D-Day to Berlin

00:00:00 (EXPLOSIONS)

00:02:39 We were very optimistic that we were going to really clean up this thing

00:04:26 I'll do what I can, sir

00:06:22 was General George Patton.

00:07:58 Gentlemen, the perfectly phenomenal advance of the British 21st Army Group

00:10:03 There are big points of principle we should tackle ourselves and we don't need the staff.

00:12:13 But Patton was very demanding in his requirements for fuel.

00:14:34 The first I knew of it was

00:16:22 We must put everything into one selected thrust and give it priority.

00:18:44 It didn't take a big brain to realise that crossing the Rhine was the next big obstacle.

00:21:02 (ENGLISH ACCENT) Seeing this incredible air armada with all the gliders and paratroops

00:23:20 (HEAVY BOMBARDMENT)

00:25:40 Everything depended on the tanks of British 30 Corps punching through to Arnhem

00:27:51 ''My choice of routes for making the all-out offensive into Germany

00:30:49 and you'd think, ''Oh, it's 30 Corps.''

00:32:51 Then the Germans came in and captured us.

00:35:18 That is a poor way of fighting.

00:37:18 for what would be another difficult conference.

00:39:47 We were out looking for targets for the artillery.

00:41:59 the veteran American airborne divisions.

00:44:27 - When can you start moving? - As soon as you're through.

00:46:25 All that mattered to the ordinary American soldier was the grim battle against the weather

00:48:54 Who will take my place? Who?

100:00:00 were casualties of the fighting.