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Personnel from a foundering LCVP are taken aboard a ship in the English Channel on D-Day

United States fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean, English Channel, on D-Day during the Invasion of France. A Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) founders. Personnel are removed from the LCVP and are taken aboard a ship.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046302
Various landing craft near barrage balloons, underway in the English Channel on D-Day (WW2)

Ships and landing craft of the United States fleet underway off the coast of Normandy on D-Day for the Invasion of France in World War II. Landing Craft Tanks (LCTs) and Landing Craft Command (LCCs) on way to a beach. A Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) in the convoy with barrage balloons. A Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) en route towards the beach.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046304
Preparations in England for the D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War II

World War 2 invasion of Normandy, France. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marshal Joseph Stalin, and Prime Minister Churchill, meeting at Tehran, Iran, in December 1943. U.S. Generals George Marshall and Hap Arnold, at conference table. Closeup of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Map showing defense areas of the German 7th, 15th and 19th Armies in Europe. Map showing ports at Brest, Cherbourg, Le Havre, Dieppe, and Calais. Cherbourg is highlighted. U.S. Army trucks, tanks, and artillery, stockpiled in England. Railroad train carrying M3 Stuart tanks. U.S soldiers leaving troop ships and marching to their camps in Britain. Allied troops practicing amphibious assaults on Southern coast of England. Formation of B-26 bombers.View from Allied aircraft flying low over German-occupied area. B-17dropping bombs over Germany. Bombs away view seen as bombs drop toward enemy targets. German fighter planes attacking B-17 bombers beginning in February 1944. Gunner in turret of B-17 firing at them. A B-17 exploding in the air. German fighter downed by B-17 gunner. Gun camera footage of German Bf 109 attacked from rear by gunfire. American soldiers in trucks, DUKWs, M4 tanks, and M8 armored Cars. Troops receive gas masks, waist life belts, field rations, and French money. May 30, 1944, American soldiers board tanks, trucks and other vehicles bound for embarkation points in England. Seen are Stuart M3 light tanks, jeeps, and M7 Priest tanks. M7 tanks are seen, equipped with intake and exhaust ducts. (At TC:11:39, U.S. M7 Priest tanks,equipped for deep wading, are seen passing the base of the Jubilee clock on the beachfront at Weymouth, on their way toward Castle Town in Portland for embarkation.) Transport ships are loaded at the embarkation ports. Trucks being backed onto LCT-453. U.S. Army infantry marching and boarding transport ships. Troops marching into LST 376 at Plymouth, England. Higgins Boats, from the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) bringing troops to board her. Troops on deck of Attack transport, USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13). Barrage balloons overhead. Soldiers shooting craps on a troop ship deck. Coastguardsmen playing with a puppy dog. Gun crews on U.S. Navy warship being briefed. Soldiers field-strip and check their weapons

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 15 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046315
Allied movements including dispatch of Airborne units, the day before D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War II

Final preparations for the D-day invasion of Normandy, France, in World War 2. View of the USS Augusta (CA-31). Allied senior commanders on the Augusta, making decision to delay invasion 24 hours for weather. U.S. Army Airborne troops boarding buses for airfields in England. Formations of B-26 bombers overhead. B-17 bombing lines of communication. Invasion convoy ships underway. Gliders and C-47 tow planes in D-day stripes. C-47 aircrews and glider pilots being briefed. Brigadier General James Gavin, Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, briefing his paratroopers. Chaplain conducting religious services. General Dwight D Eisenhower visiting paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division. U.S. paratroopers boarding their C-47 transport planes. Troopers fastening parachute packs (parapacks) of equipment onto a C-47 for airdrop. Paratroopers loading their equipment onto a Waco CG-4A glider. Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne putting on their chutes and equipment. Jumpmaster checking each soldier's chute. The troopers helping one another as they board the aircraft. C-47 tow planes taking off with gliders behind. All planes in D-day white stripes.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 4 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046316
U.S. infantry of the American Expeditionary Forces march jointly with French infantry during World War I

American and French Army officers, on horseback, salute as a French and American infantry parade on a field in France during World War 1. The American and French flags are carried and various contingents of troops carry their respective identifying colors. Mounted officers accompany their units. General John J.Pershing reviews the joint French-American parade with French President Raymond Poincare and French Prime Minister Paul Painleve. French and American staff officers stand in the background. Animated map show the U.S. flag being overlayed on a smoldering Europe. A U.S. Stars & Stripes shield. (Note: Interestingly, only infantry units participate in this parade. No cavalry, or artillery are involved and rifles are the only weapons seen.)

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063075
Demonstrations after the speech by French President Charles de Gaulle in Montreal,Canada.

French President Charles de Gaulle visits Montreal, Canada. A large crowd gathers on the streets. The French President Charles de Gaulle gives a speech including the 'Free Quebec' slogan of French-Canadian separatists. The Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson speaks against the French President. A demonstration by the crowd. Policemen arrest a few demonstrators. President Charles de Gaulle returns to France. Cars passing on the street. People crowd on the streets in large number.

Date: 1967, July 28
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063264