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Allies advance following the invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II
Film opens showing map of Normandy, France. Next, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is seen seated in a jeep, conversing with an officer, standing nearby, who makes notes in a pad. Lieutenant General Omar Bradley sits in the back of the jeep, and a Major General stands beside the jeep. Other officers stand around in the background. Eisenhower converses with the Major General. Scene shifts to closeup of Lieutenant General George Patton. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers fly overhead, part of a two thousand plane bombarding the Saint-Lô area on July 25, 1944. Closeup of a B-24 dropping bombs and views of bombs exploding on the ground. American M4 Sherman tanks and infantrymen advancing after the bombardment. U.S. troops riding atop an M8 Greyhound armored cars and M4 tanks. Animated map shows the extent of U.S. advance from Saint-Lô encompassing the entire Breton Peninsula. Then, it shows American forces swinging North and around to the West, trapping German forces at Falaise. A German Tiger tank, camouflaged in shrubbery, moving along a road, followed by motorcycle, and trucks full of German soldiers retreating from the trap at Falaise. Brief closeups of German soldiers in some of the vehicles. A German FW-190 fighter-bomber seen flying very fast and low toward the camera. An explosion. View of British and Canadian soldiers coordinating in the field, further South of Caen, working to keep German armor surrounded in the area. A battery of British heavy artillery guns firing from camouflaged positions. An American 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 (called M7 Priest by the British) firing from a wooded area. Shells exploding in the distance. German soldiers sheltering from the shelling. Fires burning. Allied jeep driving past knocked out German tanks. A field ambulance leads a long column of German prisoners of war. They march four abreast with hands clasped over their heads. A convoy of Allied heavy duty trucks bringing supplies from beachheads to the front lines. (World War 2; WW II; WW2)
Allied air attack and German defense in the city of Caen during the Invasion of Normandy, France in World War 2.
German newsreel about the Invasion of Normandy region of France in World War 2. English narration overlaid on the newsreel by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. A German soldier looks through binoculars. Artillery units move forward. North American bomber flies over. German Anti Aircraft batteries in action. Bombers drop bombs. Wreckage in the city of Caen. German pursuit planes fly to break U.S. plane formation. Ruins in the city following bombing by Allied air forces. French refugee civilians leaving the bombed city. German divisions of tanks and mobile artillery underway. Allied armed divisions air troopers and paratroopers captured. U.S. Sherman tanks knocked out. Bullet holes in the tanks. German troops advance. Germans soldiers fire rifles, machine guns and rockets.
Allied reinforcement and resupply operations on Omaha Beach, Normandy, several days after D-day, in World War II
View of Omaha Beach,and Allied reinforcement and resupply operations following the D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Barrage balloons above the shoreline. Boats in the water, some sunken. Large supply ships and Landing Crafts tank (LCTs) moving Sherman tanks,armored vehicles, jeeps, trucks and equipment ashore. Wounded Allied soldiers being carried on litters to be ferried out to the larger ships. British Army soldiers holding their ears as they fire mortars. Scottish troops setting up outside Caen and exchanging mortar fire with German defenders. Scottish soldiers cleaning weapons. One with a pet cat. Scots soldiers crawling through grass and firing machine guns. Jeep with red cross carrying wounded on litters. Battle in city of Caen. Allied soldier carrying wounded comrade on his back. Medical dressing station set up in the city. MPs and medics tending to wounded. Army ambulance rushing wounded to field hospital behind the lines. Medical team performing surgery on wounded soldier. Narrator says they could not stop bleeding. View of dog tags on a white stake in the ground signifying burial spot for a dead soldier.
Planes dropping incendiaries, Canadian soldiers capture Caen from German forces (WW2)
Canadian soldiers advancing through the city of Caen during the Battle of Caen in World War 2. Canadian Sherman tanks outside Caen. Several Canadian 25pdr SP tracked Sexton self-propelled artillery vehicles firing. Planes dropping incendiaries. Canadian soldiers, some wearing helmets covered in foliage for camouflage, carefully move through field. A German prisoner throws up his hands and surrenders to Canadian forces. A burning armored vehicle. A Canadian soldier during a mop-up of a destroyed house. Canadian soldiers walk through rubble in Caen. A British Churchill Tank AVRE underway in Caen. Bombed houses in Caen as Canadian soldiers perform a mop-up operation.
Allied Infantrymen and military vehicles move inland from Normandy to Carentan, France, and build bridge at Carentan
10 days after D-Day. Allied Forces progressing with invasion of Europe through Normandy during World War II. Infantry troops march and military vehicles move inwards to Carentan, about 3 miles in land from Normandy and Omaha Beach. A native woman talks to soldiers in the town of Carentan. A wounded soldier laying on a U.S. Army jeep in the town square in front of the Carentan Church. Soldiers use girders and continue construction of a bridge at Carentan. (Note: This appears to be "Tucker Bridge" at Carentan. The bridge was so-named after Major John Tucker, commanding the 300th Combat Engineers, was hit by enemy fire and killed during the initial construction of the bridge. The bridge provided important access to Cherbourg, St. Lo, and Caen. It was replaced in 1996 by a stone and concrete structure but it remains the Major John Tucker Bridge.) Two soldiers stand on the bridge and talk to each other.
U.S. 9th Air Force B-26 aircraft drop bombs on a communication center and marshaling yards in France during World War II.
U.S. 9th Air Force air attacks against France during World War II. Aerial views of the 9th Air Force L-5 Sentinel aircraft in flight on June 8, 1944. An aircraft flies over Allied camouflaged positions in France. Aerial views of an abandoned tank, abandoned parachutes and 155 mm gun emplacements. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauders in flight over a convoy of Allied ship in the English Channel. Smoke rises from a ship on fire. Smoke rises from the city of Caen. Marauders bombard a communication center and smoke rises. Bombs being dropped on communication lines and marshaling yards.
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