American patrol craft and many small boats in rough waters during the Invasion of Normandy. LCI-85, no weight on, listing to starboard. An American Attack Transport (APA) with a Landing Craft Utility (LCU) along its starboard quarter. LCI-492 moving at about 10 knots. Starboard beam view of a transport ship with smaller craft alongside. Troops aboard transport with packs on, ready for disembarkation. Soldiers administer first aid to a wounded man covered with a blanket on deck of transport. Transport at anchor, small gun boat speeds by in foreground. A Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) alongside ship. Soldiers on deck of camera ship look down over landing craft. Soldier on stern of a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI). Soldier on deck of LCI, letting go of lines, LCVP alongside. Soldiers on deck of the LCI, tending to a wounded soldier, LCVP alongside. A wounded soldier lying on deck, covered over with a blanket. Soldiers on LCI preparing to lift another wounded soldier from landing craft. A wounded soldier in landing craft, another lying on a stretcher in hold of landing craft. Wounded personnel on deck of camera ship. Wounded soldier on a stretcher, being lowered to main deck, from an upper deck. Blood and parts of the human body scattered around on deck. Small camera case covered with blood and fleshy parts of the human body. LCU loaded with troops heading for beach area. Other ships are scattered in background. LCU-199 loaded down with troops, heading for the beach. (World War II period).
Attack Transports (APA) at anchor during the Invasion of Normandy. A barrage balloon over second APA in background.Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) laying to, barrage balloons flying above other LCIs in background. LCIs underway during evasive tactics; barrage balloon over LCI. Hold of landing craft filled with personnel, one soldier's head is bandaged. Officer and enlisted man standing near windlass. Invasion ships near beach; barrage balloons above ships. Beach area with smoke drifting off beach. Landing Ships Tank (LSTs) and other ships of invasion force near beach; barrage balloons seen above ships. A small patrol craft and a battleship of the Nevada class. Ships off the coast. (World War II period).
Rennes in Brittany falls to Allied troops. Civilians in the streets. Military vehicles pass by. Forces of U.S. General George S Patton liberate the city from Germans. U.S. soldiers in trucks and jeeps as the crowd welcomes them. French policemen among the crowd. U.S. paratroopers freed by the Germans are welcomed back. The troops are greeted and kissed by French women. (World War II period).
Liberation of Marseilles during World War 2. French Colonial Troops march through the streets. Civilians gathered to welcome the troops. Allied flags on buildings. Civilians cheer and greet the soldiers with the V for victory sign. Soldiers in military jeeps greeted by people. Liberated Russian workers who were forced into slave labor by the Germans. A parade in honor of the French Underground. Soldiers and tanks. Commander of the French Forces, General Jean De Lattre de Tassigny presents Military Medals to the men and women of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI).
Allied troops on the French coast shortly after the Allied Invasion of Europe in World War 2. Abandoned fortifications built by slave labor. A soldier looks at metal fences. Officers and soldiers walk through the fort. German weaponry destroyed by retreating German forces. A soldier walks on rubble in Granville. Observation post of the U.S. Navy. A lighthouse that separates Normandy from Brittany. A U.S. soldier on the lighthouse looks out to the sea.
Allied assault force tied up, prior to the invasion of Normandy. Soldier mans 20mm on craft. Landing Ships Tank (LST) and Landing Crafts Utility (LCU) underway. Barrage balloons flying overhead. A sunken liberty ship. 20mm gun mount in the foreground. Officer of the Deck (OOD) walks up with a pair of binoculars and looks out over assault force. Four wounded soldiers on stretchers being hoisted by crane; enlisted men look on. The wounded being received on another ship as sailors look on. The soldiers being lowered on to deck. Navy Lt. in charge of receiving injured men looks on. (World War II period).
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