View of Omaha Beach,and Allied reinforcement and resupply operations following the D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Barrage balloons above the shoreline. Boats in the water, some sunken. Large supply ships and Landing Crafts tank (LCTs) moving Sherman tanks,armored vehicles, jeeps, trucks and equipment ashore. Wounded Allied soldiers being carried on litters to be ferried out to the larger ships. British Army soldiers holding their ears as they fire mortars. Scottish troops setting up outside Caen and exchanging mortar fire with German defenders. Scottish soldiers cleaning weapons. One with a pet cat. Scots soldiers crawling through grass and firing machine guns. Jeep with red cross carrying wounded on litters. Battle in city of Caen. Allied soldier carrying wounded comrade on his back. Medical dressing station set up in the city. MPs and medics tending to wounded. Army ambulance rushing wounded to field hospital behind the lines. Medical team performing surgery on wounded soldier. Narrator says they could not stop bleeding. View of dog tags on a white stake in the ground signifying burial spot for a dead soldier.
The Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. Improvised port facilities being erected in "Operation Mulberry." Ships carrying troops and supplies pull up to the Mulberry piers. Troops and vehicles moving on the piers toward the shore at Normandy. A severe storm tears up the mulberry port facilities. A man crawls a rope invertedly to get to a ship. War materiel moving on the Normandy beaches. A map of Normandy. View of Seaport at Cherbourg, France. Allied and German forces moving to battle over the Cherbourg port. Large formation of Allied aircraft. United States troops battling Germans in hedgerows, on the way to Cherbourg. A United States soldier uses a SCR-536 Walkie-talkie while in hedgerow. Soldier smoking a cigarette in hedgerow. French farmers collecting hay with pitchforks. United States troops being welcomed by French residents. Meeting heavy resistance at outskirts of Cherbourg, the U.S. employs batteries of field artillery. Some infantry engaged in street fighting. Nazi German General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben surrenders to the American forces in Cherbourg.
Allied capture of Cherbourg, France, on June 25th, 1944, in World War 2. German prisoners of war marching under guard, with hands on their heads following surrender. Aerial vies of the Cherbourg harbor, extensively sabotaged by the Germans. Allied engineers working to repair the port. Power shovels, welders, and divers seen at work. Troops moving up the peninsula from Cherbourg. Weapons being distributed to French members of the Maquis guerilla resistance, in Allied occupied areas. French irregular soldiers firing against German forces in mountains, and sabotaging German facilities. Numerous dead bodies of French civilian villagers, killed by a Battalion of the Nazi SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment "Der Führer" (an infantry regiment of 2. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich"), and destroyed buildings in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane where the massacre took place. Temporary stakes marking their graves.
Map showing Cherbourg, and Caen, further up the peninsula, in France during World War 2. German forces preparing to defend Caen. Nazi SS troops and armored divisions moving into positions.Scenes of Allied forces battling for Caen (much at dusk or nighttime).Sky filled with Allied warplanes. Bombs away views and bombs falling and smoke rising from targets in area of Caen. British infantry crouched beside a road. British Avro Lancaster bomber in flight. Bombs exploding on the ground. Smoking ruins of buildings.1st Canadian Army troops moving into the war torn city. Street-to-street and house-to-house fighting in Caen. Civilian residents of Caen emerge from shelters onto streets, after fighting ceases. A small boy picks up an apple from the street and eats it. A soldier of the Polish 1st Division is seen. British 7th Armoured Division (the Desert Rats) and infantry advancing out of Caen. British forces in heavy fighting south of Caen against German defenders.
Map showing path of Allied advance after D-day invasion in World War 2. German Marshal Rommel with staff. German artillery and armor firing. American heavy artillery, armor, and infantry advancing toward St. Lo in operation Cobra. Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair, and Major General J. Lawton Collins, walking near the battle front. U.S. Army Air forces B-26 bombers dropping bombs at the front lines.(General McNair was killed by friendly bombers on July 25th in these operations.) U.S. infantry entering Saint Lo. House to house fighting and German soldiers taken prisoner.U.S.Sherman tanks firing point blank at houses and buildings.Large number of German prisoners being marched under guard with their hands over their heads. A wounded Allied officer being helped into a vehicle. Women and children refugees walking and in horse drawn wagons.French woman sorts through rubble trying to salvage some belongings. African American tank crewmen of the 761st Tank Battalion, operating with the U.S. 3rd Army, seen relaxing against a stone wall; cleaning their tank guns; and driving their Sherman tanks at high speed along dirt roads.General George Patton, Commander of the 3rd Army, looking through binoculars. French civilians waving enthusiastically as American armor drives through their villages. American forces arriving in Rennes, France, greeted by huge crowds and church bells ringing.
German panzers and infantry preparing to defend against advancing American forces by cutting their supply routes from the coast of France,following the invasion of Normandy. Animated map shows Allied and German opposing objectives converging at mortain, France. American armor bogged down near Mortain. An American crew abandoning a Sherman tank that has been hit and is burning. American infantry taking cover at side of a road. A U.S. Army Captain leading soldiers forward. German artillery fire striking center of a road. An American armored vehicle burning in a field. U.S. infantrymen moving cautiously through fields. Wounded American soldiers being carried off the battlefield on stretchers. British Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter bombers attacking German positions with rockets from above. RAF Typhoon aircraft being rearmed and continuing to attack large concentrations of German armored units North of Mortain. American infantrymen firing numerous mortars from a field.American soldiers firing rifles, bazookas, and machine guns.US M7 Priest self-propelled gun firing. U.S. M-16 anti-aircraft halftrack firing quad .50 caliber machine guns. U.S. infantry entering war torn town of Mortain.
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