U.S. Army Air Force bombers over Saint-Lo, Normandy, France during World War II. U.S. Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress and B-26 Marauder bombers in flight. Three airplanes are shot down by enemy antiaircraft attack and they fall towards the earth.
U.S. Army Air Force fighters over Saint-Lo, Normandy, France, during World War II. U.S. 9th Air Force P-40 Warhawk fighter airplanes dive towards enemy positions. Smoke rises from hills in the background. Formations of B-24 Liberator bombers pass overhead.
U.S. infantrymen advance in Saint Lo, Normandy, France during World War II. Opening slate calls this subject "Big Push," referring to the Allied offensive to break out of the Normandy beachhead and push inland, during World War 2. (It's official name was "Operation Cobra.") An M4 sherman tank followed by a jeep, pass the camera. Another jeep passes in the opposite direction. Next, are seen a Sherman tank and two 3-inch Gun Motor Carriages,M10, loaded with sandbags and displaying aerial recognition panels on their tops. U.S. infantrymen move cautiously in brush at side of the dirt road, as more armor passes. A soldier positions his aerial recognition panel in place on his jeep. (These were fluorescent panels to prevent friendly fire from Allied aircraft.)
U.S. soldiers of 1st Infantry Division and U.S. 5th Engineers Specialist Brigade prepare in England for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Soldiers load demolition charges into an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel). They perform calisthenics aboard a ship. A soldier loads rockets into a multiple rocket launcher. The soldiers arrange an ammunition belt in a multiple barrel air-cooled machine gun.
U.S. soldiers of 1st Infantry Division and U.S. 5th Engineers Specialist Brigade prepare in England for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Personnel place a waterproof cover over an equipment in a landing craft. The equipment is placed with other equipment lying in the landing craft.
Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight Eisenhower talks to paratroopers of U.S. 101st Airborne Division in England, a day before the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. General Eisenhower inspects and talks to the paratroopers. Paratroopers with equipment on shoulders walk past tents. General Eisenhower speaks to men near airplanes.