United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam to guard the area around Danang Air Base. The U.S. Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 7th Fleet land on a beach in South Vietnam. Ships advance towards the beach. Vietnamese soldiers stand on the beach with a rifle. An LVTP-5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked) rolls onto the beach. U.S. Marines run on the beach. An LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized ) comes on the shore. The LVTP-5 driven on the beach. Marines run across the beach. Several marines lay against an embankment. Other marines stand on the beach. (Vietnam War period).
Allied invasion of Normandy, France on D-Day during World War II. Allied transport aircraft take off from England. The aircraft in formation flight as bombs are dropped. Bombs impact and billows of smoke rise up. The transport aircraft in formation flight as paratroopers jump. The paratrooper forces descend. An Allied Destroyer fires at a beach of Normandy France. An 8 inch gun fires at the beach. Allied troops transfer from a ship into an LCM ( Landing Craft Mechanized). Hospital medics in a landing craft. A cruiser fires at the coast. Allied soldiers disembark down a landing net into a landing craft. Troops aboard an LCM. A cruiser fires at the Normandy beach. An LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) loaded with troops underway towards the beach. A battleship fires at the beach. LCVPs near the beach. A heavy cruiser fires at the beach. Hits being made on the beach and explosions occur. The troops disembark into surf and wade through it to land at Normandy. An LCU ( Landing Craft Utility ) underway in the English Channel. An LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry) underway at sea. An officer hollers into a megaphone from the bridge of a ship. The LCU and the LCI underway at sea. Men on the open bridge of a ship.
United States Marines in Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. A communication center on the beach. A Marine in a trench and another Marine types on a typewriter on the beach. Smoke rises from the shore as explosions occur. A truck on the beach and supply boxes on the ground. Supplies being unloaded from an LVT (Landing Vehicle Tracked). Marines milling about on the beach. Lose gear on the beach after being unloaded. A trailer tows a truck on the beach. Tanks being unloaded on the beach. LSTs (Landing Ship Tanks) and other vessels at the coast as supplies are being unloaded. A barge comes in at the shore. LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) on the beach and wounded being carried on litters in the foreground.
D-Day invasion of France by Allied Force during World War 2. American troops wade ashore from landing crafts at Omaha Beach, Normandy. Wounded huddle together on Omaha Beach. Allied troops care for wounded on litters at the beach. Fallen American soldiers covered and lying on beach next to a dozen captured German prisoners of war. Allied ship burning offshore. Reinforcements coming from other beaches and from more landing craft. Troops wading ashore from landing craft. German soldiers firing rifles and mortars. A crashed Allied glider. "Screaming Eagle" insignia of 101st airborne Division on sleeve of paratrooper. German reinforcements of armor and infantry arriving from Berlin. British infantry leaving landing craft on another Normandy beach. They move rapidly off the beach and then fight their way inland, crawling at times. British artillery support firing. Views of British soldiers and American soldiers advancing in coastal towns of Normandy region. The steeple of a church falling to shellfire. British General Bernard Montgomery jumping down from an amphibious vehicle at a beach in Normandy. Allied troops riding armored vehicles into a French town. U.S. Air Forces P-38 fighters in flight overhead. Formation of British aircraft. Closeup of British De Havilland Mosquito bomber. Gun camera footage of Allied aircraft in close support, flying low and strafing German ships, flak towers, and fortifications. British Hawker Typhoon aircraft in action.
Activities of United States Marine Corps near Iwo Jima, Japan during the Battle of Iwo Jima, World War II. Bow section of Landing Ship Tank (LST-761). A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) pulls away. A pontoon causeway on the side of the LST. The marines aboard a landing craft. Smoke rises due to bombing of Iwo Jima and Mount Suriobachi. A heavy cruiser bombards the beach. The LVT underway towards the beach. Iwo Jima in the background. PC-578 Landing Craft underway at sea. A Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) alongside. The LVT heads towards the beach loaded with marines. A Task Force on the horizon. A Tennessee class battleship bombard the beach. LVTs in the foreground. A Landing Craft heads towards the beach area. The marines in the LCVP heading for the beach. Smoke comes from Mount Suribachi. A Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) in the foreground. Explosions at the beach area. A wrecked freighter in the foreground. Two Landing Craft Tanks (LCTs) advance up the beach.
Scenes on and around Omaha Beach after it had been secured, following the Allied D-Day amphibious invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Several U.S. soldiers move along the beach in a DUKW amphibious vehicle. A bulldozer seen in the background. About 25 German prisoners of war are seen awaiting evacuation, behind barbed wire on the beach,guarded by a U.S.military policeman. As a shell whines overhead they all instinctively drop to the ground and the shell explodes somewhere out of sight. An 83 ft. U.S. Coast Guard rescue cutter looks for Allied survivors in the water. The British Hospital ship "Prague" and others are seen at anchor, ready to receive patients. Wounded soldiers being carried on stretchers to a landing craft on the beach. A wounded man being transferred from a damaged LCI to another one. Wounded being hoisted in groups of 4 each, from the crippled and sinking LCI(L)85. The are lowered to deck of the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). Navy Rear Admiral, John L. Hall, Jr., observing the transfer of wounded. Sweeping views of Omaha Beach after the beachhead was secured. Numerous support vessels are seen close offshore. Trucks move along roads; war materiel is stockpiled in open areas; barrage balloons fly aloft; and soldiers move everywhere. Closeup of the LCI(L) 92 ,on the beach,showing the holes blown in her. The LCI(L)553, beached sideways in the sand. Seen beached and damaged, is LCI(L)87, flagship of Coast Guard Captain Miles E. Imlay, deputy commander of the Coast Guard's Omaha Assault Group O-1. Mechanics working to repair the screw from a boat.
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