United States paratroopers with camouflaged faces marching. The paratroopers board a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane in England during World War II. Some paratroopers talk near the plane. A paratrooper reads a document. A paratrooper unload bags from a plane and another one sits on top of the transport aircraft.
United States Army paratroopers with camouflaged faces carrying full packs as they march on a field in Normandy, France during World War II. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport planes taxi and park on airstrip in England. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane takes off. Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton is seen on airfield.
United States Army paratroopers march on airstrip in England during World War II. A paratrooper with a life jacket (Mae West) struggles to put on his pack while his colleagues assist him. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport planes taxi and take off on airstrip at dawn. Paratroopers carry supplies to transport planes. A paratrooper offers cigarettes to his colleague. Paratroopers smoke cigarettes. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane with its engine running. Some officials are seen standing near the transport plane. The paratroopers load supplies into the planes.
United States Army paratroopers hold a briefing near a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane in England during World War II. A paratrooper puts a life vest (Mae West) on another paratrooper. The paratroopers board the plane one by one. Paratroopers march on airstrip.
Major-General Thomas Gordon Rennie, Commander of the British Third Division, inspects landing craft preparations on the Solent strait at Gosport, England. Soldiers, vehicles, and supplies crowd on landing craft deck. A tank parks on landing craft deck. LCTs, destroyers, and other vessels anchored a day before D-Day. Barrage balloons flying above the ships. A crewman signals using flag semaphore above the deck. Camera moves to deck where soldiers are seen resting, playing card games, smoking, sleeping, beside vehicles as they wait for departure. A soldier reads a France guidebook. British soldiers reading books and eating and drinking. Some British troops sleep and chat under trucks.
United States soldiers lay canvas containers on the ground in Newbury, Berkshire, England during World War II. They roll out canvas and lay mortar shells on top of it. The soldiers wrap the mortar shells with the canvas. They attach the canvas containers with parachutes. Soldiers carry a wicker trunk. They open the trunk and place resupply field rations on the trunk. A small container with the label “U.S. ARMY FIELD RATION C”. They close the trunk. The soldiers attach a parachute on the wicker trunk before carrying it away.