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United States Coast Guard preparing for the Allied invasion of Normandy (WW2)
June 9, 1944. Sand flats seen at low tide in Normandy, France. Allied forces fighting their way inland during the Normandy invasion (Three days after D-Day) in World War II. Landing craft and destroyed buildings on the beaches of Normandy. German steel beach obstacles have been stacked out of the way. A United States Sherman DD tank sunk in sand. Badly damaged LCT-25 on the beach at Normandy, with her cargo of half-tracks still aboard and remains of the first one off, sitting at her ramp where it was hit by a German shell. Higgins Boat riddled with bullet holes. Scene shifts to January 1944 when United States Army troops descend from a troop transport ship into LCT-504 for practice maneuvers in the Chesapeake Bay. A soldier operates a Higgins Boat. Another soldier directs a Higgins Boat to the shore. Troops hit the beach in Higgins Boats driven by U.S. Coast Guardsmen from the Attack Transport ship, USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). United States troops carry equipment or belongings as they board ships to England in February 1944. Views of live aboard transport ships in convoys crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Coast Guardsmen near weapons at duty stations. Some troops are seen wearing life vests on board. Troops sleep or lie in hammocks in their quarters. Soldiers pass the time by playing cards, sleeping, reading and writing letters, and mending clothes on deck. Troops line the deck of the transport ship, USS Bayfield (APA-33), as the ship approaches port in England. Landing craft from the Bayfield, carrying troops, are seen in assault training exercises in England. Troops wading ashore during training. Coast Guard officers and sailors are seen aboard larger landing ships in exercises. Coast Guard officer smoking a cigar, as landing craft from the USS Samuel Chase speeds away after landing troops ashore. Trucks drive ashore from landing craft. Scene shifts to May 1944 and a formation of Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft dropping bombs on enemy targets in Normandy. Aerial view shows bombs falling.
U.S. Atlantic Command mobilizes to the Atlantic coast of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962.
Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. U.S. Army Strategic Army Corps (STRAC) is assigned to U.S. Forces, Atlantic Command. U.S. troops take part in various military exercises. A U.S. Air Force aircraft takes off from an airstrip. U.S. 1st Armored Division tanks rolling. The U.S. Army starts to mobilize. Troops travel by trains and jeeps.
Atlantic Coast Director, W W Schwenk in a meeting with other officials in War Shipping Administration Division headquarters (WW2)
View at War Shipping Administration Division headquarters in New York City. Atlantic Coast Director W.W.Schwenk discussing with other officials in a meeting. Schewenk discussing and looking into Secret War Administration Data Book. Door sign of 'OFFICE OF ATLANTIC COAST DIRECTOR - WAR SHIPPING ADMN ENTRANCE' can be seen. (World War II period)
United States Coast Guard parade and patrol in the Atlantic.
United States Coast Guard. Small boats underway at a college crew race. United States Coast Guards patrol boats control traffic and maintain law and order during races and parades. Yachts underway. Coast Guards fleet on parade. Cutters and patrol boats come to rescue the yachts during bad weather conditions. Officer on the cutter order spectator craft. Sailors aboard the cutter.
German POWs learn how to splice rope aboard USS Wakefield in the Atlantic Ocean.
German prisoners aboard USS Wakefield in the Atlantic Ocean during World War 2. A Coast Guard enlisted man in foul-weather gear and a white hat shows two POWs ( Prisoners of War ) how to make an eye splice at the end of a rope. Young German prisoner of war works on his eye splice technique as the Coast Guard sailor teaches him. Several POWs , some older and some younger, look as a Coast Guard man shows them how to splice rope. Several prisoners leaning against the railing of the ship. German officers including army, navy, and Luftwaffe officers walk on the deck.
Ships and ocean liners underway in the Atlantic Ocean and aircraft in flight over Europe.
A film on the development of air power in the United States. Scenes depicting travel by ocean going ships, preceding air travel. Animation of a small ship moving away from the east coast of the U.S. Actual footage of a large sailing vessel of the early clipper ship variety sailing in the ocean. Animation of a small ship sailing to the Great Britain. Real footage of a four-stack ocean liner, which appears to be the RMS Aquitania, sailing in the Atlantic Ocean. Animated map of the Atlantic Ocean and the coasts of the U.S. and England. An R-34 dirigible airship in flight. The R-34 moored to the ground with a large craft around the gondola. A British Bristol fighter aircraft in flight. Animation of the maps of the U.S. and the Great Britain coming closer together, figuratively, through the speed of air travel.
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