(French dub) An announcer speaks invasion news into the microphone in New Caledonia, Australia. United States and French military personnel and civilians read news of invasion posted to outdoor bulletin board. Person holds up a copy of Yank magazine. Interviewer discusses invasion news with a French soldier and a New Caledonian housewife. Men and women go upstairs in a building. Women talk amongst themselves. Man teaches children outside a school. Girls on the bicycles on the street. Other civilians in discussion on the street. French flag on standard. (World War II period).
Signs on a board at beachhead in France. "Water point", "Collection and clearing station" indicated by the signs. United States military policemen directs vehicular traffic on the beach. Heavy traffic on the beachhead. United States soldiers carrying full field packs walk on the field.
U.S. Army soldiers and officers at the beachhead at Cherbourg Peninsula, France a little more than one week after D-Day invasion of France. Dignitaries on DUKW arrive at the beachhead. General Dwight D Eisenhower climbs over the side of the DUKW and jumps down to the ground. He walks in the area and then climbs into the back of a waiting Jeef. General Eisenhower, General George C Marshall, General Courtney Hodges and Admiral Ernest J King in jeep tour beachhead. Jeep moves along a street. Point of view shots from moving jeep as it drives between villages, passing a wrecked German tank and then a horsecart heading the other direction. Wrecked houses and buildings seen on the sides of the street as the jeeps enter Isigny-sur-Mer. The officers parked in a jeep in Isigny, driven by Private Louis E Kriston.
Soldiers stand at a field in Cherbourg Peninsula, France. They talk amongst themselves. A soldier smokes. House in the field. Signals on a board nearby the house. Wheel carts on the field. Soldiers walk on the field. Other soldiers sit on the wheel cart and rest. They drink water. Soldiers walk on the field with guns and luggage on their shoulders. (World War II period).
United States military policemen on a field in Cherbourg Peninsula, France. A house in the field. Other soldiers rest and talk amongst themselves outside the house. General Bradley, General Marshall, General Eisenhower, Adm king, Major General Maxwell D Taylor and other officers exit from a tent in the field. They walk on the field. General Eisenhower washes his face with water from a can. Dignitaries talk amongst themselves. (World War II period).
U.S. Secretary of War Stimson, General Omar Bradley, and U.S. General George S. Patton tour a field hospital in Normandy, France during World War II. Bradley poses outside a hospital tent with Secretary Stimson and an army doctor. Wounded soldiers in the tent. Signs on boards outside the tent. The United States Army generals visit a battlefield graveyard above Omaha Beach after D-Day. They drive down to Omaha Beach, still littered with equipment.. They look around. A flag on the beachhead. Soldiers stand on the field. Tents on the field. Soldiers work on the field.
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