LCI(L)s approaching the Omaha Beach shore during the D-day invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Among those see is LCI(L)541. Officer calling with a megaphone from ship's deck. The LCIs advance toward the beach. Explosion seen ahead. U.S. troops wade from LCIs under continuous German machine gun fire. Larger Landing Ships Tank, including USS LST-282, waiting out of range of enemy fire. U.S. troops and motorized equipment on shore. Burning U.S. truck. Fallen U.S. soldiers in the sand.M4A1 Sherman tank with bulldozer blade and "DT-7" painted on its side, moving along Utah Beach. LCI(L)88 pulls up to a transport ship to load more troops for transport to the shore. Vehicles being transferred from an LST to a LCT. Larger vehicles, such as tanks, being transferred to "Rhino Ferries" (powered barges) to be taken ashore.Troop reinforcements being landed at the beachhead. Major General Charles H.Corlett, " Cowboy Pete," Commander of XIX Corps,US 1st Army, seen speaking on the radio, after landing on D-Day+4 (June 10th) at Omaha Beach, near Colleville-su-Mer. Army trucks drive ashore in surf. A buldozer moves in the surf.
Scenes on and around Omaha Beach after it had been secured, following the Allied D-Day amphibious invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Several U.S. soldiers move along the beach in a DUKW amphibious vehicle. A bulldozer seen in the background. About 25 German prisoners of war are seen awaiting evacuation, behind barbed wire on the beach,guarded by a U.S.military policeman. As a shell whines overhead they all instinctively drop to the ground and the shell explodes somewhere out of sight. An 83 ft. U.S. Coast Guard rescue cutter looks for Allied survivors in the water. The British Hospital ship "Prague" and others are seen at anchor, ready to receive patients. Wounded soldiers being carried on stretchers to a landing craft on the beach. A wounded man being transferred from a damaged LCI to another one. Wounded being hoisted in groups of 4 each, from the crippled and sinking LCI(L)85. The are lowered to deck of the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). Navy Rear Admiral, John L. Hall, Jr., observing the transfer of wounded. Sweeping views of Omaha Beach after the beachhead was secured. Numerous support vessels are seen close offshore. Trucks move along roads; war materiel is stockpiled in open areas; barrage balloons fly aloft; and soldiers move everywhere. Closeup of the LCI(L) 92 ,on the beach,showing the holes blown in her. The LCI(L)553, beached sideways in the sand. Seen beached and damaged, is LCI(L)87, flagship of Coast Guard Captain Miles E. Imlay, deputy commander of the Coast Guard's Omaha Assault Group O-1. Mechanics working to repair the screw from a boat.
The Normandy Landings on D-Day in France during World War II. A DUKW (amphibious truck) underway with Allied soldiers aboard it. Allied troops land on Normandy coast. Army trucks moving in a line from a U.S. Navy LST (Landing Ship, Tank) on the beach. An army truck comes down the open ramp of the LST. Soldiers and officers look at trucks. A DUKW moves to the beachhead from water. The LST with its open ramp. Allied troops aboard the LST. Several ships at sea in the background.
The Normandy Landings on D-Day in France during World War II. A U.S. Navy LST (Landing Ship, Tank) with Allied troops at Normandy coast during the invasion of Normandy. Army trucks coming down the ramp of the LST and moving to the beach. Allied soldiers and officers standing beside the LST. Several ships along the coast in the background. An M4 Sherman tank coming down the ramp of the LST. Several M4 Sherman tanks moving on the beach from the LST.
The Normandy Landings on D-Day in France during World War II. A few U.S. Coast Guard personnel working on the propeller of an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) at a beachhead. A damaged propeller blade of the LCI on the ground. A few coast guards at the back of the LCI. USCG Captain Miles H. Imlay and Lieutenant Yonner speaking. Several tank traps on the beach. A small hut in the background.
The Normandy Landings on D-Day in France during World War II. A hole on a U.S. Navy LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) on the Normandy beachhead. Two other holes on the LCI. U.S. Coast Guard men beside the LCI. 'US 92' written on the back of the LCI. The men inspecting the LCI. Wrecked parts in view.