A film titled 'DUKW: the sea going truck' on working and general features of DUKWs. Soldiers at a beach in the United States. Cargo and equipment stacked on the beach. A landing craft and a DUKW underway at sea. A truck moves along the beach. Men learn to operate DUKWs at a training school. They learn how to drive it on land. Men seated in DUKWs and operating them. The DUKWs moving along a street. A man comes out of a DUKW. He works on a tire and boards again. The DUKW moves. DUKWs moving along an area. Men shovel mud on a beach. A man comes out of a DUKW. Men standing behind the DUKW shovel mud. The importance of proper tire pressure for roads and beaches is emphasized. A bogged-down DUKW winches itself free. (World War II period).
Domestic activities of the United States Coast Guard in the United States during World War II. Coast guardsmen patrol a beach. Men seated in a car drive past on the beach. A U.S. Coast Guard man seated on a horse patrols along the beach. A Coast Guard patrol walks on the beach. Newspaper showing headline and article about disruption of Operation Pastorius by Coast Guard in World War 2, leading to capture of Nazi German would-be saboteurs. View of two of the captured saboteurs being escorted by guards. Smoke in the foreground from the burning of a ship. Men on the deck of a ship. They take an oath. Men aboard a motor boat. Men aboard a yacht and other ships underway at sea. Men aboard a life boat arrive at a beach. They carry the men rescued by them on stretchers.
View down Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, with Hollywood First National Bank Building featured near center. View of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (7000 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States) in Los Angeles, California. A view of Hollywood Boulevard in front of the Roosevelt Hotel. Grauman's Chinese Theater, later Mann's Chinese Theater (6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028, United States), is seen. Red Car trolley and automobiles move along the road. Entrance of the Roosevelt Hotel. A sign on the entrance reads 'Hollywood Roosevelt'. People walk in front of the hotel entrance. A view of buildings in Hollywood.
Allied troops establish a beachhead at Normandy. Beach area. Allied troops on the beach. DUKW (amphibious crafts) cross the beach. A house in the background. A Landing Craft Tank (LCT) with cargo on deck being beached. A medic on the beach. Soldiers in military jeeps and trucks. A mobile crane moves across the beach. Soldiers load lumber into trailer alongside a Landing Craft Tank (LCT). Soldiers march by. Several landing crafts on the beach. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows large stores of military supplies needed to support invasion forces in various areas during World War 2. An American C-47 transport airplane taking off from a field in a desert area. Local people with a donkey and cart in foreground. View from within a formation of U.S. B-17 flying fortress bombers flying above clouds. View shifts to the bombers silhouetted against clouds below. Complete change of scene to amphibious forces in action. Two American Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft fly just above the water at high speed to attack enemy shore positions in the Pacific. Close-up of one as it appears above the camera. Sections of a city separated by a body of water, somewhere in Europe. Huge quantities of war materiel stored on a beach in Italy, with mountains in background. Truck convoys transporting supplies away from the area. Landing Ships Tank (LSTs) sit at water’s edge with their bow doors open. One is American LST-350. Large mountain in background. Small multi-masted boats without sails, at an inlet in background. Soldiers are busy unloading equipment and supplies from the LSTs. View from above of cranes on barges loading landing craft with supplies at an established pier. Close-ups of LSTs being offloaded by American soldiers. Troops look out portholes of a transport ship. A number of Higgins Boats pulled up to the shore where trucks are lined up. Solders on a DUKW (amphibious truck 6x6) equipped with an A-frame crane. More views of the port showing a caterpillar bulldozer pulling trailers of supplies, and trucks. A large transport ship tied up at an established port, where it unloads a British Crusader tank. View into the hold of the ship where a number of Crusader tanks are stowed next to one another. Ships of an invasion task off Italy, silhouetted against a sunrise (or sunset). Views from a ship, of Allied minesweepers at work, in the flotilla. A twin funnel P2-SE2-R1 class troop transport ship is seen in the background. A formation of landing craft approaching the beach. Close-up view from beach of one beaching through surf and soldiers charging ashore. A U.S. Navy Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft flying low over the landing craft. Another landing craft (Higgins boat) hitting the beach and soldiers charging ashore. Next, several USAAF Curtiss P-40 aircraft fly low over the beach. A dog accompanying troops leaving a Higgins boat, has trouble walking across the cross-hatched ramp on the boat. More views of loaded landing craft speeding toward the beach and soldiers running ashore. Soldiers digging foxholes in sandy soil of an orchard of trees. At one point, they all take cover in their foxholes as air attack threatens. Glimpse of troops crouched in a ditch as explosion occurs nearby. (Note: Some of the later scenes in this film show troops in training exercises.) (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
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.
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