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.
German newsreel with Portuguese narration and periodic English overlay translation. Beginning of the battle for Europe, in World War 2. German Panzer IV tanks moving across a field in Normandy and firing against invading Allied Forces. German infantry following, some carrying Panzerschreck (bazooka) antitank weapons. Views of fires burning and knocked out tanks and armored vehicles. A German soldier guards two American tank crew members who are carrying a wounded, fellow U.S. Army soldier. German armor ascending a hill overlooking battlefield. Heavy fighting in coastal towns and the Bayeux area. German troops firing heavy machine guns. German soldier throwing a hand grenade. More destroyed armor. German soldier ordering battery of rocket launchers to fire. Explosions, fire and destruction.
View from road overlooking French village of Arromanches-les-Bains, where the Allies established a logistics port during the Normandy invasion of World War 2. Barrage balloon is aloft over the water. Allied ships are visible in the distance. Camera turns in opposite direction, looking out over village rooftops. The barrage balloon is seen more clearly, and some ships are close to shore, where much war materiel is gathered on the beach. A group of U.S. soldiers walks down a sandy road toward the water. A group of French civilians watch the activies, from the hillside. A Landing Ship Tank (LST) is close to shore. Cranes and supplies and equipment line the beach. A variety of ships are in the water behind the LST.
During Liberation of Paris. View of barbed wire enclosed area in Fort de Romainville (Nazi prison and transit camp) with bodies of civilians murdered by the Germans lying on ground (seen from a distance). View of main gate of Fort De Romainville with its inscription at the entrance. Elsewhere in Paris, a painter paints the French flag while children watch. Civilians on a street drinking wine. People bicycling on the street. A woman falls and people come to assist her. FFI (French Forces of the Interior) interrogating civilians on bicycles. (World War II period).
Scenes from the time of the Liberation of Paris. French civilians listen to French Liberation news on radio. People read FFI (French Forces of the Interior) posters on a wall. A communist flag flutters on a window. A board reads 'Rue Des Batignolles'.
Scenes from the Liberation of Paris. A partisan blows a bugle from a window. Two partisans discuss important issues at a desk. People walk about and descend the stairs of the Partisan Headquarter. A partisan writes a pass for his mother. A message on a typewriter. A woman partisan leader stands in a street.
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