Elements of the German 21st Panzer Division in action against Allies in Normandy, during World War 2. German Panzer III tanks moving along dirt road. Marder I anti-tank gun moving up. A German officer with binoculars, standing on Panzer V Panther tank, in established position, with shielding and fabric covering and foliage camouflage. The tank firing its 75L70 mm gun. Tank crewman throwing spent shell out rear hatch of the tank. A burning Kangaroo armored personnel carrier with Black Bull insignia and number 54, of the British 11th Armoured Division, 8th Rifle Brigade. German machine gunner firing. A battery of German nebelwerfer rocket launchers firing. Burning vehicles. Machine gun firing from atop a German tank, tracers visible. Sdkfz 251/1 Stuka Zu Fuss, Rocket launcher firing. Explosions and fire.
General Barton of the 1st Engineers 2nd Brigadier, and General J. Lawton Collins 7th Corps with other General talking on beach. General Collins leaves in a vehicle. The other officers leave in another vehicle. Sign board of 'Red Beach Hq.' can be seen.
German tanks advance past abandoned equipment. German troops scan skies. Enemy planes attacked by flak and fires on shore raise huge clouds of smoke. Antiaircraft guns in action. Explosion at far distance. German forces in combat. (World War II period).
German infantry battle against Allied forces in Normandy region in World War 2. German soldiers fire machine guns. German troops take high ground above a wide valley with forest in distance. Nazi German infantry forces supported by tanks and artillery battle for wooded area. Germab soldiers run over open ground toward Allied targets. In an unusual move, German soldiers employ a 20 mm Flakvierling 38 antiaircraft gun against Allied armor emerging from the woods. Explosions and smoke during battle. German tanks advance.
View from a U.S. Landing Craft Infantry (LcI), of four U.S. Coast Guard personnel in a sinking Higgins boat from the Attack Transport, USS Bayfield (APA-33), off Omaha Beach on D-day, in World War 2. Another Higgins boat, from the Bayfield is nearby. The four Coastguardsmen pose standing in their stricken boat. Then it goes under and they must swim. The LCI crew throw life rings to them and pull them aboard.
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.