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A swamped LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) sinks and the crew is rescued in the English Channel during D-Day operations.

A fleet of landing crafts and warships in the English Channel for the D-Day invasion of France during World War II. A swamped LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) sinks. The crew swims in the Channel. The crew is rescued. Landing crafts, merchant vessels and warships in the English Channel. A stalled DUKW is pulled ashore by a bulldozer.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070901
British soldiers prepare for their coast defenses and German railroad guns hurl shells over the English Channel in England.

The film 'Churchill's Island' about Germany's successive attacks over England during World War II. British soldiers near artillery at a coast. Views of the British Channel. The soldiers observe through binoculars. A gun barrel. British soldiers prepare for their air raid protection. Soldiers atop a building observe through binoculars. Pedestrian traffic on a road. People on bicycles. British people work in ordnance factories. View of aircraft wheel folding into airplane under construction. View of bomb bay with bombs loaded opening on a plane under construction. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, speaks. A German railroad gun driven on a ramp. Shells in the railroad gun. German soldiers close their ears as the railroad guns hurl shells over the English Channel. Views of the railroad guns and explosions over the English Channel. An officer stands leaning against a wall and speaks. The wing of a taxiing German aircraft. Other aircraft in the background. German aircraft in flight. A British soldier holding a gun runs across a field. A British soldier on a motorbike. Soldiers stand on a tank. Two soldiers with artillery. Policemen get ready. They move out of a building on a motorbike. Policemen help people to move underground as an alarm rings. Officials in front of a map inside a hall.

Date: 1941
Duration: 4 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032047
England and France declare war on Germany; German troops conquer Denmark and Norway during World War II

World War 2. Britain (United Kingdom) and France declare war on Germany. German infantry carrying Panzerschreck antitank weapons. British troops mobilizing for war. Sign reads "A Call to Arms." Groups of new recruit British soldiers marching in large columns, including soldiers from Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa. British Queen Elizabeth class battleship with other warships. Animated map showing units of British fleet blockading Germany at Suez, Malta, Gibralter, the English Channel,and the North Sea. Adolf Hitler and German General staff make war plans. Animated map shows European countries around Germany. Ice skaters near Windmills in Holland. Farmers harvest grain. Bicyclists in Netherlands. Radio towers broadcast Nazi propaganda. Joseph Goebbels. Hitler denying intent to harm other countries. German military planners identify Norway as a target. Map shows German U-boats using Norwegian fjords. Map shows British fleet at Scapa Flow, and blockading ships in range from Norway. April 9, 1940, German army enters Copenhagen as Danes watch. German freighters in Norwegian ports smuggle troops and war materiel. German warships proceeding up Norwegian fjords, carrying troops and equipment. German Ju-87 and Ju-88 bombers and Me 109 aircraft in flight. Ju-88 over treetops. Junkers Ju-52 trimotor aircraft carrying German soldiers. Quislings seize power in Norway. View of Vidkun Quisling. Nazi posting up rules for citizen residents of Oslo Norway.

Date: 1939
Duration: 7 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038485
German aircraft are shot down after attacking British Merchant Shipping vessels in the English Channel during World War 2

German air attack on British ships in the English Channel during Battle of Britain in World War II. British ships underway in the English Channel. German Stukas in flight. Explosions occur at sea as German aircraft bombard a British merchant convoy. British Royal Air Force Hurricane aircraft fly across camera. Vapor trails in the sky. RAF Hurricane aircraft being shot down. British soldiers look at a wrecked German Junkers 88 dive bomber aircraft.

Date: 1940, August 5
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057749
A gun battery aboard a ship fires and shells hit the French coast along the English Channel.

Naval activities in the English Channel during World War II. The English channel near the French coast. Shells hit the French coast. Smoke rises from the coast. A gun battery aboard a ship fires.

Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067157
U.S. soldiers board troop transport underway in English Channel a day before D-Day landings of World War II.

U.S. troop transport underway in English Channel shortly before D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. U.S. soldiers board troop transport in English Channel by climbing landing nets.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074619