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Soldiers unload tanks from a Landing Craft Tank during a rehearsal for the Invasion of Normandy. in World War II

United States soldiers during a rehearsal for the Invasion of Normandy. in World War 2. A lookout wearing closed-sided non-glare glasses as he scans the sky for aircraft. He turns a dial located on the nose bridge of the glasses to adjust the vision. Soldiers at the deck gun of a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) as it approaches the shore in the faint morning light. Side ramps are dropped on the LCI and soldiers move down ramps and onto beach area. Soldiers get off and run across the beach. Tanks unloaded from a Landing Craft Tank (LCT) and taken across the beach. Column of troops going down beach, heads toward Landing Crafts on beach. They make a left turn moving inward. Hill in the background. Landing Crafts on the beach.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020539
War correspondents gather in South England preparing to head to France, immediately before D-Day invasion in World War II.

War correspondents gathered in England, awaiting D-Day and preparing to enter France after the upcoming D-Day invasion in World War 2. War correspondents and soldiers at a camp on the South Coast of England. Jeeps, tents and men near baggage. Various correspondents meet up with each other. A correspondent walks amidst rows of tents with an officer. An officer gives a correspondent a shovel to defend himself. Correspondent Larry LeSueur smokes a cigarette. Various correspondents including Jack Thompson of the Chicago Tribune, Scripps-Howard Newspapers' Ernie Pyle, Associated Press' Larry O'Riley and Wharton Becker. They bid farewell to each other. A correspondent wearing a leather jacket with "War Correpondent" labeled epaulets on the shoulders. Clark Lee of INS and Chicago Daily News' William Stoneman next to a trailer attached to a military jeep. The war correspondents climb into a military truck. The truck passes through small British towns. People shop for vegetables in a crowded market place or a British town. Destroyed buildings in the town of Plymouth seen as the correspondents exit the rear of the Army vehicles.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020895
War correspondents board Landing Crafts along with 101st Airborne Troops in South England (WW2)

War correspondents board crafts on the South England coast shortly before D-Day Invasion in World War II. The correspondents film United States 101st Airborne Division troops marching towards Landing Crafts at the docks. They carry grenades and bazookas. Soldiers board Landing Crafts. The heavy crafts have to be pushed off the docks by military trucks. The troops are taken to larger crafts and ships further into the water. Soldiers pose for the camera. A fleet of ships and Landing Crafts Infantry (LCI) in the water. The correspondents with Commander of the invasion group Lt. Patton and the Captain of the ship, LCI number 5. A correspondent shows his camera to an officer. War correspondent Wes Hanes trims his beard.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020897
101st Airborne Division troops amuse themselves aboard Landing Crafts on the South England coast before D-Day Invasion, World War 2

War Correpondents covering D-Day Invasion preparations in World War II. The correspondents along with U.S. 101st Airborne Division troops aboard Landing Crafts on the South England coast. Units of the Division on board a craft. A soldier stands up and addresses the troops, imitating Hitler. Soldiers seated and standing aboard the craft.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020898
U.S. 101st Airborne Division sailors put a life preserver on a puppy dog -- the ship's mascot -- in South England, World War 2

War Correpondents cover World War II. U.S. 101st Airborne Division troops aboard Landing Crafts on the South England coast just before D-Day Invasion. Sailors with a puppy on board. The pup is the ship mascot. Sailors with small life preserver for the pup. They hold up the pup.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020899
Allied ships off Bournemouth England, and British troops destroy German buzz bombs in World War II.

Allied ships near Bournemouth, England, during World War 2. Soldiers on Landing Ships at sea. Cliffs off the coast in the water. Soldiers seated near a U.S. flag on a ship. Battleships advance during the day and at dusk. Footage then changes to monochrome and different content: German 'buzz bombs' (V-1) fired by the Germans come flying from the sky. Artillery and machine gun fire by the British troops. British Mosquito fighters destroy buzz bombs in mid air. A buzz bomb get through and explosion is seen as it impacts. Views of rubble and wounded civilian on stretcher in England, in aftermath of a German buzz bomb attack.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020902