- Title: VM-1071A
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:02:35 - "PENTOMOIC 101ST" STORY OF THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION FROM EARLY WWII TRAINING TO BECOMING THE ARMY'S FIRST PENTOMIC DIVISION 00:02:42 - MS- NARRATOR SERGEANT STUART QUEEN ATTENDS THE CEREMONIES OF THE RE-ORGANIZATION AND RE-BIRTH OF THE 'NEW' 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION AT FORT GAMBLE, KENTUCKY IN PREPARATION FOR THE 'ATOMIC AGE'. 00:03:20 - MS- AT THE PARADE GROUNDS THE GIS KNEEL FOR A FIELD PRAYER AS THOSE HOLDING THE MANY FLAGS BOW THEIR HEADS AS THE DIVISION CHAPLAIN PRAYS. 00:03:33 - MS- AS SECRETARY OF THE ARMY WILBUR M. BRUCKER UN-SHEATHS THE COLORS, CHIEF OF STAFF, GENERAL MAXWELL TAYLOR STANDS AT ATTENTION. 00:03:55 - LS- OVERHEAD A MASS PARATROOP DROP GETS UNDER WAY MS- PEOPLE IN THE STANDS LOOK SKYWARD. 00:04:52 - MS- A BALD EAGLE,THE DIVISIONS MASCOT WATCHES, TIED TO A PERCH. LS- AN 'HONEST JOHN' ROCKET IS FIRED. LS- NEW ASSAULT TYPE AIRCRAFT, THE C-123 MAKES A LANDING USING SHORT AIRSTRIP. 00:05:25 - MS- A TRADITIONAL ARMY MULE STANDS NEXT TO A SPECIAL CARRY-ALL VEHICLE WHICH WILL MAKE MULE OBSOLETE. A BLACK GI DEMONSTRATES THE VEHICLE. 00:05:48 - LS- A GI DEMONSTRATES THE 'FLYING PLATFORM'. 00:06:07 - MS- ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF MAXWELL D. TAYLOR MAKES A SPEECH FROM THE REVIEWING STAND AS SECRETARY BRUCKER STANDS BY. 00:08:33 - CU- GI MEMBER OF THE 101ST STANDS AT ATTENTION AND REMINISCES AND NARRATES. MONTAGE- SHIRTLESS GIS GO THROUGH A VIGOROUS OBSTACLE COURSE AND MOCK JUMPS FROM A HIGH TOWER IN 1942. 00:09:18 - MS- WINSTON CHURCHILL AND GENERAL EISENHOWER DO A TOUR OF INSPECTION OF THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION JUST BEFORE D-DAY 00:09:50 - MS- COMMANDERS OF THE AIRBORNE GATHER AROUND A MAP AND PLOT THE DROP ON THE CHERBORG PENNINSULAR IN FRANCE 00:09:57 - MS- GENERAL IKE CHATS WITH A YOUNG BRIGADIER GENERAL, MAXWELL TAYLOR. MS- IKE TALKS, ONE-ON-ONE TO THE PAINTED FACED TROOPS, BEFORE THE DROP ON D-DAY. 00:12:00 - MONTAGE- SCENES OF D-DAY AT THE NORMANDY LANDING 00:12:54 - MS- A GI FIRING A GRENADE FROM HIS RIFLE INTO A 2ND STORY WINDOW AND THE ENSUING EXPLOSION. 00:13:00 - MONTAGE- WWII BATTLE SCENES AND SURRENDERING GERMAN SOLDIERS. MS- LITTLE FRENCH KIDS HOLD BOQUETS OF FLOWERS FOR THE GIS DURING VICTORY CEREMONIES IN A FRENCH SQUARE. 00:18:55 - MONTAGE- BATTLE OF THE BULGE SCENES (PREVIOUSLY LOGGED) 00:21:30 - MONTAGE- FACES OF WEARY, THOROUGHLY BEATEN AND DOWN-THRODDEN GERMAN PRISONERS. 00:23:05 - LS- VICTORIOUS GIS OF THE 101ST LOOK OUT FROM HITLER'S 'EAGLE NEST' INTO THE BEAUTIFUL BLACK FOREST RETREAT IN BAVARIA. 00:23:23 - MS- GENERAL MAXWELL TAYLOR CONTINUES HIS SPEECH. 00:24:34 - LS- IN A SIMULATED OPERATION A 11 MAN PARATROOP DROP OVER ENEMY TERRITORY AND DESTROY A SMALL BRIDGE 00:27:00 - MONTAGE- AS THE 101ST MARCH. THEIR BATTLE SONG IS HEARD BEING SUNG BY A CHOIR.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1071A