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Allied forces prepare for D-Day, also known as 'Operation Overlord' (WW2)

'Eve of Battle' depicts the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. Slave labor from Nazi Germany-invaded countries construct Atlantic Wall. German artillery and fortifications in the Atlantic Wall. Nazi German soldiers marching in groups. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler shake hands with Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin sit together during the Tehran Conference in December 1943. Exiled Allied leaders such as General Charles de Gaulle of France, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and Dr. Edvard Beneš of Czechoslovakia inspect Allied troops. Various Allied troops from Poland, Norway, England, United States, and Czechoslovakia prepare to launch an invasion in France. Eisenhower along with other officers plans the European invasion. Allied ships and aircraft on their way to Europe. Allied bombers drop bombs over Nazi German U-boats. Naval battle begins and explosions occur, smoky docks. In England war supplies unloaded. Supplies include weapons, military equipment, and food. A tank and locomotive trains being loaded into a ship bound for Europe. Allied aircraft take off at night. A man directs an aircraft taking off. Allied bombers bombard German targets resulting into fiery flare in Europe. British children playing jump rope as a supply train pass by in the background. Tanks and fighter planes transported by train. Supply boxes unloaded and stacked for transport to the battle front.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049407
United States Army Air Corps film "The Truth About Ploesti."

Formations of B-24 Liberator bombers are seen in flight, headed for Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943, during World War 2. Next, vertical columns of bombs are seen falling from the planes. Animated map of Europe shows Romania and Ploesti. It show paths of oil from the Ploesti oil fields to Germany. (Narrator states Ploesti provides 30% of Axis oil.) Map show path of 9th Air Force bombers from Libya to the Ploesti oil fields. Scenes shift to captured German films from 1944, showing the fires and destruction resulting from the constant B-24 raids. Huge black clouds rise from the area. Firefighters rush to combat flames. They direct streams of water on the conflagrations. (Commenter states: "Delayed action bombs prevented firefighters from rushing in, until too late.") Nighttime views of large fires and heavy smoke from 6 of Ploesti's 7 refineries ripped wide open. Film advances to August, 1944, showing Ploesti with the fires out, following Rumania's capitulation. Next, with some fires still burning, King Michael I of Romania, tours the site with military officers. They walk amidst the debris. Smoke rising near a rail marshaling yard. Against a background of dense smoke rising, a Slate is displayed showing the cost to the United States of the Ploesti raids, as 300 bombers and 3000 American airmen were lost.

Date: 1944, August 1
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056362
Close up of V-1 Argus pulse jet engine parts during World War 2.

Title card says “Geheime Kommandosache” (“secret commando operation” in English). “Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe Karlshagen” (“Test site of the Air Force Karlshagen” in English). “Flakzielgerät 76 Schnittautnahmen 14.10.1943” (“Anti-aircraft target device 76 cut recordings 10/14/1943” in English). Close up of V-1 glide bomb Argus pulse jet engine. Disassembly shows various components of the intake on the Argus engine, including the crucial spring controlled flap valve system, designed to close after each pulse of the engine.

Date: 1943, October 14
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675079130
Gun camera footage: German ME-109 aircraft explodes after attack by U.S. Lt Wynn, 334 Squadron, 4th Fighter Group

A film about U.S. 8th Fighter Command in World War 2. Gun camera film from P-47 aircraft flown by First Lt. V.H. Wynn 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group. It records his attacking 2 German ME-109 aircraft on 22 December 1943. The German pilot of the last Me-109 jettisons his canopy and bails out of his plane in the last frames.

Date: 1943, December 22
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040449
Highlights in career of U.S. Air Force General Hap Arnold. Final phase of air war in Europe, World War II.

Scenes of the August 2nd, 1943 Operation Tidal Wave low-level bombing raid on Ploiesti or Ploesti oil facilities, in Romania, by U.S. Air Force B-24s. B-17s dropping bombs. B-17s escorted by P-47 fighters. War plants in the U.S. building B-29 bombers. U.S. B-17s over Europe, escorted by P-38 Lightning fighters. Allied air superiority established over Europe.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042996
Montage of scenes from the air war between U.S. and German warplanes during World war 2

Montage of scenes from air war in Europe, covering period from about 1943 through 1945 during World War Two. U.S. P-47 and P-38 fighter aircraft being unloaded from a ship at a port in Europe during the Second World War. A line of P-47s on an airfield. German aircraft taking off and inflight, including: Me-109; He-111 bombers; Me-110 fighters; and Fw-190 fighters. U.S. P-51s firing at and destroying German aircraft. Multiple aerial dogfight scenes with gun camera footage showing dramatic mid air explosions of various enemy German aircraft. U.S. B-17s flying to Berlin and back again, with P-51 fighter escorts. P-38 aircraft flying in formation and returning from escort duty, seeking targets of opportunity, strafe German airfields, and fire on German aerodromes and parked aircraft, destroying many airplanes.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047531