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British troops landing at Sword Beach on D-Day. And U.S. troops landing at Omaha Beach.

During the D-Day Invasion of Normandy. British troops disembark from landing crafts at Sword Beach and move in lines towards the beachhead. Military trucks and tanks are seen on the shore as smoke emerges from a hill on the beach. Various wrecked building on shore. British troops carrying equipment and a bicycle ashore. In last 15 seconds scene shifts to landing of U.S. 1st Infantry troops at Omaha beach. View of waters edge from higher up beach. Gear and bodies floating in water. U.S. Army soldiers coming ashore as several are struck by German machine gun fire and drop to the ground. (World War II period).

Location: France
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038172
British and U.S. troops advance forward into French towns just after D-Day invasion of France.

British troops advance along a railway track in France near Normandy. British troops at West Wall (Siegfried Line). Destroyed German fortification. Several dead German soldiers are seen. View of SU soldiers on patrol in streets as they meet French civilians. They advance along a cemetery wall. U.S. Army soldiers try to find sniper's position by raising a cloth covered stick. Footage shot between June 6 and June 9, 1944 (D-Day to D plus 3) (World War II period).

Location: France
Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038175
British sailors tell stories of their rescue to Women's Army Corps Captain in England (WW2)

Two British seamen recount their D-Day Normandy invasion rescue to a Women's Army Corps (WAC) Captain in Plymouth, England in World War II. Seaman on the left tells how after a British carrier hit a mine and the American soldiers had to swim to the shore. Seaman on the right tells that the carrier, on which he was there, was hit at the beach broadside and the men had to swim through rough seas. Most of the men were picked up by a United States landing ship and returned to England.

Location: Plymouth England United Kingdom
Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 5 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038188
General Dwight Eisenhower with other United States Army Generals and British Officers at beachhead in France.

United States Army Generals walking and talking with other British Officers at beachhead. View of many United States Army soldiers at beachhead. General George C. Marshall and General Dwight Eisenhower can be seen in a car. General Eisenhower talks with British Officers. Eisenhower and Marshall talk to an Army officer as General Omar N. Bradley, with a small bandage on his nose, stands in background. Admiral Ernest J. King with the officers. Close-up of General Henry Arnold (Hap Arnold) standing, smiling, and talking with the officers assembled. (World War II period).

Location: France
Date: 1944, June 12
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039026
British Motorized Submersible Canoe (MSC) Sleeping Beauty making an underwater attack.

Fourth in a series of clips about the British-designed Motorised Submersible Canoe (MSC) known as Sleeping Beauty, designed for attack and reconnaissance. Pilot sits in cockpit of the British submersible. Submersible is swum on water surface. Pilot puts on his nose clamps and fills the cockpit with water. Flooded submersible goes underwater. Submersible running underwater and reaches target ship for attack. Submersible nears the tanks of the ship. Submersible running underwater and reaches surface of water. (World War II period).

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1943
Duration: 6 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039090
British soldier reads war news from newspaper to assembled group of civilians in Europe during World War 1

Civilian people assembled to hear the war news from a British soldier (British "Tommy") during World War I. The soldier reading newspaper aloud to group of men, women, and children. A group of civilians pose beneath a German propaganda trademark sign, 'Gott Strafe England' (God punish England).

Location: Europe
Date: 1918
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039557
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