. 00:05:27 - GIS TRAIN IN JOCKEY SHORTS. JUMP HURDLES, SCALE TALL WALLS & CRAWL THROUGH ROUND TUBES IN DESERT SAND OBSTACLE COURSE 00:06:14 - 82ND PARATROOPS JUMPING OVER SICILY IN JULY 1943. WALKING ON ROADS & THROUGH BOMBED-OUT TOWNS. 00:06:19 - TWO GIS STAND & THROW GRENADES, THEN HIT THE GROUND. 00:06:24 - CU CAMERA GOES ARRAY AS SHELL EXPLODES NEARBY. 00:07:17 - PARATROOPS OF THE 82ND DROPPING OVER SALERNO IN SEPTEMBER, 1943. 00:07:22 - MONTAGE GERMAN ARTILLERY & HEAVY MACHINE GUNS FIRING ON GI POSITIONS 00:07:39 - MONTAGE 82ND IS GREETED BY HAPPY WAVING PEOPLE UPON ENTERING NAPLES. 00:08:27 - PAN OF RAINY MUDDY LANDSCAPE OF ITALY. 00:08:32 - JEEP BEING PULLED OUT OF DEEP MUDDY ROAD. 00:08:37 - FEET TREKING THROUGH MUD. 00:08:42 - MULES CARRY HEAVY EQUIPMENT UP MOUNTAINS. 00:08:50 - MEDICS STRUGGLE TO CARRY WOUNDED DOWN RUGGED MOUNTAIN SLOPE ON STRETCHER. 00:10:08 - SMALL GI SWING BAND PLAYS OUTDOORS WHILE ANOTHER GROUP PLAYS VOLLEYBALL DURING REST PERIOD IN ENGLAND. 00:11:13 - GIS SHAVING, COMBING THEIR HAIR & SHOWERING DURING REST PERIOD AFTER CRACKING THE SEIGFREID LINE IN GERMANY. 00:11:28 - GIS PLAYING PING PONG. 00:11:41 - GROUP OF GIS CROSS ELBE RIVER IN SMALL BOAT. 00:11:49 - MONTAGE ENTIRE 21ST ARMY, 145,000 GERMAN TROOPS, IN TRUCKS, HORSE AND WAGONS & WALKING. SURRENDERED TO THE 82ND DIVISION AT LUDWIGSBURG 00:12:19 - TEENAGE GERMAN SOLDIER IS HELPED TO REMOVE HIS COAT BY GI. 00:12:24 - CU FACE TEEN GERMAN SOLDIER & ELDERLY ONE. 00:12:40 - 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION ON PARADE GROUNDS IN BERLIN AS THEY WERE SELECTED BY EISENHOWER TO BE BERLIN HONOR GUARD AT END OF WAR. 00:12:57 - MONTAGE 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION MARCHES DOWN 5TH AVENUE IN NEW YORK CITY IN JANUARY 1946 00:13:43 - PEOPLE ON ROOFTOPS LAY DOWN ON THEIR CHESTS & LOOK OVER EDGE OF ROOF & DOWN AT PARADE. 00:13:48 - AERIAL 82ND AS SEEN FROM THOSE ON ROOFTOPS. 00:14:20 - NARRATOR INTERVIEWS COLONEL ROBERT WEINIKE OF 82ND AIRBORNE WHO TELLS OF ROLE HE PLAYED & ROLE OF ALL THE SUPPORT UNITS OF82ND DIVISION. 00:20:29 - OFFICERS PLANNING DROP OVER NORMANDY ON JUNE 5TH 00:20:50 - MONTAGE GIS SOLEMNLY ATTEND RELIGIOUS SERVICES. 28TH PSALM IS RECITED. IMAGES OF MEN PREPARING FOR ACTION 00:21:18 - MONTAGE TRANSPORT PLANES TAKE OFF AT NIGHT FOR PARACHUTE DROP OVER NORMANDY. D-DAY 00:21:35 - PARACHUTES FILL SKY. TRACER BULLETS BEING FIRED 00:22:10 - GI HITS GROUND AS SHELL EXPLODES NEARBY. SIGN: "STE. MARIE FELISE". FIRST FRENCH TOWN LIBERATED 00:22:29 - GIS LAY HUDDLED OFF ROAD AGAINST HEDGEGROVE. 00:22:34 - HUGE EXPLOSION SENDS UP BLACK CLOUD OF DUST ON ROAD NEARBY. 00:22:50 - MONTAGE GERMANS WALK IN WITH THEIR HANDS IN AIR IN SURRENDER. OTHERS LAY DEAD ON THE GROUND. 00:23:00 - MONTAGE WOUNDED GIS ARE CARRIED ON STRETCHERS BY MEDICS & THEIR BUDDIES. 00:23:33 - GENERAL EISENHOWER SPEAKS TO MEN FROM PLATFORM 00:24:29 - TROOPS LISTEN ATTENTIVELY AS GENERAL JAMES GAVIN SPEAKS TO THEM IN FIELD IN PREPARATION FOR DROP INTO HOLLAND. 00:25:00 - PARATROOPER WITH FRONT & BACK CHUTES CHECKS OUT HIS RIFLE BEFORE BOARDING PLANE. 00:25:20 - MONTAGE SQUADRON OF DC-3s LADEN WITH PARATROOPERS TAKES OFF FOR HOLLAND. 00:26:04 - GLIDER PLANE CRASHES & TIPS OVER IN FIELD IN HOLLAND. 00:26:09 - DUTCH WOMAN GIVES DIRECTIONS TO OFFICER WITH MAP AS THEY KNEEL IN FIELD. 00:26:10 - QUAINT BRICK FACTORY BUILDING GOES UP IN FLAMES. 00:26:15 - DUTCH PEOPLE WAVE ROBOTICALLY AT GIS. 00:26:48 - LARGE TRUSS BRIDGE ACROSS THE RHINE IS HEAVILY DEFENDED BY GERMANS. 00:26:53 - GERMAN SOLDIER BALANCES HIMSELF ON HIGH PERCH TO CHECK ALLIED POSITIONS THROUGH HIS BINOCULARS. 00:27:10 - DEAD BODY LIES ON SIDE OF ROAD AS BRITISH TANKS SPEED ACROSS BRIDGE. 00:27:41 - GI HELPS HIMSELF TO TRAY OF HOT FOOD FROM PAN. 00:27:46 - CU GI SMILES INTO CAMERA AS HE TAKES BIG BITE OF FOOD. 00:28:03 - SHELLS EXPLODE AROUND GI AS RIDES HIS JEEP WITH FLAMES SHOOTING FROM REAR AS GERMANS ATTACK AT BATTLE OF THE BULGE. 00:28:27 - MONTAGE GIS STAND IN SNOW & FIRE THEIR RIFLES. 00:28:32 - GI WRAPS HIMSELF IN BLANKET AS HE STANDS BY MACHINE GUN IN FROZEN FIELD. 00:28:41 - MONTAGE GERMAN ARTILLERY CREWS FIRE CANNONS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1942
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1016A