Locomotive train leaves the Mount Tamalpais Tavern located on the summit of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California. The Joseph G. Eastman “The Bull” locomotive builds up steam before its descent from the mountain. Some visitors are seen entering the Tavern on the right. The balconies of the Tavern. A man and a woman on the train. The chaparral-covered south slope of the east peak of Mount Tamalpais comes into view. The railroad train rounds the next curve.
Role of United States Coast Guards. A luxury liner, SS Morro Castle burns at sea as smoke rises from it. United States Coast Guard Cutter Tampa (WPG-48) underway to rescue the people on board the liner. A 75 foot long patrol boat underway to reach the burning vessel. Men aboard life boats. Men swim in the sea as lifeboats rescue them. Men swim towards the beach where beach patrol men save their lives. Smoke rises from the burning ship. USCG Cutter Tampa seen towing the SS Morro Castle after the disaster (but the hawser then broke and the Morro Castle drifted aground). Remains of the charred vessel aground at Asbury Park, New Jersey.
French Foreign Legionnaires during practice landings under U.S. Navy supervision in North Africa. French soldiers in Landing Crafts Vehicle Personnel (LCVP). Landing Crafts move in the sea towards the beach. Soldiers crouched in the crafts. They get off the crafts and wade through the water towards the beach. A French flag on a craft. Crafts approach beach. The soldiers move inland amidst set dummy explosions. (World War II period).
French Foreign Legionnaires during practice landings under U.S. Navy supervision in North Arfica. Lnding Crafts Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) move off shore. Soldiers climb down landing nets from transport to LC. Soldiers in a craft with a flag. One soldier looks ahead through binoculars. Soldiers wade to the beach. Barbed wire fences on the beach. Two half tracks driven off the LC ramp and aross the beach. (World War II period).
U.S. Navy officers and sailors aboard a landing craft still at port in England, pose with chart of their destination in Normandy, France, during World War 2. They all raise their caps for the cameraman. U.S. troops fill deck of a large landing craft infantry (film reversed). Views of other landing craft underway. U.S. troops standing aft on a ship. View of a destroyer escort ship. Landing craft underway in moonlight. Barrage balloon visible overhead. A camouflaged Benham class destroyer passing abeam the camera ship. More views of landing craft and barrage balloons. Officer aboard ship using a telescope. A Destroyer escort and another view of the Benham class destroyer. (These color sequences are reversed) Black and White sequence 02:36 to 03:39 shows members of the Canadian North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment approaching and landing on D-day, at La Rive Plage,Bernieres-sur-Mer, France. Scenes are interposed with some of U.S. troops wading ashore at Omaha Beach. At time code 03:40, Troops of the U.S. Army First Division, the "Big Red One," are seen wading ashore on Omaha beach, from Higgins boats of the transport ship, USS Samuel Chase. (APA-26). U.S. soldiers reaching the beach from the surf, as two fall to German gunfire.
Allied troops land in Normandy during reinforcement operations in June 1944, in the weeks after D-Day, in World War 2. The U.S. 3rd Armored Division on Landing Ship Tanks (LST) heads towards Normandy. Tanks, trucks, vehicles and equipment on the LSTs. British crew and officers including the Captain on deck. The Captain looks through binoculars. A sailor looks through a telescope. The beach at Normandy filled with battle ships, carriers and Landing ships wait for the tide to recede off shore to avoid unloading equipment in deep water (landing ramps having been destroyed by earlier storms). Barrage balloons overhead. Soldiers build ramps on the beach. Half tracks, trucks and other vehicles driven off the LSTs and across the ramps on the beach.
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