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U.S. soldiers boarding LCI during preparations of D-Day for Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II.

U.S. troops boarding a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) the day before D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allies during World War 2. Several white sailor hats are drying on a clothes line on deck. Soldiers in full field packs crowd the deck.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037050
U.S. soldiers relaxing on deck of a landing craft, the day before D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II.

American soldiers relaxing aboard deck of a Landing Craft Infantry on June 5th, the day before D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War 2. A group of soldiers is amused as one of them looks through a pair of binoculars. Eventually, the subject of his interest is seen to be an English woman standing in the doorway of her ground floor flat, looking at the soldiers through her own binoculars. The soldiers try to attract her attention by waving. Laundry seen drying on a line near the woman.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037051
U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant briefs Coast Guardsmen and soldiers on deck of LCI before Normandy invasion in World War II

The day before D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allies during World War 2. A Coast Guard Lieutenant briefs Coast Guard crewmen and several officers and soldiers, on deck of a Landing Craft Infantry that will be taking part in the cross-channel invasion of France.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037052
Newsreel 'Allied Generals in London to map strategy of war' (WW2)

Allied leaders including General Eisenhower, General Montgomery and General Arthur Tedder meet in London to plan invasion of mainland Europe in World War II. Cameramen take their photographs. The Generals map the invasion attack. view of amassed Allied fighter planes, spare engines, propellers, replacement parts, and stacks of munitions, incendiary bombs, shells, and various bombs are seen being readied for use in invasion.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040785
Royal Air Force action in Battle of Britain during World War II as captured on gun cameras.

A film titled "R.A.F. Mastery Holds Up German Onrush." At beginning, the film shows a rugged air field filled with British Royal Air Force fighter and interceptor aircraft, during World War 2. A fuel truck is seen and Narrator states the aircraft are refueled quickly when they return from missions. Among the aircraft seen are two-place Boulton Paul Defiant interceptors, and single-place fighter aircraft. Closeup of gun camera, used in wings of Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire aircraft, being removed from a plane while it is being serviced. Ground crewman displays the camera and then installs it into the wing of an aircraft. Next, Hurricane and Spitfire aircraft are seen taking off from the air field. Closeup aerial view of a Spitfire aircraft aloft among clouds. A flight of three German Heinkel 111 bombers (He 111) is seen in formation. The spitfire aircraft pursues them. Gun camera film appears to show the RAF fighter firing at a Heinkel bomber. But suddenly it shows gun camera from RAF fighter firing at a German Junkers 87 (Ju 87) Stuka dive bomber. Motion of the film is stopped momentarily as the German plane is struck and burning. Then it resumes and the RAF fighter pulls up and away. More gun camera images shows German bombers being struck by gun fire. Gun camera film pauses to show German aircrew bailing out of the stricken bomber. Another gun camera image shows pieces of a German bomber being blown off the plane by RAF gunfire. Next, British gun camera shows firing at a German Dornier 17 bomber (Do 17), which gets hit in the left wing and rolls over with its left wing on fire. Another German plane (possibly a Junkers 88 (Ju 88), with its landing gear extended) being shot to pieces. Scene shifts to ground where burning wreckage of destroyed German planes is seen, as RAF fighters land in the background. RAF fighter pilot climbs out of his aircraft cockpit. Next, a group of returning British pilots walks toward the camera. Their parked aircraft are in the background.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041004
Ground crewmen assisting British Spitfire fighter pilots in the Battle of Britain during World War II

A ground crewman assists the pilot as he adjusts his seat and shoulder harness, in the cockpit of a British Spitfire fighter plane of RAF 41 Squadron (Code "EB") at RAF Station Hornchurch, during World War II. He stands by as the pilot starts his engine, and then removes the battery start cart (accumulator trolley) as the aircraft starts to taxi. Brief glimpse of a ground crewman on the wing of a Spitfire aircraft that has just parked. An assistant passes him a tool, as the pilot climbs out of the cockpit. Spitfire aircraft taxiing and taking off. Several are barely seen in flight high overhead.

Date: 1940, September
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041005