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German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini discuss strategies for war in the European Theater.
Officials confer during World War II. Allied war material stacked on a port in England, including U.S. tanks, trailers, razor wire, fencing, and trucks in preparation for invasion of Europe in 1944. American and British soldiers work and load the supplies for their shipment to the war front. U.S. soldiers unload at a beach site. British Army soldiers roll a covered artillery piece . It has a chalk handwritten label on the gun barrel that says, "Slim's Deadly Poison" and an image of skull and cross bones. Laborers building a German fortification in coastal France. German General viewing English Channel from coastal fortification along the Atlantic Wall. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini confer in a meeting. The officials discuss strategies for the war over a large map. Newspapers with English headlines speculating about the coming Allied invasion. George Marshall and other Allied officers of the War Council of the united nations assembled at a large conference table and in discussion for the Invasion of Europe (D-Day invasion of France).
Mix of dramatized and actual footage: Dramatized German officers describe "Divide and Conquer Policy"; actual D-Day footage scenes in World War 2
A U.S. Army training film titled 'Teamwork' from 1946. Several actors portraying Nazi officers. Nazi officer briefs his officer on their 'Divide and Conquer Policy' for the Americans in a German Headquarters looking building. Actual World War 2 footage is seen at start of film showing the building of the German Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in Germany. After that, actual combat footage begins at TC:02:34,with views of the German defenses on the Western Wall, at the coast of France. German soldiers man an anti-aircraft gun in a hill, as others march loosely along the shoreline. Several Allied warships are seen in formation headed toward the camera, during the D-Day invasion, June 6, 1944. Next, numerous warships fire their guns, bombarding the Normandy coast. Numerous landing craft (Higgins boats) swarm toward the coast. View from bridge of a LCI(M) (landing craft, infantry - mortar) as it fires its mortars approaching the beachhead. Explosions from the mortar fire. Rockets being launched from Landing Crafts Tank (Rocket). Higgins boats reaching the shore and troops leaving them for the beach. American troops running from the shore after landing, and taking up positions firing small arms. A soldier placing a demolition charge at a German bunker and running from it as it explodes. Famous footage of American troops being shot as they advance on D-Day. Medics tending to wounded on the shore. Medic caring for a wounded African American soldier as they shelter under chalk cliffs at Normandy beachhead. U.S. troops moving inland from their beachhead.
American fighter aircraft interdicting lines of communication on D-Day, World War 2
A film titled 'Fighter kills on D-Day'. 8th Air Force fighter aircraft interdict lines of communication in support of the Allied invasion of France on D-day, June 6, 1944. Views from their gun cameras as they strafe railroad lines, marshaling yards, and highways, destroying trains, trucks, and German military vehicles. Several large explosions result when munitions and the like are struck.
Beginning of the D-Day invasion of France, during World War II
U.S. Paratroopers boarding C-47 aircraft, on June 5th, 1944 during World War 2. Huge naval task force underway in the English Channel. C-47s loaded with paratroopers taking off, the evening of June 5th. C-47s taking off towing gliders. Formations of C-47s and gliders passing over the Naval task force in the English Channel. Three pet dogs with troops on one of the ships.
German tanks and rockets fire at Russian positions on Eastern Front. Germans defend against Allied invasion forces in France
German Pz.III, Panther and Tiger tanks firing and Stuka-zu-Fuss rockets firing at Russian positions on Eastern Front, during World War II. Burning vehicle. Panther G of 12th SS Panzer Division (Hitler Jugend) fires on Canadian positions in mid-June 1944, in Normandy. Empty shells.thrown out of tank by German crewman. Scenes of smoke and fire.
U.S. troops in Scotland rehearse for amphibious invasion of Normandy, France during World War II
Higgins Boats (landing craft) from the USS Bayfield (APA-33) are seen heading toward the shore on the River Clyde in Scotland, where they carried out amphibious landing exercises from 14 March, through 21 March,1944, in preparation for the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War 2.. Snow-covered mountains dominate the background. View of a U.S. Coast Guardsman standing in one of the boats. Several landing craft are seen near the shore in the background. Snow extends almost as low as the beach. Several landing craft moving in loose formation across the water, with rising moon low on horizon in background. View of one Higgins Boat plowing through the water, towards the camera. The moon is now higher in the sky. American troops wading ashore through surf, in the moonlight. Some stars are visible high in the background sky. Troops coming ashore along a wide stretch of beach. Clouds obscure the sky.