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Allied movements including dispatch of Airborne units, the day before D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War II
Final preparations for the D-day invasion of Normandy, France, in World War 2. View of the USS Augusta (CA-31). Allied senior commanders on the Augusta, making decision to delay invasion 24 hours for weather. U.S. Army Airborne troops boarding buses for airfields in England. Formations of B-26 bombers overhead. B-17 bombing lines of communication. Invasion convoy ships underway. Gliders and C-47 tow planes in D-day stripes. C-47 aircrews and glider pilots being briefed. Brigadier General James Gavin, Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, briefing his paratroopers. Chaplain conducting religious services. General Dwight D Eisenhower visiting paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division. U.S. paratroopers boarding their C-47 transport planes. Troopers fastening parachute packs (parapacks) of equipment onto a C-47 for airdrop. Paratroopers loading their equipment onto a Waco CG-4A glider. Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne putting on their chutes and equipment. Jumpmaster checking each soldier's chute. The troopers helping one another as they board the aircraft. C-47 tow planes taking off with gliders behind. All planes in D-day white stripes.
D-Day invasion of Europe at Normandy by British and American allied air, sea, and land forces in World War II
Views from ships in the Normandy invasion convoy of World War 2. American flag above a ship and barrage balloon aloft. The British naval ensign on another ship. U.S. Motor torpedo boat USS PT-541 signalling by lights. Blinker light signals by Allied ship. Allied naval warships bombarding the French coast. Troops of 2nd assault wave climb down rope nets from transport ships. Allied fighter planes strafing German flak towers, german airplanes, and railroad trains. Allied troops leaving their transport ships in landing craft. Landing Craft Tank (Rocket),aka LCT(R) firing barrages of rockets. Allied B-26 and B-24 bombers attacking ground targets. Allied troops being hampered by obstacles and some falling to German gunfire as they hit the beaches of Normandy. Survivors of sunk and damaged landing craft being helped ashore. British landing craft firing at beach houses. U.S. troops pinned under shore cliffs at Omaha Beach. Soldiers giving blood plasma to wounded. British troops leaving landing craft. Allied troops on beachhead and moving inland. U.S. troops wading ashore. Troops wading ashore from LCI(L)-537. An American M4 Sherman wading tank (with intake and exhaust funnels) and equipped with dozer blade, labeled: DT-7.
U.S. Army Engineers building a major Airfield on Saipan, during World War II in the Pacific
A vast project to build a major airfield on Saipan, in the Marianas Islands, to enable U.S. B-29 operations against Japan mainland. Bulldozers and trucks work on the field. Asphalt plant in operation and a rock crusher in use. A lone B-24 Liberator bomber is seen in the middle of the field. Trucks transport asphalt and rock to strip. The asphalt being laid by the soldiers and then rolled on the strip.
The United States demobilizes following World War II
Opening illustrated slate shows reduction of Amercan Armed forces personnel from more than 12 million in 1945 to only a little over 1 and a half million in 1947. U.S. Navy submarines are seen docked in storage. Men work spraying protective coatings over guns on Navy ships as they are placed in storage in the "Mothball Fleet." A lone sailor is seen on the deck of a ship with vast number of mothballed Navy destroyers in the background. A B-24 Liberator bomber being dismantled and a B-17 parked with engines removed, seen through stack of propellers in foreground. Airman sets a demolition charge. Views of several bomber aircraft being blown up as junk. Stacks of junked and scrapped American war materiel rusting. View inside a mill where molten metal is being processed (ostensibly recycled from junked war materiel). Narrator speaks of beating guns into plow shares. Several views of molten metal being poured into and from ladles. Views inside post-war factories returning to peace-time production, where industrial heavy equipment, railroad wheels, kitchen appliances, home appliances, rubber tires, and new 1946 Ford automobiles are assembled (looking exactly like the 1942 models).
Allied air attack on Japanese positions in New Guinea during World War II
'General MacArthur's forces launch drive on Japanese forces in New Guinea, during World War 2. Allied war equipment including airplanes unloaded at an Australian port. United States B-24, B-17 bombers launch an air attack on Japanese positions in New Guinea. Bombs dropped and cause an impact. Air gunner in one of the bombers looks down at impacting bombs.
Scenes from Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day, in World War II
Allied naval guns firing at the French coast during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, during World War 2. Troops clamber down rope net, from their transport ship, into landing craft, headed toward Omaha beach. Rockets being fired from landing craft, LCT(R)s,above other landing craft. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 and B-24 bombers dropping bombs on enemy targets. Allied warships firing heavy guns on inland targets. U.S. troops landing on Omaha beach, making their way through shore obstacles and suffering under heavy German gunfire that rakes the beach. Several American soldiers seen falling to German gunfire. Allied boats and rafts adrift and men being rescued by comrades. Medics assisting wounded.
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