August 1944: U.S. soldiers get off a Landing Craft on the French coast. Soldiers on U.S. battleships. U.S. officers discuss among themselves. Soldiers move across the beach. Soldiers sit outside an abandoned unfinished German pillbox. They examine German artillery. A camouflaged German gun IMPLACEMENT. A U.S. Landing Craft hit by a German radio controlled flying bomb. The charred and destroyed craft on the beach. Soldiers unload heavy equipment and vehicles including jeeps and tanks from Landing Crafts. U.S. battleships in the background. Blimps in the sky. Soldiers move across a street. Soldiers in trucks. Engineers construct an airstrip through a vineyard. Heavy machinery and equipment used to remove the rubble and bushes, as well as to level the ground. Military trucks and vehicles on the road. (World War II period).
Allied troops in France, during World War 2. Troops advance to attack at the St. Lo line. Soldiers seated on artillery and some on foot. They go through the city of Valognes. Military vehicles cross destroyed buildings. A man walks past ruins. A war correspondent walks on a Normandy beach. Many triangular beach obstacles with mines attached to them placed there by German forces and slave laborers.
Allied fleet advances during the Invasion of France in World War II. Invasion force, barrage balloons in the sky. Soldiers aboard a cutter manning their stations. Two soldiers seated on the cutter, 20MM gun in the background. Broadside view of a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) underway, bow of another LCI on the left. A large steel barge loaded with equipment. Assault wave heading for the beach, cruiser in the background. An amphibious craft heading for beach, bow of an LCI on the left.
Allied fleet advances during the Invasion of Normandy. Row of sunken ships form a breakwater at Normandy Beach. The assault force including Landing Crafts Mechanized (LCM) and Landing Ships Tank (LST). Barrage balloons flying in the background. Troops off-load onto a pontoon pier. Landing Crafts along the pier. Troops walk off onto beach from pier.
Allied troops establish a beachhead at Normandy. A tank retriever makes a left turn as a DUKW (amphibious craft) drives by. 6X6 Army truck driving up the beach. DUKWs and bulldozer on the beach. Crafts in the background. A Military Policeman (MP) in a trench coat holding a rifle. Soldiers march in the background. (World War II period).
British Marine Commandos and Canadian First Army attack Nazi positions during World War II. Soldiers on a ship ready to attack Walcheren Islands through the Scheldt Estuary in Netherlands. Soldiers load and fire artillery. Smoke arises due to explosion. British soldier on ship fires at the Nazis. The ship sinks due to the attack. British Typhoons dive bomb German battery. Soldiers keep a watch. Explosions in water. German guns hit a boat. Canadian First Army landing craft make landings on beaches at Flushing on Walcheren under heavy fire from the Germans. Machine gun and artillery fired. Soldiers carry equipment across the beach. Allied flags sway with the breeze. Soldiers fire at the retreating Nazis. Soldiers capture Westkapelle. Destroyed buildings and rubble. Soldiers celebrate the victory which opens the route to Antwerp.
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