Allied ships and aircraft invade Normandy during D-Day landings in World War 2. Overhead view of PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) alongside ship as it heads towards shore. Allied aircraft flying, approaching Normandy beachheads. POV of United States infantrymen on an LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) approaching Normandy. A bomber (Martin B-26 Marauder) flies over the English Channel. Two bombers (Martin B-26 Marauder) flying over Normandy. Aerial view of Normandy being bombed by bomber planes. Smoke from bomb attack in Normandy. Aerial view of various areas bombed in Normandy from Allied invasion. Two British commandos with faces darkened by camouflage makeup look towards shore from landing craft. Allied ships, LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) and LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) ships sailing towards Normandy beachheads. Bomb explodes on ship off the coast of Normandy.
Allied bombers drop bombs over Normandy during D-Day in World War 2. A US Army Air Forces Martin B-26 Marauder with D-Day invasion stripes in flight. Aerial view of Allied vessels sailing towards Normandy’s beachheads. A United States Army Air Forces fighter with D-Day invasion stripes flying over the English channels to watch over ships. POV allied fighters fire at German planes on the ground. German planes burst into flames. A German plane on the ground explodes violently. A Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber drops bombs over Normandy. Aerial view of bombs falling and exploding in train switch yard.
The sailing of the Free French 2nd Armored Division on the English Channel to France during World War 2. Groups of soldiers standing and sitting on deck. Soldiers start singing, merrymaking as a group. Soldier playfully touches his friend’s hat, also tapping his shoulder. A French soldier smiles, begins to sing. Free French Algerian soldiers stroking a pet rabbit. An Algerian soldier showing their pet rabbit on camera.
Various military vehicles in transport to Allied forces-held Cherbourg, France during World War 2. The roof of a Red Cross truck. Free French soldiers going down with a rope net to a landing craft. A Red Cross truck is hoisted up from a ship, transferring to a landing craft. Soldiers and military vehicles such as trucks and armored carriers on a landing craft. A landing craft filled with soldiers and military vehicles, such as trucks and armored carriers, pulls away. A landing craft on the English Channel.
A German map depicting the French, British and Belgian cities located near the English Channel during World War II. German Luftwaffe pilots preparing their Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters. Luftwaffe Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) and night-fighter ace Helmut Lent briefing with officers. Helmut Lent smiling. A fighter spinner propeller begins to move. Helmut Lent’s Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter takes off from the airfield. A group of German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters taking off. German gunmen shooting at Allied aircraft with Flak 38 anti-aircraft gun. German crew with 88-mm FlaK-37 anti-aircraft artillery shooting at Allied aircraft in France. Crash site of a United States bomber shot down by German forces. Bent propellers and smoldering wreckage of crashed plane. A downed Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber captured by German forces after a belly landing. German troops capture United States crewmen standing next to parachutes and wrecked plane. German soldiers frisk captured crewmen. German soldiers lead captured crewmen away.
Operation Mulberry: Creation of an artificial harbor and bridges by the Seabees to support the invasion of France, in Normandy, France during World War II. Coast of the English Channel. Phoenix units of the artificial harbor lying off the coast of England. A Lobnitz pier head. Connected sections of bridge called whale units, and pontoon causeway. A Lobnitz pier that rises and falls with the tide at the end of the pontoon "whale" bridge.