Unloading of supplies during the consolidation on the Utah Beach after the D-Day invasion of Normandy. A British LCT (Landing Craft Tank) is stranded. APA's (Attack Transport ship) command boat leave the causeway. Rhino barges loaded from an LST (Landing Ship, Tank). Loaded DUKW (six-wheel-drive amphibious truck) in the water. USS Bayfield (APA-33) and two hospital ships in the water. The bow and the navigation bridge of USS Bayfield. (World War II period).
Armenian parade units and other units dressed up fancily as they march at the Independence Day celebrations at Washington Monument and Treasury building in Washington DC, United States. Lithuanian dancers perform as people look on. United States 50th Infantry Drill Team lined up. French and British Marines parade during the celebrations.
Royal Marine Artillerymen load and fire a 15-inch ("Grandmother") howitzer, during the Battle of the somme, in World War 1. Shells weighting 1400 pounds each are lined up. A Marine next to a shell on which is written 'to Willie with compliments. ' Shells lifted up with the help of a crane. British Marines adjust and fire the 15 inch Howitzer. Explosions occur across barbed wires. Howitzer fired and smoke rises.
Battered German strongholds in Fricourt, France, during Battle of the Somme. Labor Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, repairs a road. Wreckage all around, destroyed fortifications. Dugouts 20- 30 feet under the level of the battlefield. A British soldier in a trench.
Ruins in shell shattered village of Mametz, France, during Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. Destroyed houses and rubble in the village. Captured German dugouts, sand bags and a British soldier in the dug out.
Second Battle of the Somme in World War 1.German prisoners of war assembled in fenced areas of a field. British Mark V tank in background. Allied troops move a small artillery piece down from peak of a hill. American soldiers carrying towels as they enter a building to bathe, in a rear area camp.Some of them are seen inspecting their clothing for pests before putting it back on. Others are rewrapping their leggings and putting on boots.Troops marching up a hill. Others coming through a gate engraved with name: "Ecole de Preservation." They march over a bridge from the gate. A young soldier being interviewed.He wears a ribbon on his uniform for a decoration he may have just received. He salutes an officer who stops to talk and shake hands with him.
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