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Allied preparation and landing in Normandy on D-Day (WW2)

A film titled 'D-Day' shows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his aides planning the Normandy invasion by looking at a map of Europe. Animated map showing Northern Europe. Slave labor building "West Wall" defense system, according to narrator, but scenes appear to show coastal gun emplacements and defenses more consistent with the Atlantic Wall. Hitler and Nazi German officials. Construction sites as defenses are built by slave labor workers under German guard. German coastal defense in Western Europe showing Howitzers, fortifications, and Nazi German guards. Allied tanks, guns, locomotives and other military equipment is massed on beaches in the United Kingdom before D-Day. Fighter planes in airfield. Men unload supplies and war materiel from the United States. Allied locomotives, brake cars, tank cars, and an armada of Naval ships and landing crafts for D-Day. Assault boats and invasion barges are launched from ships in England. A man smokes a pipe. Barrage balloons flying over ships. Troops, transport, artillery, and materiel are loaded into ships bound for Normandy. A fleet of ships move across the English Channel. United States paratroopers land in Normandy. Firing and bombardment between the Allied forces and Nazi Germany. Bomb explodes off the coast of Normandy. Soldiers in landing craft on the way to Normandy. First landings in Normandy on D-Day during World War II. Soldiers rush to the beachhead, climb cliffs, and put out fires. A soldier rolls in the ground. Soldiers disembark from landing crafts and ships. Barrage balloons over the Normandy beachhead.

Location: European theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 9 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038157
Allied soldiers rescued from invasion boats sunk on D-Day are brought to England during World War II

The HMS Nightingale, a British Mining Tender, flying the Royal Naval Ensign, approaches a pier in Plymouth England. Several Royal Navy officers and sailors are aboard along with a number of Allied soldiers who were rescued after their ships were sunk during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Most of the rescued soldiers appear relatively unhurt. However, some are ambulatory wounded and others, more seriously injured, are carried off the boat on stretchers, by British sailors. All proceed up a gangway to a processing center. (Note:The soldier seen at 2 minute mark, fiddling with his gloves, is Private 1st class Paul Knor of E company, U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion, whose boat was sunk while headed for Pointe Du Hoc. He rejoined his Battalion, soon afterwards.)

Location: Plymouth England United Kingdom
Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038187
British sailors tell stories of their rescue to Women's Army Corps Captain in England (WW2)

Two British seamen recount their D-Day Normandy invasion rescue to a Women's Army Corps (WAC) Captain in Plymouth, England in World War II. Seaman on the left tells how after a British carrier hit a mine and the American soldiers had to swim to the shore. Seaman on the right tells that the carrier, on which he was there, was hit at the beach broadside and the men had to swim through rough seas. Most of the men were picked up by a United States landing ship and returned to England.

Location: Plymouth England United Kingdom
Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 5 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038188
U.S. forces loading on ships in England for the invasion of Normandy in World War II

A man with a pair of binoculars observes something in background while on board a United States ship in Portland Head, England. A half track vehicle being loaded on a landing barge. Soldiers and sailors on deck of a landing barge. Three American soldiers clean weapons aboard a landing craft at the pier. Truck is raised to the deck by elevator. M4 High speed tractor with soldiers atop pulls a 90mm Anti-aircraft gun on the dock and boards the landing ship, tank. Sailors and others are seen seated at the bow of the vessel.

Location: Portland Head England United Kingdom
Date: 1944, June 2
Duration: 4 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038189
American Landing Ship Tanks arrive Leyte Island in Philippines during World War 2

Smoke rises from the Leyte Island as American ship approaches the island in Philippines during World War II. Landing Ship Tanks (LST) loaded with men and equipment approach the island. LSTs arrive at the beach and soldiers wade through surf towards the beach. They move off the beach into the jungle.

Location: Leyte Philippines
Date: 1944, October
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038236
American soldiers detect mine at Leyte Island in Philippines during World War 2

An American soldier works with a mine detector at Leyte Island in Philippines during World War II. Soldiers push a jeep out of the surf. A soldier climbs up a palm tree and places an American flag on top of it.

Location: Leyte Philippines
Date: 1944, October
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038237
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