Air Army Invades Nazi Germany; Patton's 3rd Army 1945/4/5

(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 damaging resistance the gliders land with their jeeps and other materiel. Shortly, 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 Rhine in north, Churchill and Ike observe, parachutes from C-46 filling the sky with billowing parachutes, gliders land, plane crashes, artillery, 4000 prisoners taken. (2) Coblenz Key to Saar Captured - "With tanks leading the way, units of Gen. Patton's U.S. 3rd Army advance on Coblenz, the thousand-year-old transportation center. Repeated air bombings and heavy artillery fire have reduced the city to ruins, from which the Nazis offer scattered resistance. Tom Priestley, Universal cameraman, covers the entire action. Soldier dead litter the ground. A loud speaker is used to demand and direct surrender and several thousand Nazi prisoners are collared. White flags flutter from the few remaining ancient homes. Ancient Ehrenbrightstein Castle, used by the Germans as a fortress, is a battered pile of ruins. American tanks rumble through the narrow streets, and head eastward, deeper into Germany." scenes of Universal's Tom Priestley operating camera to make films, soldiers fighting street by street in the town, Germans surrender to Patton's 3rd Army (3) New French Sky Giant - "Secretly built during Nazi occupation, a gigantic 6 motor French flying boat is now unveiled. It takes off and flies as gracefully as anything in the air." (4) Airborne Division Decorated - "In a stirring speech, Gen. Eisenhower awards the Presidential Citation to the famous 101st Airborne Division for its heroic defense of Bastogne. Steel-helmeted Marlene Dietrich joins the entire reviewing party in saluting the 101st." scenes of Eisenhower honors Screaming Eagles, Ike speaks on 1st time decoration given to an entire division, Marlene Dietrich salutes. (complete newsreel)

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[calibre9mm]

wow im gonna pee in ur parade, it was Nazi scientists who USA brought over in operation 'paperclip' that made NASA its 1st rocket & took em to the moon (V-Rockets duh)

paratroopers, the blitzkrieg (used by every army now, including USA in Iraq invasion) among other allied weapns tech are German innovations

plus lets not forget BMW, Audi, Daimler-Mercedes (now Daimler Chrysler) that americans still have a hard-on for, automobiles of hitlers choice haha

[Dethphunk]

True is that Americans did supplied the Russians with war goods. However you can't deny Russian dogged resistance against Axis advances and their counter offensives which help to tied up about 70% of the German armies in the Eastern Front thus they are making most of the fighting in Europe.

Only in the Pacific that the Americans were right to claim they did the lion's share of fighting.

[RomeAndMarty4Ever]

@calibre9mm So you're saying that Americans are stupid for using brilliant innovations, and that we shouldn't just because they are German? I think not using an innovation because of where it came from would be stupid. You know, like rejecting anything that didn't come from someone blonde hair blued eyed. That seems pretty freaking stupid to anyone with a brain.

[dcconsi]

patton had no air command ye liars

[calibre9mm]

@davidrodgersNJ u should read what i was replying to with that comment dumb dumb, the guy said "anything German has been a stain in history".

Nazis are bad, but Hitler is 3rd in the mass murder death toll, behind the great Mao & the hero Stalin

[davidrodgersNJ]

@calibre9mm Oh yeah, the Nazis were just terrific! You're a psycho creep.

[fredjustsucks]

@gavinjamesaitken1

USA

[Foxtrot262]

@916ppl ???? What are you serious read about the invasion of Crete !!15000 german paratroopers landed in Crete in early 1941 before the US was even in the war.

[Unitor677]

america only won because hitlers army was busy on other fronts

[gavinjamesaitken1]

go bomb those fucking nazi's!!!

[916ppl]

@calibre9mm Not really. The German created the first paratroopers but it never saw any serious air dropping like the US&UK. Blitzkrieg isn't new. Generals had use them in Medieval times with cavalry. Example is Genghis Khan with his cavalry conquer Northern China in couple of months (fastest movement in Medieval time). Not mentioning ruling the biggest Empire in the world. As well as being the few that conquer most of Russia. Viking, Mongolians, and then the Tartars (before Khan and then after).

[916ppl]

@Victory1981 Not with the sub-machine gun. I am American and proud to be. However, the German invent the first successful one in late WW1.