A film 'Camouflage in Combat' underlines the importance of tactical exploitation and counteraction of shadows and use of nets, underbrush and other camouflage during World War II. The film shows U.S. soldiers going into a theater in the United States and watching a movie 'Camouflage'. The movie shows a soldier in a forest. He is shot down. A soldier approaches him. He looks skywards. He applies mud on his face to camouflage himself. Soldiers paint each other's faces with GI paint. On 5th June 1944, fully camouflaged Airborne and pathfinder U.S. paratroopers preparing for D-Day invasion jump over Normandy, France. Soldiers with camouflaged helmets. A soldier camouflages his helmet with grass and twigs. A soldier on an island with his helmet camouflaged with grass and twigs found in the area which gives him a perfect blend. U.S. soldiers with camouflaged helmets in France. A camouflaged tank rolls. An officer inspects soldiers standing in a line. Their helmets are camouflaged. A U.S. soldier hiding in shadows in Casino, Italy fires his gun. His ring sparkles. A soldier in a prone position fires. A New Zealand soldier fires while in shadows.
View from a 4-engine airplane in flight over altocumulus clouds. Setting sun creates pink colors. Scene changes abruptly to views, inland from Omaha Beach, at Colleville-sur-Mer, France, of the temporary military battlefield cemetery established by the U.S. First Army, on June 8, 1944, right after the Allied invasion of Normandy, in World War 2. Simple wooden crosses mark the graves of the fallen Americans, each identified by one of their dog tags fastened to the marker.
On or soon after D-Day invasion of Normandy France, a United States LCM ship approaches and hits the coast in Normandy, France as ramp splashes in water. B-26 bombers fly over head. Troops stand in a ship. LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel) or Higgins boat underway in water. It is seen turning around and returning from shore to ship as three men bail out with buckets. A dead man is seen floating in the water. United States Coast Guard rescue boat USCG-59 approaching a ship. Two medical staff work on an injured soldier partially covered in a blanket. (World War II period).
Allied military vehicles being unloaded at Omaha beach in Normandy, France during World War II. United States Army jeeps being unloaded from a Landing Craft Tank at Fox Green beachhead in Normandy, France. An American soldier on the beach as jeeps and other military vehicles are unloaded. A jeep get stranded in high waters and the soldier wades through surf towards the jeep. German prisoners on the beach. One of the injured German prisoners being carried away on a litter. Dead American soldiers on the beach. Wounded prisoners seated on the beach.
Allied landings at Omaha beach in Normandy, France during D-Day of World War II. United States soldiers loaded in a Landing Craft Tank as they move shore wards. Smoke rises from the Omaha beach in the background. Soldiers wade through water and land on Fox Green beach head in Normandy, France.
D-Day Allied landings at Omaha beach in Normandy, France during World War II. United States soldiers loaded in Landing Crafts as they move shore wards. Smoke rises from the Omaha beach in the background. Various heavy equipment barges with cranes underway in the Channel off the coast of Normandy, France.