U.S. 8th Air Force air attacks against France during World War II. Aerial view of U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator aircraft in formation flight. A gunner mans a gun. On June 5, 1944 a B-24 airccraft releases bombs over Calais. The bombs fall in the English Channel. B-24 aircraft drop bombs to strafe enemy beach defenses on the coast of Calais. Billows of smoke rises after the bombs detonate. A convoy of Allied ships underway in the English Channel.
U.S. 9th Air Force air attacks against France during World War II. Aerial views of the 9th Air Force aircraft in flight on June 7, 1944. A convoy of Allied ships underway in the English Channel. Landing crafts circle around the ships. Aircraft attacks German gun emplacements and smoke rises as bombs hit the targets. Saint Lo being bombarded. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauders bombard marshaling yards. Billows of smoke rises due to bombing. Bombs drop and impact results in smoke and fire.
A film about the role of U.S. Navy Seabees in construction of artificial harbors in the English Channel during the Allied invasion of Normandy, France in World War II. A Landing Ship Tank docked at an artificial harbor. The nose door of the LST opens. A ramp being lowered and equipment unload from the LST. On June 17, 1944 ships anchored at the harbor. A ship being sunk at Omaha beach. A Centurion ship being sunk to construct an artificial harbor. A U.S. Navy camp. Tent area at the camp.
A film about the role of U.S. Navy Seabees in construction of artificial harbors during the Allied invasion of Normandy, France in World War II. Commander Jorden of 111th Battalion in Normandy. U.S. Navy camp area as sailors come out of tents. Wrecked crafts at the shore after a storm hit the area on June 18, 1944. Seabees work on repair barges. Another artificial harbor at Arromanches in Normandy.
A group of passengers waiting to go on board the American ocean liner SS Washington, standing at the port of Le Verdon Sur Mer, Bordeaux France. Passengers leaving France shortly before its fall to Nazi Germany are shown inspected for passport and searched before boarding. A car being hoisted onto the ship. View of the clock tower and loading areas at the port of Le Verdon Sur Mer (subsequently destroyed by Nazi Germany later in the war, in November 1944). Captain Manning standing on the bridge. View of ship SS Washington pulling away from dock. June 1940.
August 1944: Allied troops in Caen, France. Aerial view of the Allied 21st Army Group Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery's armor advancing in the Normandy countryside. Tanks and artillery advance in fields. A tank on fire. Field Marshal Montgomery shakes hands with three little French girls and accepts flowers from them. He talks to the local residents. Refugees in a church. Children, women, men and elderly people are given food. They take rest. Refugees transferred in trucks. A soldier lights a smoke. French underground soldiers in the street. Women collaborationists who aided the Germans are rounded up and their heads shaved. The bald men and women in a truck. Russian troops near a railway track. The troops march back towards Caen. (World War II period).
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