U.S. soldiers of 1st Infantry Division and U.S. 5th Engineers Specialist Brigade prepare in England for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Personnel place a waterproof cover over an equipment in a landing craft. The equipment is placed with other equipment lying in the landing craft.
Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight Eisenhower talks to paratroopers of U.S. 101st Airborne Division in England, a day before the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. General Eisenhower inspects and talks to the paratroopers. Paratroopers with equipment on shoulders walk past tents. General Eisenhower speaks to men near airplanes.
Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight Eisenhower talks to paratroopers of U.S. 101st Airborne Division in England, a day before the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. General Eisenhower talks to Commander of 101st Airborne Division General Maxwell D. Taylor and other officers in front of a building. General Eisenhower inspects and talks to paratroopers. He walks through a crowd.
Army Signal Corps cameramen in England. They prepare to record and photograph the invasion of Europe. The army cameramen posing on the field. Men aboard a ship. Others standing near an airplane. They hold cameras in hands.
Damaged U.S. ships in England during World War II. Ships at a dock. Wreckage of the ships. Sailors and Seabees working on the wrecked parts of the ships. The weld and repair the ships. A landing craft at a shore. A freight car being unloaded from the landing craft.
German prisoners of war in Normandy, during World War 2. LCI(L) 541 is seen departing from Omaha beach, filled with German prisoners of war. Scene shifts to a pier in England, United Kingdom, where the German soldiers and officers are boarding an American Coast Guard troop ship, for transport to Prisoner of War centers in the United States. Aerial view of an ocean liner, converted to a troop ship, underway. Views of German POWs on a ship's deck.