Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. A patrol craft passes in the English Channel. A DUKW (amphibious truck) at sea. A Coast Guard officer wearing a foul weather jacket and a blue hat looks through binoculars. The officer smokes a cigar. The bow of a Landing Craft Infantry underway at sea. A U.S. Coast Guard officer takes a bearing with a magnetic compass. Two soldiers on a 20 mm gun mount as one of them wears goggles. An aircraft flies overhead. Two U.S. Navy TBM Mariner aircraft pass overhead. Church services being conducted aboard a ship. A man plays an organ as an officer conducts the service. A congregation of coast guard men and sailors at the church services.
Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. A navy band plays various musical instruments on the deck of a ship underway in the English Channel. Sailors listen to the music. The sailors play saxophone and other instruments. A sailor sings into a microphone. A bass fiddle player at the microphone and the rest of the band in the background.
Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Normandy task force including landing crafts underway in the English Channel. An LCT(Landing Craft Tank), an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) and an LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) underway in rough seas. The LCI dead at water and three LCTs underway in the background. Soldiers attach a block to a LCVP. An LCVP alongside a transport ship as it tries to back over it. The LCVP fails to back over the transport ship and moves away. A hook being secured to boat falls of the LCVP. The boat falls hooked onto the LCVP and the LCVP being hoisted away. A man climbs a Jacob's ladder onto a boat boom with an LCVP below. A boat crew climbs a Jacob's ladder. An LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized) alongside a transport ship.
Elements of Allied D-Day invasion fleet underway in the English Channel, as viewed from a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI), during World War 2. U.S. Coast Guard 83-foot crash boat, Number 6, of Rescue Flotilla One, cruising along near the U.S. Attack Transport, USS Samuel Chase. A line of other ships underway,behind.
United States fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean, English Channel, on D-Day during the Invasion of France. A Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) founders. Personnel are removed from the LCVP and are taken aboard a ship.
Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. A U.S. Army Major General, with other officers, standi next to a communications vehicle on a landing ship in the English Channel. They all wear flotation belts around their waists. The General speaks into a microphone from the communications vehicle. A 173 foot Patrol Craft displaying the number 17, moves near a sunken landing craft.