World War II Documentary entitled "D-Day Convoy." Leaders and military Generals of the Allied nations at the Tehran Conference. U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill, Soviet General Stalin, General George Marshall of U.S. Army, General Eisenhower. Map showing the targets of raid in France under German occupation. Immense military ammunition, artillery, tanks, weapons and infantry troops amassed in England and readied for military raids. American infantry troops being trained to raid the Peninsula of Normandy. Troops advance between bomb blasts and gun fire during training. Allied air force bombers bombing their targets in France. Formation of Martin B-26 bomber aircraft flying overhead. Point of view shot from inside aircraft, seen through rain spotted plexiglass gun canopy, flying very low over a French village, on the way to bombing target. Aerial view of U.S. Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bomber dropping bombs over enemy target in Europe. View of bombs falling away from aircraft toward targets during a day time bombing raid. Explosions and smoke on the ground as targets are hit. Aerial fights between German and Allied air forces. Gun camera footage scenes as seen from Allied aircraft as they shoot at German airplanes. Several scenes of German aircraft exploding in flight. Airplane blasts in sky. U.S. army troops with ammunition moving toward camps in southern England. At the marshaling area soldiers receiving and trying on gas masks. They also receive inflatable life belts, food rations, cigarettes, candy including Hershey's chocolate, and French money as invasion currency. Briefing of the troops by the commanders.
Rations load for soldiers and antiaircraft guns prepared in England, prior to the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France during World War II. A military truck backs into a ration dump. Truck driver and other men load boxes of field ration in the trucks. A U.S. Army Sargent takes record of the material loaded in trucks. A unit of antiaircraft guns under camouflaged cover and a soldier walks near them. Trucks loaded with ration packets stand near road.
United States soldiers at a base camp in England, prior to the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France during World War II. Soldiers line outside a shower unit. They take off their clothes for shower at an enclosed area. A soldier dries himself with a towel after the shower.
United States soldiers at a base camp in England, prior to D-Day invasion in Normandy, France during World War II. Immense smoke rises off a bombed oil supply depot. British soldiers use chemical foam apparatus to fight fire at the oil depot. Flames come out of a building on fire.
Flames and smoke rises off a bombed oil supply depot near base of British Army, during World War II. A building nearby catches fire and British soldiers and firemen use chemical foam apparatus to fight fire at the building. Firemen spray chemical foam to extinguish fire from a crater caused by bombing.
Flames and smoke rises off a bombed oil supply depot near base of British Army, during World War II. A building nearby catches fire and British soldiers and firemen use chemical foam apparatus to fight fire of the building. Bulldozers smother fire and build dike to hold back flaming oil. One bulldozer operated by a British officer and another by a United States Seebee officer.