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.
United States Navy vessels underway in Atlantic Ocean during World War II. United States Navy PT (patrol) boats underway in Atlantic Ocean. A 50 caliber machine gunner works on the gun aboard a vessel. Explosions occur around minesweepers. Massive explosions occur causing a pillar of smoke to rise up as a result of the bombing of French coast. A cruiser shelled in mid sea.
D-Day Allied landings at Omaha beach in Normandy, France during World War II. United States soldiers and sailors loaded in a Landing Ship Tank ( LST) as they move towards the Omaha beach in Normandy, France. Soldiers smoke cigarettes aboard the LST. Soldiers doze off with their heads lowered over their knees. Various landing crafts underway in the channel off the French coast.
A brief promotional scene of large columns of German Army soldiers, in class A uniforms, marching 9-abreast with shouldered rifles. A map of the English Channel with key cities shown along the French Coast. View from shore, of Allied invasion forces off the coast of Normandy, in World War 2. German soldier runs to an Atlantic Wall coastal defense gun, which then fires toward the invasion fleet. View of obstacles placed in surf at the beach. German coastal guns fire at Allied beachhead and ships offshore. Allied ship burning. German gunner seen inside the gun emplacement. Large explosion in water near shore. Destroyed invasion force equipment on the beach. abandoned Allied landing craft with numerous Army vehicles on board. Complete new sequence showing aftermath of the battle of Villers-Bocage, France. Destroyed Allied military equipment lines a road there, including many British Morris army trucks. One destroyed armored vehicle bears insignia of U.S. 2nd Armored Division, with names Betty, Joyce, and Sadie written on it. A German soldier walks past an American M3 halftrack with its right wheel jacked up and jerry cans stored on its side. A line of knocked out British armored trucks. An Allied soldier's shoe and flattened steel helmet. Sign at roadside reads: Villars, Bocage. Knocked out M3 Stuart light tank. Destroyed British Cromwell tanks on streets of the town of Villers-Bocage A British helmet on the ground in midst of debris near destroyed tank treads.
Map shows French coast and principal cities of interest, during the Allied invasion in World War 2. Truckloads of German troops, including one filled with German woman in uniform, drive rapidly along a dirt road to confront the Allied invasion at Normandy, France, during World War 2. An improvised sign in a tree reads, "Einhahnstrasse Z. Front," identifying the road to the front lines. A German soldier hands out newspapers to others passing on bicycles. A headline in the paper reads:"Eisenhower hat uns nicht überrascht" (Eisenhower didn't surprise us). German soldiers on bicycles ride past the camera. A Sign in large letters reads:"Feindeinsicht" (Enemy in sight) and adds precautionary comments. German army vehicles camouflaged with foliage drive past destroyed Allied armored vehicles. Closeup of a German soldier with foliage on his helmet, looking about as he rides along in an open vehicle. Formations of allied warplanes appear overhead. German troops on the road scurry to the sides of the road and take cover as precaution against Allied air attack. German antiaircraft batteries in action. One Allied aircraft is hit. The pilot bails out. His chute is visible. A U.S. B-17 bomber falls, with part of its left wing blown off. Smoke rising from wreckage of two Allied aircraft on the ground.
Map shows French coast, English Channel and principal cities of interest, during the Allied invasion in World War 2. German Messerschitt Bf 109 aircraft on a flight line are starting up. Pilots getting buckled into cockpits and ME 109s taxiing for takeoff. Switch to German Focke-Wulf FW 190 aircraft taking off in formation from forward airfield. Contrails seen from high flying aircraft. Formations of American aircraft overhead, are fired at by German antiaircraft gun from hidden position. German antiaircraft batteries in operation. Wreckage of downed Allied aircraft, showing two left engines of a B-17; an A-20 or B-26, in D-day white stripes, with tail number 30148; and a crash-landed B-17 of the USAAF 96th Bombardment Group, 339th Bomb Squadron, with left horizontal stabilizer and elevator shot to pieces. Three surviving crew members stand behind the aircraft as they are approached by two German soldiers who check them for weapons.