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Allied invasion fleet underway prior to D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II.

From a recap of Allied actions leading to invasion of Normandy (D-Day) in World War II. Allied warplanes in flight as American and British seaborne forces head for rendezvous off the Isle of Wight. American B-26 and B-17 bombers in action. Ground targets in Normandy being bombed by Allied bombers. Invasion fleet makes dash across the English Channel. From edited film produced in 1947.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060455
Allied naval ships bombard coast of Normandy during D-Day invasion in World War II.

Recap ot the Allied invasion at Normandy, in World War II. Convoy reaches Normandy on D-Day. Allied fleet heads for Normandy beach. Blinker signals being given from ships. Naval ships start to fire broadsides and bombard coasts. Allied troops board landing crafts alongside ships. U.S. P-51 fighters and B-26s strafe flak towers, railroads, and canals in Normandy. Troops offload onto assault boats and landing craft. Rockets being fired from ships toward coastal positions of the enemy. Bombs being dropped over ground targets from Allied bombers. Smoke billows up from bomb explosions. Naval guns bombard a coast. From edited film produced in 1947.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060457
Allied forces hold air superiority in battle of Saint Mihiel during World War I.

This film shows numerous types and models of World War One aircraft in operation. It opens showing Allied airplanes preparing for a maximum air campaign in the battle of Saint Mihiel. View from inside a hanger as its flap opens and men push a Sopwith Camel airplane out onto airfield. Map of St Mihiel. American planes warm up on flight line in predawn, with flares burning at wingtips. Huge numbers of allied airplanes are marshaled on airfields throughout the theater of operations and begin taking off. Among them is a French Morane-Saulnier low wing monoplane. German fliers are seen loading small hand held bombs into the cockpit of their Albatross aircraft. Soldiers in combat on ground in "no man's land" during the battle of St. Mihiel. They take refuge in large shell and bomb craters and try to advance running between them.. Germans fliers dropping bombs, by hand, from airplane. Numerous Allied and German airplanes in aerial dogfights. American planes over clouds. American Observation balloon attacked in sky. Balloon in flames, and trailing black smoke as it falls to the ground. French flag flies at an airfield, where a nosed-over airplane sits, by a hangar, as airplanes fly overhead. Aircraft taxiing about in close quarters at airfield. Large formations of American airplanes flying overhead in a grand formation, following the Armistice, November 11, 1918 Then the film shifts dramatically from World War One to the post-WWII year of 1947. It illustrates the dramatic advances in warplanes since WWI by showing U.S. B-36 bombers and straight-wing F-84 Thunderjet fighters is formation.

Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051727
Vincent Auriol is elected as a new president of France with all political groups and ceremony held in Paris, France.

Vincent Auriol is elected as the new President in Paris, France. All political leaders arrive in Paris to join the new cabinet under Vincent Auriol, the newly elected President of the Republic. A statue of a man riding a horse in the background. The names of the Presidential candidates are in envelopes. Views of Auriol. A ceremony held when Auriol is informed of his majority. Paul Ramadier is named the Premier of the new coalition government.

Date: 1947, January 27
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045374
British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery reviews the French Army training during his visit in France.

Marshal reviews French Army training in France. French people greet and receives British Army Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery. President of the French Republic Co-Prince of Andorra, Jules Vincent Auriol shake hands with Marshal. Troops holding rifles march past. Marshal reviews parade and salutes. He reviews the French Army training academy. He watches as the troops cross monkey bars, climb a wall, use ropes, and deal with challenges on an obstacle course.

Date: 1947, September 8
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073034
Women sew clothes for U.S. Army soldiers at Quartermaster Salvage Shop in Reims, France.

French, Italian, Lithuanian women liberated from labor camps sew GI 's (members of the United States armed forces) buttons and patch pants at Quartermaster Salvage Shop in Reims,France. Workers shred the un-salvaged GI clothing. After World War II.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022354