United States Navy offload material and equipment on a beach during the invasion of an island in the Pacific during World War II. U.S. Marines hide in the grass on the beach. Some natives walk around the area. A group of natives taken prisoners and a U.S. soldiers guard them. Supplies off loaded from amphibious vehicles. Dead body of a man inspected by the soldiers. DUKW vehicles and soldiers after landing on the beach. Number of natives without any clothes walk towards the landing vehicles.
U.S. Navy Patrol Torpedo (PT) Boat Base 21, at Mios Woendi Island in Dutch New Guinea during World War 2. A lizard on a beach as sailors look at it. One sailor bats a softball as others field the ball. They also throw a football around on the beach. They take a shower on the beach.
U.S. Merchant Marine amphibious vehicles during the invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Equipment roll out of a landing barge. An amphibious DUKW rolls up on a beach. British hospital ship Prague (#61) underway. Men and supplies on the Normandy beach. Allied infantry climb up. The beach in the background. An LCT (Landing Craft Tank) disgorge supplies. A tank is driven away. Soldiers unload supplies. A wind indicator on a masthead. A cargo ship underway in a harbor. Cargo ships at a dock.
American soldiers in Italy, during Allied Operation Husky, and Operation Avalanche in World War 2. In landings during invasion of Salerno, Italy, soldiers pause their movements while two use a detector to search for possible buried mines. They detect one and are seen carefully digging it up from the sandy soil. Soldiers unroll steel matting across an area of beach. Close-up of heavy trucks moving across the matting. A bulldozer uses a cable to pull a section of temporary docking out of an LST (Landing ship tank). Troops move across several sections of such docking as they make their way onto the shore. A sherman tank making its way toward the shore . More heavy equipment coming ashore from LSTs, including a US M1 155mm “Long Tom” Gun. The gun being towed on shore, as trucks and jeeps maneuver through shallow water nearby. A long line of jeeps and trucks moving inland. Military vehicles being offloaded from the British Landing Ship Tank (HM LST-200). U.S. troops moving on a beachhead, along with artillery pieces, and vehicles. Soldiers carrying boxes of supplies and ammunition and struggling with large wooden crates of such, in shallow surf, and using a roller conveyor to offload some heavy items from a ship. A landing craft suspended from a cable operated A-Frame on wheels (in the water). At this point the thrust of the film shifts to illustrate the hazards of amphibious operations, in general. Swamped vehicles and a landing craft in the surf. The beach littered with damaged and swamped landing craft and equipment, including, among others, a landing craft from the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). A huge explosion in the water. Glimpse of a German Junkers Ju 87 (Stuka) dive bomber attacking while being shot down by a U.S. sailor firing an anti-aircraft gun . View from above of sailors firing twin bofors 40mm antiaircraft cannons from an emplacement on a ship. Several German Junkers Ju 87 planes maneuvering as they attack. Quad bofors antiaircraft guns firing from a ship. More attacking Ju-87 dive bombers on the attack. A dramatic explosion and smoke from the Liberty ship SS Robin Rowan after being hit by a German bomb off the coast of Gela, Sicily on July 11, 1943. A landing ship burning from German bombing, off Gela, Sicily, with its deck full of halftrack and personnel carrier vehicles. The film continues the theme of losses encountered in wartime amphibious assaults, by shifting to the Pacific theater of operation, where a Landing Ship Tank (LST) is seen ablaze, off Guadalcanal, after being hit by Japanese shelling. View from beach with barbed wire, ashore, of the burning LST. Sherman tanks lost in a conflagration aboard an LST. Sailors carry a casualty on a litter, and place it next to other fallen crew members, on deck.
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.
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. A wrecked LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry ) fleet underway at sea in the background and a rough sea in the foreground. A large group of amphibious craft tied up alongside a mother ship. An LCI underway with bow completely out of water. A Coast Guard patrol boat underway in water. A Task Force off the coast of Normandy with barrage balloons flying overhead. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank) and a patrol boat underway at sea with an LCVP ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel ) underway in the foreground. A French boat near Normandy beach. A steel pier built in water. A Liberty ship with two LCTs ( Landing Craft Tanks) tied up along side. A sunken ship in the background. A city on the beach as barrage balloons fly overhead. The LST ( Landing ship Tank ) with its bow up on the beach as barrage balloons fly overhead.
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