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Allied Forces in amphibious assaults, at Normandy, France, on D-Day during World War II

British forces in amphibious assault boats,at Normandy on D-Day, during World War 2. They fire at houses on the beach. American forces encountering German-placed obstacles and fire from pillboxes at Omaha Beach during their D-Day landings. They seek shelter under the Chalk Cliffs. Medics treating American wounded. In the British sector. Special Army engineers leave a landing craft first, followed by medics and troops. Securing the beachhead, the British troops move inland. A second wave of U.S. troops landing at Utah Beach, where German resistance was lighter. Landing craft from the USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13) carrying troops to Utah Beach. U.S. troops wading a long way to a Normandy beach. U.S. LCI(L)-537, discharging troop reinforcements. A landing craft (Higgins Boat) from the USS Thurston (AP-77) landing troops at Omaha Beach. Sherman tank equipped with deep wading gear and a bulldozer blade comes ashore at Utah Beach. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 aircraft, in D-Day paint stripes, attacking ground targets.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058847
Allied aircraft strafe German trains and buildings, view of allied gliders, troops invading beachhead during D-Day.

Gun camera footage shows allied fighters strafing targets in French countryside during the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) in World War 2. Various vehicles, buildings and railway lines exploding as they are hit. German trucks being strafed by fighters. Aerial view of various railway lines, trains exploding due to strafing. Allied forces gliders on the ground. An Airspeed Horsa glider with “D-Day” invasion stripes. Two United States soldiers walk away from the Airspeed Horsa glider. British and United States soldiers unload supplies on the beach. More soldiers land on the beach in Normandy, walking down ramps from landing craft into water at beach. A tank and bulldozer drive up onto beach. Soldiers patrol the beach, with half-timbered Norman French houses in ruins on land. Famous shot of an Allied soldier collapsing on beach after being shot on the beach in Normandy during D-Day.

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078802
Operation Market Garden in Holland (1944) and Allied crossing of the Rhine, Germany (1945) in World War II.

U.S. paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division are seen silhoutted against sky as they board C-47 transport aircraft in Operation Market Garden mission to Grave and Nijmegen, Holland, in September, 1944, during World War 2. C-47 starts engines. C-47s take off towing gliders. Change of subject to Allied operations crossing the Rhine River into Germany in 1945. U.S. Army troops in a long boat powered by an outboard motor. U.S. troops board U.S. Navy amphibious assault boats on shore of the Rhine (Rhein) River. View from above of assault boats undergoing fire from German defenders during the crossing. U.S. troops moving quickly out of the assault boats on German soil. Scene shifts to airborne operations. View in cockpit of U.S. transport aircraft carrying U.S. paratroopers of the 17th Airborne Division, on joint British-American Operation Varsity, to drop paratroopers on the German side of the Rhine River. A C-46 transport aircraft, in flight, bearing Tail Code "H.". View from cargo compartment as 17th Airborne Division paratroopers exit very efficiently, by jumping from both doors of the C-46. Sky filled with parachutes. Scene shifts to ground operations. U.S. Army troops stand shoulder to shoulder on a section of pontoon bridge, as it is pushed across a river by Army engineers in two small power boats. U.S. tanks and vehicles crossing pontoon bridges. Supreme Allied Commander, Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower, stands with Lieutenant General William Hood Simpson, commander of the U.S. Ninth Army, as they observe Allied operations. American soldiers taking German prisoners of war. German POWs being escorted under guard and large numbers of them in an open field under U.S. guard.

Date: 1945
Duration: 6 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024451
P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes in flight above clouds and then diving. Germany, right after end of World War II.

U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft operating in skies over Germany right after the end of World War 2, in Europe. P-47D Thunderbolt fighter planes (with bubble canopies) of the 377th Fighter Squadron (red cowls, coded "E4"), 362nd Fighter Group in flight above clouds. They peel off, one at a time, and dive.

Date: 1945, May 10
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047602
A U.S. aircraft of VIII Fighter Command attacks a seaplane, ground targets and vessels underway at a sea in the European Theater.

German ground targets in the European Theater are attacked by a U.S. aircraft on 9th April, 1944, during World War 2. Three German FW-190 planes and one seaplane being attacked by a U.S. aircraft of VIII Fighter Command piloted by Lieutenant Colonel D.C. Schilling of 62nd Squadron. Tracers are fired at a seaplane, on ground targets and on ships underway in the ocean. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047627
U.S. General Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Churchill inspect equipment, supplies and review a parachute jump in England.

U.S. 101st Airborne Division in England during World War 2.British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. Army General Dwight D Eisenhower, and Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, with other officials and officers, visit RAF Welford airfield in Berkshire County, England (then home to the 435th Troop Carrier Group). They are hosted by Brigadier General Maxwell Davenport Taylor, Commander of the 101st Airborne Division, together with members of his staff, including: Brigadier General Don F Pratt and Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe. They tour various exhibits of engineers, artillery, anti aircraft and paratroop units. They inspect equipment, gliders, and supplies. From a reviewing stand, they observe a paratroop exercise involving formations of C-47 transport planes, from which large numbers of paratroopers jump, filling the skies with parachutes. Generals Eisenhower, Brigadier General Taylor and Prime Minister Churchill salute colors as they review troops. They walk among displays of troopers, equipment, and U.S. CG-4A gliders. Assisted by General Taylor, Prime Minister Churchill climbs aboard a British Horsa glider to examine it. He shakes hands and converses with Colonels of the 101st, including: Col.George S. Wear, commander, 327th Glider Infantry Regiment; Col. George V. H. Moseley, Jr., Commander, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment; Colonel Howard R.Johnson, commander, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment; and Col. Thomas L. Sherburne, 101st Airborne Division's Artillery Commander.

Date: 1944, March 23
Duration: 3 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076989