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Allied forces prepare for D-Day, also known as 'Operation Overlord' (WW2)

'Eve of Battle' depicts the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. Slave labor from Nazi Germany-invaded countries construct Atlantic Wall. German artillery and fortifications in the Atlantic Wall. Nazi German soldiers marching in groups. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler shake hands with Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin sit together during the Tehran Conference in December 1943. Exiled Allied leaders such as General Charles de Gaulle of France, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Dr. Edvard Beneš of Czechoslovakia inspect Allied troops. Various Allied troops from Poland, Norway, England, United States, and Czechoslovakia prepare to launch an invasion in France. Eisenhower along with other officers plans the European invasion. Allied ships and aircraft on their way to Europe. Allied bombers drop bombs over Nazi German U-boats. Naval battle begins and explosions occur, smoky docks. In England war supplies unloaded. Supplies include weapons, military equipment, and food. A tank and locomotive trains being loaded into a ship bound for Europe. Allied aircraft take off at night. A man directs an aircraft taking off. Allied bombers bombard German targets resulting into fiery flare in Europe. British children playing jump rope as a supply train pass by in the background. Tanks and fighter planes transported by train. Supply boxes unloaded and stacked for transport to the battle front.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049407
Allies prepare to invade Europe during World War II.

Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. Allied weapons and equipment piled up in England to be transported to the battle front in Europe. Freight cars and flat railroad cars carry equipment to the war front. Tanks, military trucks and artillery lined up. Pile of shell and other military equipment stacked up in Britain. Men of Home Guard and women of Auxiliary Territorial Services guard the equipment against German air attacks. Allies engaged in a Naval battle. Minesweepers clear mines, seaplanes in flight and ships underway at sea.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049408
Allied air invasion of Europe during World War II.

Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. Allied aircraft take off to invade German targets during World War II. United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers and Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighters in flight. Allied aircraft including the British Royal Air Force Aircraft (RAF) bombard the German highways, oil refineries and production centers. Allied infantry also advances towards the German territory. Paratroopers land as their parachutes descend. Allied aircraft take off. P-51 Mustangs flown by Poles and Mitchell by men of British Commonwealth. Aircraft strafe German installations and drop bombs causing a pillar of smoke to rise.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 5 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049409
Allied troops rehearse and land in Europe during World War II.

Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. Allied ships at harbors in England carry military equipment, medicines, food and other supplies. Allied soldiers rehearse landing soldiers load in landing crafts, tanks and artillery unloaded from a ship. On the day of the invasion soldiers climb down a ladder along the side of a ship and load in landing crafts. Crafts move beach wards. Soldiers land amidst heavy firing. Barrage balloons fly over head as Allied troops make amphibious landings in Europe.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 5 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049410
German artillery fired at Russian front during World War II.

Axis troops during World War II. German soldiers load shells in an artillery and fire at Russian front. Shells explode at sea. Russian soldiers run for their lives. A Russian tank burns. Russian soldiers lay dead on a beach. Soldiers on boats at the beach. Russian tanks in water demolished by German fire.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675049659
Military vehicles and cargoes are loaded aboard a ship in advance of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France in World War II

Allied equipment and vehicles loaded onto transport ship before the invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. Slate,referring to the Allied invasion reads "D-Day -4." View on Deck of a ship as heavy hawser line is cranked around a winch drum. A jeep is seen being lowered into the hold of the ship. Closeup of two American soldiers riding in another jeep being lowered below in the ship. View from above as the jeep is lowered deep into the ship's hold. Back on deck, a large diesel engine secured by chains is carefully guided by sailors as it moves toward its stowage space. Glimpse of a welder making a repair on the ship's superstructure. A sailor securing a life boat on deck. Other sailors control the loading of a cargo net filled with boxes of supplies.

Date: 1944, June 2
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049849