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USS Bayfield (APA-33) loading equipment and troops during preparations for the invasion of Normandy during World War 2.
USS Bayfield (APA-33) anchored off Plymouth England to load troops and equipment of the 8th Infantry Regiment (U.S. 4th Infantry Division) and the 87th Chemical Battalion. Cargo net being lowered into a Higgins Boat, LCVP ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) alongside. Crew on the boat secure cargo in net. Several crew aboard the ship look over the rail of the ship. The cargo net being hoisted aboard the ship. Another Higgins boat arriving filled with combat troops. U.S. sailors remove the cargo net and unload two wheeled carts holding ordnance. One of the ship's landing craft can be seen on deck, bearing the number PA33-25. Crewmen work on cargo nets. One uses a wooden taper pin. Ttroops of the 87th Chemical Battalion begin boarding, carrying their special equipment. Coast Guard officer on deck . Several British vessels are seen in the water. Low hills in background.
The first U.S. C-47 aircraft (and its crew) to drop Pathfinder Paratroopers on D-day eve in World War II.
U.S. Army Air Forces C-47aircraft , number 42-93098, of the 9th Troop Carrier Command Pathfinder Group, and its crew. This is the first aircraft and crew to drop American paratroopers (pathfinders) over France during the Allied invasion, in World War 2. The aircraft taxis on a British airfield. Crew of the aircraft are seen in front of it, including pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Joel Crouch, Copilot, Captain Vito Pedone, Navigator, Captain William Culp, Radio Operator, Harold Coonrod, along with two crew chiefs. Crew members shake hands and board the aircraft. Colonel Crouch waves from the cockpit of the C-47 (but has not started engines). Major J.L. Sweetman boards another aircraft. Colonel Crouche's C-47 taxis to where the Pathfinders will load up. View of Control Tower at RAF North Witham, with ambulance parked outside it. Three hours before takeoff.Colonel Crouch, is seen on a path near the airfield, with a Pathfinder Captain and Lieutenant, who will be aboard his aircraft and be the first to jump into France. They kid around. The Pathfinder officers note that Colonel Crouch wears paratroop wings. Later, two Pathfinders, of the 101st Airborne Division , with camouflaged faces and American flag insignia on their right shoulders, step from woods and pose momentarily. Pathfinder Paratroopers line up to board C-47 aircraft as Lt. Col. Crouch rides a scooter at the airfield. Aircrews and Pathfinders pose for photographs before taking off. The lead aircraft, number 42-93098, with Lieutenant Colonel Crouch at the controls, takes off from RAF Station North Witham at 9:54 PM, on June 5, 1944. to begin the invasion of France. (Note: This C-47 was shot down on September 18, 1944, during Operation Market Garden, and crash landed on Haamstede Airbase, Netherlands. Although shot at by German troops on the ground, pilot, Maj Joseph A. Beck, and Navigator Lt. Vincent J. Paterno, survived as prisoners of war. Copilot Capt Fred O. Lorimer and another crew member were fatally shot.)
Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain and Daladier sign the Munich Pact in Munich, Germany.
Representatives sign the Munich Pact in Munich, Germany. Troops march, lined up. German tanks lined up. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler gets off a train. He drives in a car as people gather on roadsides to greet him. He enters a building. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier arrive and enter the building. Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain inside the building as they confer. Hitler and others at a desk as they discuss about the Munich Agreement. The statesmen sign the pact for an agreement over Czechoslovakia. Hitler and Mussolini confer.
Anthony Eden and Pierre Laval arrive to attend a session of the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland during World War II.
The League of Nations in session in Geneva, Switzerland following World War II. British and French Prime Ministers Anthony Eden and Pierre Laval step from a car out side a building. Interiors of the building with the League of Nations in session. A statesman addresses the delegates.
Australian officers come aboard USS Cleveland off the coast of Balikpapan, Borneo during World War II.
Allied officers and soldiers off the coast of Balikpapan, Borneo during World War II. Naval guns aboard a vessel in the foreground. Allied naval fleet in the far background. 1st Australian Corps Lieutenant General Leslie Morehead, 7th Australian Division Major General E.J. Milford and Air Vice Marshal come aboard USS Cleveland underway in the Pacific Ocean. A U.S. officer greets the Australian officers. British soldiers loaded onto an LCVP ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel). A soldier talks over a field phone. Smoke rises from the coast of Balikpapan.
Winston Churchill returns to London, England after his convalescence in Morocco during World War II.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill accompanied by Lady Clementine Churchill and daughter, Sarah (in uniform of Women's Auxiliary Air Force), arrives by train in London, after an absence of two months. He had fallen ill following the Tehran Conference and remained abroad to convalesce in Marrakesh, Morocco. A crowd of well-wishers fills the platform. He chats with British military officers and officials and correspondents.
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