Free French 2nd Armored Division troops fighting in Lucé, Eure-et-Loir department in northern France, during World War 2. French soldiers loading shell into a 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7. Smoke from the Howitzer as it is fired. A French soldier wearing a Free French Marine Infantry helmet uses a field phone. An artillery observer uses a periscope binocular. 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 Priest fires. Soldiers loading shells into M7. French soldiers confer over a map. A French officer uses a field phone to communicate, other soldier taking down notes on his notebook. French officer (wearing sunglasses and a Free French 2nd Armored Division badge) talks on the field phone. A French soldier wearing a Free French Marine Infantry helmet speaks while holding a field radio handset.
Views from ships in the Normandy invasion convoy of World War 2. American flag above a ship and barrage balloon aloft. The British naval ensign on another ship. U.S. Motor torpedo boat USS PT-541 signalling by lights. Blinker light signals by Allied ship. Allied naval warships bombarding the French coast. Troops of 2nd assault wave climb down rope nets from transport ships. Allied fighter planes strafing German flak towers, german airplanes, and railroad trains. Allied troops leaving their transport ships in landing craft. Landing Craft Tank (Rocket),aka LCT(R) firing barrages of rockets. Allied B-26 and B-24 bombers attacking ground targets. Allied troops being hampered by obstacles and some falling to German gunfire as they hit the beaches of Normandy. Survivors of sunk and damaged landing craft being helped ashore. British landing craft firing at beach houses. U.S. troops pinned under shore cliffs at Omaha Beach. Soldiers giving blood plasma to wounded. British troops leaving landing craft. Allied troops on beachhead and moving inland. U.S. troops wading ashore. Troops wading ashore from LCI(L)-537. An American M4 Sherman wading tank (with intake and exhaust funnels) and equipped with dozer blade, labeled: DT-7.
French soldiers of the 301st Regiment, 2nd Division, mend a tricolor pennant bearing the Cross of Lorraine in World War II. French soldier chatting while sewing the flag. French men and women welcome the arrival of Free French 2nd Armored Division in Foucarville, France. A French solider carries a boy on his shoulder while tickling him. French soldier drinks from his canteen. An old French man happy with soldiers. A French soldier pouring wine for a woman. Woman and French soldiers hold glasses filled with wine.
Gun camera film from a P-51 Mustang fighter plane of the US Army Air Forces attacking a German Messerschmitt Bf 110 aircraft during World War 2. The American fighter plane is piloted by 2nd Lieutenant A. Robertson of 362nd Squadron, 357th Fighter Group. A hit on the on the German aircraft produces a bright flash of explosion.
Exteriors of a U.S. 3rd Battalion, 442nd Infantry, 34th Division aid station in Italy, during World War 2. Third Battalion medics leave the aid station. (Soldiers of the 442nd Infantry Regiment were mostly Americans of Japanese ancestry.) Group of are seated on the ground in front of the aid station. Closeups of some of the medics.
Wounded U.S. soldiers being treated during Italian campaign of World War 2. Ambulance arrives at a field hospital of the U.S. 3rd Battalion, 442nd Infantry, 34th Division. (Soldiers of the U.S. 442nd Regiment were almost entirely Americans of Japanese ancestry.) Ambulance stops in front of a hospital tent. Injured soldier on litter is removed from the ambulance. An army nurse prepares dressing for a wounded soldier. He lights a cigarette. Surgery performed inside the hospital tent. Wounded men on litters removed from ambulance and carried into tent. (Note: Opening slate showing the name, "Morang,." refers to Lt. Frank Morang, 196th Signal Photo Co.)
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