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Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean as a U.S. Coast Guard officer speaks into a microphone during World War II.

Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. A Coast Guards officer speaks into a microphone. Two officers on the bridge of a cutter as they talk. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank ) with an LCT ( Landing Craft Tank ) tied alongside. Equipment on the deck of an LCI. A patrol boat with an LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry ) tied up alongside. The patrol boat pulls up along side other patrol boats. The bows of the patrol boats with Liberty ships anchored in the background. A patrol boat underway. Another patrol boat passes in the background. American and Coast Guard flag fly aboard a patrol boat.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058885
U.S. Coast Guardsmen aboard a transport ship prepare to lower an LCM while underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. The barrel of an open 5 inch 38 caliber mount. A man in a foul weather gear on a lookout in the foreground. A man works on a blinker light. A transport ship underway in the background. A boat crew readies an LCM ( Landing Craft Mechanized ). Gears of a winch in operation. A U.S. Coat Guard Lieutenant in a blue uniform and a garrison cap with two men on the deck of the ship. An anchor chain comes up. A hawsepipe as a stream of water goes down and washes the chain. Coast Guardsmen on the deck of a transport ship as they get ready to lower a gangway. Coast Guardsmen make a splice in a line.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058889
The SPARS complete a five months radio course to be radio operators during their training in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) working in the Atlantic City, New Jersey. Women seated on chairs inside a building. They complete a five months radio course to be radio operators. Women marching on the ground. A board on a building reads: 'US Coast Guard Training Station'.

Date: 1944, June 15
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076591
U.S. General Patch, U.S. Admiral Hewitt, and French Admiral Lemonnier lead the Allied fleet invasion of southern France.

Amphibious and airborne Allied forces land in southern France during World War II. (Operation Dragoon in August 1944). Map of France depicts Allied landings at Normandy on D-Day. Naples: An Allied naval force assembles, poised for landing in Southern France, 10 weeks after the Normandy D-Day invasion. Thousands of landing crafts, trucks, tanks, mobile cannons, military vehicles and equipment in the embarkation area. Barrages in flight overhead. Allied officers supervise as the vehicles are loaded into ships. US, French, British, Greek and Polish troops move up to their ships. The ships underway in the Mediterranean. U.S. Secretary of Navy James Forrestal, U.S. Army General Alexander Patch, French Admiral Andre Lemonnier and U.S. Navy Admiral Henry Hewitt (Chief of the Atlantic Invasion Fleet) aboard the flagship. Allied soldiers stitch sleeve patches. An animated map depicts the Allied invasion of southern France near Toulon in a combined amphibious and airborne assault. Hundreds of transport aircraft carry paratroop forces. The paratroopers get ready, jump, and descend to the ground. The amphibious forces near the French coast. German shore batteries fire at the approaching naval vessels. Explosions on ships and in water. Allied troops crouched in landing crafts. They hit the beach under shell fire and advance in land.

Date: 1944, August
Duration: 5 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021888
United States troops sleep and relax on board a Coast Guard Troop Transport ship in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

United States Army troops aboard a ship underway in a convoy headed for England, in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Destroyers and other ships are part of the convoy. Troops in hammocks aboard ship. They play card game, sing and play musical instruments on board ship. Soldiers read, write a letter, stitch an insignia, sleep. Coast Guard radio operator sending morse code message with a key. Men load cartridges into ammunition belts on board ship. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051447
U.S. Signal Corps officers and soldiers use mine detectors, modern radars, and meteorological equipment during World War II.

The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. U.S. shuttle ships loaded with signal communication supplies for U.S. and Allied troops in the European Theater make their way in the Atlantic ocean. The Squier Laboratory at Camp Alfred Vail in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. A technician works on signal communication equipment in the laboratory. U.S. soldiers use mine detectors in the European Theater during World War II. The mine detectors detect metallic, non-metallic mines, wooden box mines, and mines in glass containers. Artillery soldiers bury large microphones into the ground in advance zones. The microphones relay back information on enemy artillery. Soldiers receive the information on radio sets. U.S. aircraft on a training flight simulating real combat situation: The aircraft lost in heavy rain and rough weather, looking for the location of Boston. The pilot switches on a modern advanced radar. The radar waves pierce thick clouds, are reflected by Earth's surface and display an image on the scope. The image shows the clear location of Boston harbor directly under the aircraft. U.S. bombers attack over the Channel coast on D-Day (6 June, 1944). U.S. soldiers employ meteorological equipment for long range weather forecast in the European Theater during World War II. Soldiers release a hydrogen balloon into the sky. Another soldier uses an apparatus to take readings of atmospheric conditions behind enemy lines. An aircraft drops an automatic weather station called SCM-18-TI by parachute into enemy territory. The timed mechanism sends out weather data in codes. The interior of the automatic weather station lying open in a field.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021722