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A gun battery aboard a ship fires and shells hit the French coast along the English Channel.

Naval activities in the English Channel during World War II. The English channel near the French coast. Shells hit the French coast. Smoke rises from the coast. A gun battery aboard a ship fires.

Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067157
A swamped LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) sinks and the crew is rescued in the English Channel during D-Day operations.

A fleet of landing crafts and warships in the English Channel for the D-Day invasion of France during World War II. A swamped LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) sinks. The crew swims in the Channel. The crew is rescued. Landing crafts, merchant vessels and warships in the English Channel. A stalled DUKW is pulled ashore by a bulldozer.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070901
Sailors battle using bucket brigade and douse fire aboard German Minelayer underway in the English Channel, Atlantic Ocean.

British aircraft attack German Minelayer underway in the English Channel, Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Burning minelayer. German sailors battle aboard minelayer by using bucket brigade. A fireboat comes along the ship and men douse fire. Crippled minelayer is towed.

Date: 1944, October 21
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072999
German Navy operates controls of engine order telegraph abroad German Minelayer underway in the English Channel, Atlantic Ocean.

British aircraft attacks German Navy Minelayer ship underway in the English Channel, Atlantic Ocean during World War II. German warship underway. Blinker signal aboard ship. Signal man operates controls of engine order telegraph. German sailors talk on telephone. Interior of the engine room. Depth charges are dropped at sea. Depth charges explode around torpedo boats.

Date: 1944, October 21
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073000
U.S. soldiers transfer K-rations aboard transport underway in English Channel a day before D-Day landings of World War II.

U.S. troop transport underway in English Channel shortly before D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. U.S. flag flies from a ship. Gun positions on transport. Life preserver on ship. K rations are transferred on transport by cargo nets where they are stacked by U.S. sailors. U.S. soldier on deck of transport reads from a book.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074620
Allied soldiers aboard ships underway in the English Channel heading towards Normandy, France during World War II.

Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. An Allied soldier wearing a life jacket sleeps aboard a ship underway in the English Channel on their way to Normandy, France. An LST (Landing Ship Tanks) underway and a man in the foreground. Barrage balloons fly overhead. A soldier relaxes on the deck of an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry). A British LCT (Landing Craft Tank) underway and sailors in the foreground. Two soldiers relax on the deck of a ship as one of them smokes a cigarette. A column of British LCTs underway as the American flag flies in the foreground.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078096