United States soldiers lined up near the stairway of a parish church in town. View of surroundings. United States troops salute. Major General Lawton Collins, Commander General of VII Army Corps presents Bronze and Silver star awards to the U.S. troops. General Lawton pins Silver Star on medic's field jacket. (World War II period).
Views from ships in the Normandy invasion convoy of World War 2. American flag above a ship and barrage balloon aloft. The British naval ensign on another ship. U.S. Motor torpedo boat USS PT-541 signalling by lights. Blinker light signals by Allied ship. Allied naval warships bombarding the French coast. Troops of 2nd assault wave climb down rope nets from transport ships. Allied fighter planes strafing German flak towers, german airplanes, and railroad trains. Allied troops leaving their transport ships in landing craft. Landing Craft Tank (Rocket),aka LCT(R) firing barrages of rockets. Allied B-26 and B-24 bombers attacking ground targets. Allied troops being hampered by obstacles and some falling to German gunfire as they hit the beaches of Normandy. Survivors of sunk and damaged landing craft being helped ashore. British landing craft firing at beach houses. U.S. troops pinned under shore cliffs at Omaha Beach. Soldiers giving blood plasma to wounded. British troops leaving landing craft. Allied troops on beachhead and moving inland. U.S. troops wading ashore. Troops wading ashore from LCI(L)-537. An American M4 Sherman wading tank (with intake and exhaust funnels) and equipped with dozer blade, labeled: DT-7.
From "He Has Seen War", scenes of badly disfigured dead bodies of Japanese and American soldiers killed on islands in the Pacific, during World War 2. Corpses of U.S. Marines on a beach. Soldiers dig out dead bodies from mud. Body of U.S. soldier, in mud, being fingerprinted for identification. American dead lying in a field, each with a white covering. Bodies kept under a white cover on a ship. A cemetery of dead soldiers. American dead, each draped in an American flag, being buried at sea. Exhausted and wounded soldiers walk out of a Landing Craft Vehicle. Group of tired U.S. Army soldiers look at camera with blank, exhausted, saddened faces. Sad and depressed war struck civilians. U.S. soldier lifts body of little girl from under rubble and debris. U.S. Army soldier seated beside a grieving civilian family. A dead boy lies between them. They sadly cover his body. Wounded U.S. soldier on stretcher cries out in pain. Soldiers walking in long lines to or from battle. Faces of war-hardened U.S. Soldiers and Marines. Narrator describes the nature of what these soldiers have seen and that they will be changed by their experiences.
Allied troops undergo training during World War 2, in North Devon, England. Sign reads ‘War Department - Danger - Keep Out’. Allied troops train on an obstacle course. Troops fire guns in prone position and scale cliffs during the training. Men row a boat in rough sea. In Germany, Nazi Generals confer and plan strategies.
United States amphibious and support ships engaged in pre-invasion maneuvers, off England, during World War II. Aerial view of numerous ships with war materiel. Ships heading for a coast. Landing craft head for a beach.
A film titled: 'Army Photographer' depicts activities of army cameramen during World War II. Soldiers fire guns during a war in the European Theater. Smoke rises from bursting of shells on a battlefield. Firing of a cannon. Other soldiers fire rifles and advance on the field. Airplanes fly in formation overhead. An army officer views reconnaissance photographs. Army personnel receive medals. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt seated with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Cameramen take photographs.