Learning on ScreenGreatest Sky Armada in History
Series
- Series Name
- Pathe Gazette
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 3
- Summary
- Airborne troops prepare to board gliders which will take them on the invasion of Holland. RAF Halifaxes, Stirlings and Albermarles, British Horsa gliders and American Wacos all go to make up this armada. Then they are airborne and we see them as they pass over the British coast towards Holland, and from a liberated Belgian town they are seen as they pass overhead. One crashed Dakota hits a Panzer tanks and they are seen in flames. Then the aerial shots of the gliders after casting off from planes and parachutes gliding down to earth.
- Keywords
- Aviation; Photography; Military
- Locations
- Belgium
- Length of story (in feet)
- 311
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- British Pathe Ltd
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