WWII Newsreel : Operation Varsity 1945
National Archives description Shows land and air operations against Germany in March, 1945. American airplanes conduct daytime and nighttime bombings. Royal Air Force gliders and troop carriers take off from England with airborne troops. American airborne troops embark from France and land in Germany. Shows elements of the 9th Army crossing the Rhine River. Prime minister Churchill and Field Marshall Montgomery cross the Rhine and are shown with Gen. Eisenhower. German prisoners cross the river.” National Archives Identifier: 39163