Scrapbook from the service of Russell M. Saunders : Scrapbook 1944.

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Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Summary:

Description: Brown cover with a lion holding a thistle. Newspaper clipping: "Going to OCS [Officer Candidate School] Private Russell Saunders, former Hollywood Stunt-man and Double for screen stars in Dangerous film work, was recently accepted as an officer candidate and will soon leave for Fort Custer Michigan to train and study for a commission in the Corps of Military Police"; photographs of American airborne troops probably of the First Allied Airborne Army marching during a parade somewhere in the United Kingdom; American and British soldiers raise their national flags in a ceremony somewhere in the United Kingdom, Douglas C-47 Skytrains and Waco CG-4A gliders lined up on a runway; American soldier securing cargo inside of Waco CG-4A glider; photograph probably taken during the planning of the Operation Market-Garden: first on the left is Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton-Commander of the First Allied Airborne Army, first on the right is Brigadier General Victor H. Strahm-Chief of Staff of the 9th Air Force and next to him is General Floyd L. Parks-Chief of Staff of the First Allied Airborne Army; side and front view of a fully equipped American paratrooper; Waco CG-4A gliders being prepared for loading; glider troops gather and relax around the Waco CG-4A gliders prior their mission; British Horsa and American Waco gliders parked in rows on an airfield; C-47s lined up on runway with three formation of six C-47s flying above in three V formations; American paratroopers preparing for their mission in front of the C-47s "American airborne troops file into their carrier planes which took them across the channel on the invasion of Holland"; servicemen observing a C-47 transport plane towing a Waco CG-4A glider at the end of an airfield; a paratrooper in the rank of Colonel taking to a Brigadier general from the First Allied Airborne Army "Last pix Col Johnson 501 [Colonel Howard R. Johnson-commander of the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division] Gen Brerton [Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton-Commander of the 1st Allied Airborne Army]"; a Lieutenant General probably Lewis H. Brereton is shaking a hand with one of two paratrooper in full gear in front of a C-47 Skytrain "Crossing Rhine"[Operation Varsity"]; an aerial view of a Landing Zone/LZ with gliders; high-ranking Allied officers inspecting a towing rope on an airfield "6-May["]-44 Genl. Brereton"; C-47s on the flightline while loading for an airborne operation; American paratroopers descending from the sky; C-47s flying in formation; Armstrong Whitworth A.W. 41 Albemarle two engine British transport aircraft used also as the glider tug in flight; aerial view of Margate in the United Kingdom; C-47s transport planes dropping paratroopers during operation Market-Garden; views at landing and drop zones; groups of German POWs gathered on the fields; photographs of a Waco CG-4A glider on the LZ with an explosion in the background "Smoke rises from C-47 transport in Holland during 1st Allied Airborne Army Operation"; British tanks crossing the Waal road bridge in Nijmegen in Holland; group of American paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division with the M1 Thompson submachine guns; British soldiers with two captured German soldiers possibly from Waffen-SS; Dutch women accused of collaboration with the Germans marching through a street with their heads shaved as part of public humiliation; review of the entire 82nd Airborne Division in the presence of General Eisenhower and high-ranking officers probably at an airport outside of Leicester, England in late August 1944; British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower reviewing 101st Airborne Division troops with its commander, Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor at Welford airfield, Berkshire, England on March 23, 1944; General Dwight D. Eisenhower, in the center, with Air Chief Marshall Trafford Leigh-Mallory, first on the right, and Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton, first on the left with glasses in upper part of the photograph, possibly during a visit of the troops at Greenham Common airfield, Berkshire, England on June 5, 1944; Major General Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, walking down the stairs in front of unidentified house; General Dwight D. Eisenhower accompanied by Air Chief Marshall Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton possibly during a visit with the 354th Pioneer Mustang Fighter Group (notice the North American P-51B Mustangs in the background); Colonel Philip G. Cochran, co-commander of the 1st Air Commando Group, with Harry Zinder correspondent of the Time magazine; a Horsa glider in U.S. markings with horses and cows "Title Gliders and Animals. Photographer Et. Madsen. Date 4 July 44. Ninth Air Forces Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, July 1944-In a French pasture on the Cherbourg peninsula horses and cows continue their grazing despite the presence of a glider that carrier Ninth Air Force troops and supplies to the fighting front.".

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