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Allied Infantrymen and military vehicles move inland from Normandy to Carentan, France, and build bridge at Carentan

10 days after D-Day. Allied Forces progressing with invasion of Europe through Normandy during World War II. Infantry troops march and military vehicles move inwards to Carentan, about 3 miles in land from Normandy and Omaha Beach. A native woman talks to soldiers in the town of Carentan. A wounded soldier laying on a U.S. Army jeep in the town square in front of the Carentan Church. Soldiers use girders and continue construction of a bridge at Carentan. (Note: This appears to be "Tucker Bridge" at Carentan. The bridge was so-named after Major John Tucker, commanding the 300th Combat Engineers, was hit by enemy fire and killed during the initial construction of the bridge. The bridge provided important access to Cherbourg, St. Lo, and Caen. It was replaced in 1996 by a stone and concrete structure but it remains the Major John Tucker Bridge.) Two soldiers stand on the bridge and talk to each other.

Date: 1944, June 16
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037060
Infantry and military vehicles move in a town and clear debris of damaged houses near Omaha Beach, France during World War II.

10 days after D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. U.S. Soldiers and military vehicles move on the streets of a town. Houses damaged by bombs and battle. A military plow clears scattered building material and debris while civilians watch. Camouflaged vehicles move on the countryside roads.

Date: 1944, June 16
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037061
American planes strafe German aircraft in France

German planes are strafed by American aircrafts in France during World War II. German aircrafts explode in mid air emitting fire and smoke. A grounded German aircraft is strafed by American aircraft as smoke and fire emerges from it. Near coastal France 3 days after D-Day Invasion.

Date: 1944, June 9
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038168
United States soldiers climb down from a ship into landing craft in Normandy, France

A group of American soldiers clambers down into landing craft from troop ship near Normandy, France during World War II, in the days immediately following the D-Day invasion of France by the Allies. Ammunition being lowered by a cargo net into a waiting LCVP (Landing Craft vehicle Personnel) Soldiers climb down a net alongside the ship. Coast Guardsmen kneel during the church service at the weather deck of the ship. Officers stand by the life line and soldiers march across the deck. LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) loaded with soldiers moves toward the beach shore.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038221
President Roosevelt speaks during the dedication of Techwood Homes, at Georgia Tech, in 1935

President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks at the dedication of Techwood Homes (Techwood was a slum clearance project to build twenty-three brick and concrete buildings to house 604 families and 308 Georgia Tech students. It also included forty-two concrete buildings with 677 apartments at Atlanta University) at Georgia Tech University. The President is seen delivering his dedication speech, entitled, “The Meaning of Progress," at Grant Field on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, Georgia, before an audience of 50,000 people. He remembers the day, eleven years ago, in 1924, when he first came to Warm Springs, Georgia. He speaks about those days of so-called prosperity in America, when speculators profited and there was a "fool’s paradise” before "the crash", and the citizens were left "holding the bag." He reflects on the disaster and gloom from 1929 to March 3,1933, and reminds the audience of his administration’s subsequent actions to re-open closed banks and establish insurance for bank depositors. He speaks of the efforts of Government to find gainful employment for people out of work.

Date: 1935, November 29
Duration: 4 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049336
Damage and burning ruins in a village and a signalman speaks on a telephone in Isigny, France during World War II.

Explosions in a French village in Isigny, France during World War II, three days after the D-Day invasion of France. Smoke rises due to explosion. The civilians pick up their personal gear. Damage and burning ruins in the village. Three U.S. soldiers look at the burning building. A U.S. Army signalman speaks on a telephone. A soldier stands beside him holding a gun. Three U.S. soldiers run a spool of communications wire across the ground towards smoking buildings. A U.S. jeep carrying wounded and flying a red cross flag drives through ruined village. French civilians gathered with soldiers. One French man speaks to a U.S. soldiers.

Date: 1944, June 9
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069375