Sunset in California, on Pacific shore. Small boats moored in bay. Waves splash on breakwater. View of buildings and road on the shore.
A U.S. delegation visits Normandy, France, 25 years after the Allied invasion of France during World War II. Soldiers and Honor Guard lined up. Military band plays. A cameraman records as a correspondent speaks. Children carrying American flags lined up along a path. Military officers seated in chairs. Civilians stand behind barricades. French officers at the ceremony. A helicopter in flight. A French Breton woman wearing a traditional hat of the Concarneau region. American officials including General Omar Bradley and his wife, along with General J. Lawton Collins. U.S. Ambassador to France Robert Sargent Shriver is also seen. Close views of General Bradley and General Collins seated side by side. British and American flags raised at the ceremony. A sign on a memorial reads 'In memory of our dead 1st Engineer Special Brigade'. A French flag raised. British, American, French and Canadian flags near the memorial at Utah Beach in Normandy. Military Honor guards standing at attention. Two U.S. Army soldiers in a small tank vehicle near the officials. The turret revolves. General Collins assists a soldier in lighting a flame torch. The soldier gets onto the tank. General Collins places flowers at the memorial.
Landing crafts underway to beach at Peleliu Island, Palau. Smoke columns rise from the Island. Aerial view of the Island. Boats burn on surface of water.
United States Marine Corp asleep on deck of ship around Peleliu Island, Palau. Landing Crafts fire rockets at Japanese enemy on beach. Marine works inside the ship. Captain on the deck of ship. (World War II period).
Two men chain lumber stack to fork of the fork-truck. Pier team cargo handlers give hand signals to the fork-truck operator. The truck operator at the steering controls the uploading. The fork-truck moves lumber stacks to the ship. A fork-truck enters the lowered bow of the LST. It unloads the lumber stack at the base of the tank deck. A fork-truck slides its fork under a lumber stack and lowers it to ground on wooden bases. LST-1141 with its bow down in the beach area
A marine beach controller talks on bullhorn and another one waves directional flag during troop build-up in Da Nang. UH-34G helicopters landing in field. Men run towards the aircraft and unload supplies from it. Helicopters take off. (Vietnam War period).
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