Allied flyers (mostly American) who escaped from internment in Switzerland, pose in front of a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 transport airplane, at Annecy Airfield, France, during World War 2. A C-47 seen taking off from the field.
The newly appointed French prefecture of police, Charles Luizet, at his desk in Paris, France. He reads a document and speaks with men in his office. A wounded man in the office. Girls speaks over phones sitting next to the wounded man. A girl types on a typewriter. During Liberation of Paris.
U.S. Army troop reinforcements arriving at Omaha Beachhead and moving inland, during invasion of Normandy, France, in World War 2, in the days immediately following D-Day. (They are moving along a gradual rise overlooking the beach, that appears to be near Colleville Sur Mer, coordinates WN-62.) U.S. LST-281 discharging cargo of Army vehicles, including trucks and halftracks. A DUKW amphibious vehicle driving out of the surf. Sherman M4 tanks with deep wading kits; one named, "Goldie." Troops unload supplies from a beached Rhino Barge. More landing craft approaching the beach. Coast Guardsmen manning antiaircraft guns. Barrage balloons aloft. Antiaircraft guns firing, at night,from the beachhead, at German bombers, overhead.
Broad view of Allied beachhead, at Omaha Beach, in Normandy, France, during the invasion in World War 2. Numerous supply vessels, offshore, are making use of Mulberry A artificial harbor created from Phoenix caissons and sunken Gooseberry blockships. Vehicles driving ashore from a landing craft. A Coast Guard Officer looks from shore, through binoculars. In a later sequence, stormy seas are seen pounding Mulberry A Harbor. A sailor moves hand-over-hand, above a sunken section, by means of a line, to LCI(L) 492. After the storm, damaged ships are seen. An 83 ft. Coast Guard Cutter (rescue boat) number 20, is beached,along with landing craft , barges, and other vessels.
Invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. An AG-2 (Aerographer's Mate) comes out of a hatch with a balloon and goes onto the bridge of a ship. A man sending a semaphore in the background. The AG-2 brings the balloon upon the deck and attaches it to a 24" searchlight to hold it down. He then gets his tripod and sets it up. A Coast Guardsman brings out a weather instrument to take a sight on the balloon. Ships being tied in the background. The AG-2 puts the weather instrument on the tripod and looks through an eye piece. He turns the balloon loose. The balloon goes skyward. He looks through his sight and makes some adjustment. The AG-2 looks through the eye piece and make adjustments on the instrument.
view of a building in Annecy, France, during World War 2. Flags of Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and Poland displayed together. A busy street with many bicyclists. A truck driving on a road carrying a group of American flyers who have escaped internment in Switzerland. The flyers, in civilian clothes, smile and wave at the camera from the back of the truck. Change of scene to front view of the truck arriving at Annecy airfield. some flyers are riding on the fenders and running boards of the truck. view of German prisoners of war clearing stones from a field near the airfield runway. A C-47 transport aircraft landing on the field, in background. The German POWs pose for the camera. Cyclists on a dirt road near the airfield, pause to watch a C-47 taking off. Children on bicycles wave to the camera. View again, of German prisoners clearing stones from the field. Local children looking to the sky for airplanes.