Aerial view of ruined French towns and villages destroyed by the fighting as Allied forces advance from the beachheads of Normandy to take the port of Cherbourg. U.S. troops moving along the road to Cherbourg. French civilians give refreshments to U.S. troops. U.S. field artillery firing. German troops surrendering under a flag of truce, leaving a fortified building. One of the U.S. soldiers guarding them has a bloodied head and face and wears bandages. U.S. airplanes bomb a fortress at Cherbourg, as Lieutenant General Omar Bradley and Major General Lawton Collins watch. Cherbourg falls to the Allies.
Lieutenant General George S. Patton emerges from a tent, with Major General Lindsey M. Sylvester, Commander of the 7th Armored Division. They converse, as Patton gets into his jeep. General Sylvester salutes as General Patton drives away in his jeep which displays a three-star pennant. A heavy machine gun is mounted in the jeep.
A sign identifies field installation of the 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment. A group of U.S. Army medics, wearing red cross helmets, carry a wounded soldier of the U.S. 8th Infantry Division, on a stretcher. They are assisted by a captured German soldier, and followed by an armed U.S. soldier. They carry the wounded soldier into a concrete block building that serves as a field medical treatment center.
Allied reinforcements arriving during invasion of Normandy in World War II. Scenes a day or two after D-Day. Beachmaster waves white flag. Landing Craft Utility number 385 is behind him and other Logistic and utility ships seen on beach in distance. Two U.S. soldiers stand at waters edge. A landing craft Vehicle (LCV Number 594)in water, close to beach, behind them, packed with U.S.troops. A bulldozer and a DUKW seen in front of the LCV. Troops wade ashore from the LCV.
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.
Distant view of convoy at sea and 8th infantry regiment soldiers of assault team advance inland. Assault team soldiers cross the obstacles in their way. Regiment moves ahead. (World War II period).
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