D-DAY
Official US Army Documentary on the use of Airborne troops in Normandy:
A British television news item about Lt Col David Hamilton's visit to his old airfield at North Witham in Jun 2019, 75 years after D-Day:
An interview with Lt Col David Hamilton about his part in the US Airborne Pathfinder mission on D-Day (David passed in January 2025 and this was one of his last interviews):
Documentaries about Lt Col Frank Lillyman, who - as a Captain - led the Pathfinders of the 101st Airborne Division into Normandy on D-Day:
A collection of oral histories by the US National WWII Museum of men who served in the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II:
OPERATION MARKET GARDEN
Watch a documentary re-enactment of the Battle of Arnhem produced jointly by the J Arthur Rank Organisation and the British Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) and released in 1946. Studio sets and actors were not used and the events depicted are real: survivors of the battle re-lived their experiences at the actual locations where events occurred.
Click here to watch footage taken by the AFPU at Saltby on the first day of Operation MARKET GARDEN, 17 September 1944, of troops of the 2nd Parachute Battalion preparing for their flight to Arnhem:
Dutch home movies taken in Arnhem Oosterbeek on the second day of Operation MARKET GARDEN, 18 September 1944:
Interview by Dutch television of Sue Talley, whose father - Lt George K Gurwell - served in the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the US 82nd Airborne Division. Sue's interview in English begins 3m 13s into the film:
OPERATION DOOMSDAY
Footage by Gaumont British Newsreels of the surrender of German forces in Norway:
US newsreel footage of the German surrender to British troops in Norway in 1945:
RAF aircrew remember their participation in Operation DOOMSDAY:
Click the button below to watch Wilfred Oldham, a veteran of the 1st (Airborne) Battalion, Border Regiment, describe his memories of his deployment to Norway during Operation DOOMSDAY:
After the surrender of German forces throughout Europe, German crews take their armoured vehicles to storage areas under British control:
A short film by historian Mark Felton describing Operation DOOMSDAY:
US IX TROOP CARRIER COMMAND
Watch WW2 TV's interview with an expert historian on the life of General Paul Williams, Commander, US IX Troop Carrier Command:
AIRCRAFT CRASH AT CARLTON SCROOP
Watch WW2 TV's interview with aviation historians Adam Berry and David Bristow about the tragic collision of two Troop Carrier Command aircraft over the pretty village of Carlton Scroop in December 1944:
THOMAS DAVIES, 1ST PARACHUTE BATTALION, BRITISH 1ST AIRBORNE DIVISION
Click on the buttons below to read the eyewitness accounts of Thomas Davies of the 1st Parachute Battalion of his preparations and involvement in the Battle of Arnhem:
'DIGGING MARKET GARDEN'
Watch the short film of the archaeological dig at Fulbeck Manor in August 2024, which was made for Time Team's YouTube channel by SJR Media:
IN HEROES' FOOTSTEPS: NORTH WITHAM AIRFIELD
Watch a short 'taster' of what remains of the US Pathfinder base at North Witham airfield today:
AVIATION HERITAGE IN SOUTH KESTEVEN
Watch a short film by South Kesteven District Council on the District's aviation heritage: