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Senior U.S. Military Officers gather in Normandy after the Allied invasion in 1944

U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 transport plane, painted in D-Day invasion stripes, lands at improvised airstrip in Normandy, France,during World War 2. Barrage balloons surround the airstrip.The C-47 has numeral two painted by its U.S. star on fuselage. A second C-47 is seen on final approach to the airstrip. Foreground is marked by foxholes, possible shell holes and other signs of combat. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George S. Marshall and Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower are seen consulting with British Officer of the Scots Guards, who reads a military dispatch. Military Police stand guard in background. They are joined by Admiral Ernest J, King, USN, and Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, Commanding General, 1st Army . The military leaders board jeeps in a convoy. Lieutenant General Henry (Hap) Arnold, Commanding General, U.S Army Air Forces, seen briefly as he steps from a C-47 aircraft. Marshall, Eisenhower, and King, boarding jeeps. They look up as a U.S. Air Forces B-17 bomber flies low overhead. General Marshal conversing with a helmeted army soldier. Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN, Commander Western Naval Task Force, steps from a C-47 transport airplane, followed by General Eisenhower.General Marshall and General Bradley (with bandaged nose) riding in a jeep. General Eisenhower and Admiral King seated in a jeep. Convoy of senior officers passing several troops and military vehicles along a road. Air Forces General Arnold in front seat of a jeep.The jeeps arrive at a building.

Date: 1944, June 12
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039027
Allied victories over Nazis in European Theater in 1944 and 1945 during World War 2

Eastern Front battle of Soviet army as it repels the German Wehrmacht from a Soviet city, and captures German POW's. The German prisoners are marched into Soviet camps in winter snow covered landscape under guard of Russian Army soldiers. Aerial view of massive invasion force in English Channel on D-Day for the the Invasion of Normandy. View from landing craft of American infantry going ashore. Allied soldiers taking fire from German enemy during D-Day beach landings. Allied armies moving inland through France seen in combat with Germans in French villages and towns. Many German prisoners rounded-up and seen marching toward prison camps under British and U.S. Army guard.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058350
American soldiers of the 314th Infantry regiment, 79th Infantry Division, entering town as people cheer in Mamers, France; German prisoners in Argentan, France

U.S. Army soldiers of the 314th Infantry regiment, 79th Infantry Division, entering town as people cheer in Mamers, France on August 12, 1944 during liberation of France in World War 2. Next scene shifts to Argentan France on August 13, 1944, and shows German prisoners of war marching through the streets and assembling in courtyard at a monastery in Argentan. View of some Mongolians in a courtyard who were Russians pressed into service by the Germans. General George S Patton talking to Major General Lunceford E Oliver, CG of the 5th Armored Division. General Patton leaves in a jeep.

Date: 1944, August 12
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034887
German soldiers defend the coastline as Allies invade northern France on D-Day in World War 2.

German propaganda newsreel depicting German perspective defending against Allied Invasion of northern France on D-Day (June 6, 1944). German citizens at newsstand reading newspaper headlines announcing the Allied invasion of France. A map of northern France. Scenes from June 6, 1944 as Allied bombers attack the French coast during D-Day operations. German sailors on ships monitoring incoming Allied invasion. German Navy sailors and German soldier radio operators communicate, listening with headphones and operating morse code transmitters and radios as the Germans sound the alarm. German soldiers take their positions at coastal fortifications of the Atlantic Wall. They pile up shells and use search lights. German coastal guns and submarines fire at the Allied fleet in the English Channel. Night fighting. Artillery and ship guns fired. Explosions as Allied crafts are hit. Soldiers fire machine guns as the enemy approaches the coast. German officers and soldiers in German pillboxes. German submarine fires torpedo and an Allied ship explodes far in the distance. A German officer looks through binoculars to survey the damage.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021806
Allied soldiers prepare for D-Day invasion, and then land in France (WW2)

Allied campaign against Nazi Germany in 1944 during World War II. Tanks, artillery and supplies piled up in England for invasion of Europe. Allied soldiers from various Allied nations like Britain, America, New Zealand and South Africa gathered at docks. The soldiers loaded onto transport ships. Soldiers get into landing crafts. Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight D. Eisenhower at a map in Headquarters as he plans the invasion of France. The Allied invasion fleet underway in the English Channel to invade France. A map shows the location of Caen, France. Allied aircraft in flight and view at aircraft door as line of paratroopers jump. Massive group of parachutes in the sky as paratroopers descend. Explosions occur at a coast. Landing crafts beached and soldiers come ashore amidst heavy firing. Rockets and artillery being fired. Vehicles on the beach. A truck burns. A map depicts the area under Nazi German occupation before World War II and the recapture of those areas by Allied armies in 1944.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065884
Standard Oil Plant and Wifo Gasoline Depot at Gennevilliers in Paris bombed by the U.S. Eighth Air Force on June 22, 1944 in World War 2.

Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in and around German-occupied Paris during Wolrd War II. The adjoining Standard Oil Plant and German Wifo Gasoline Depot at Gennevilliers bombed by the U.S. Eighth Air Force heavy bombers on June 22, 1944. The destroyed manufacturing facilities, buildings, storage tanks, loading platforms, railroad tank cars. Damaged steel structures and collapsed roofs. Aerial view of the plant and the depot.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021872