Construction of an airstrip in France during World War II. Three sappers walk on a grassy area. They look for buried mines. The sappers dig out mines from the ground. Surveyors at work on the field. Two surveyors show equipment. Two engineers signal to the two surveyors. An engineer at transit signaling. A bulldozer pushes a huge pile of dirt on the field. Two guards and a group in the background. A scraper on the field. A soldier sitting at the back door of a vehicle talks with another standing beside him. The bulldozer and heavy equipment on the airstrip. The bulldozer and the scraper turn and go down the field. Insignia of the United States. Different views of the equipment on the field. An aircraft is towed and is taken to the airstrip.
U.S. soldiers at a camp in France during World War II. The soldiers on a field in the foreground. A dugout covered with camouflaged parachute cloth under trees. Two soldiers on a sailboat in a river. Trees in the background. The soldiers bathe in the river. Several pup tents under a camouflaged parachute. A camouflaged dugout under the trees. Men on the river side. Trees line a beach. A parachute tent in the background. A troop jeep pulls into the area. They ride down between trees and along the river. A soldier in front of the covered dugout with a walkie talkie. The river in the background. A spotter uses a phone and looks up through a camouflage netting at the sky while talking. A group of civilians walk on a street. Buildings in the background. Tents under huge trees. A close up of a parachute tent under the trees.
Wrecked gliders and aircraft on a field in France during World War II. Smoke comes out from a burning U.S. Army Air Force Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft in the background. The B-26 burns and thick smoke rises. A U.S. soldier near a 50 caliber anti aircraft gun at an emplacement in the foreground. The wrecked gliders. The invasion marks on the gliders. A wrecked Horsa glider and invasion markings on it. The name on one glider reads 'Spook' . U.S. soldiers at an gun emplacement and wrecked gliders in a field. Many glider obstacles. A wrecked CG-4 Haig glider and invasion markings on it. Trees in the background. Wrecked gliders in the foreground. An abandoned German tank. Glider obstacles near a tree. A crushed silver U.S. Army Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Personnel examine the P-38. Trees in the background. Wrecked gliders Horsa and CG-4 on the field. Invasion markings on the gliders.
A machine gun crew camps in France during World War II The crew sits in a group and reads a newspaper. A 50 caliber gun emplacement in the background. Two crew members read the Sunday Mirror funnies. The entrance to a tent covered dugout. Barracks bags near a tree in the foreground. An enlisted man hangs washed clothes on a string which is attached to a tent dugout. Trees in the background. Another enlisted man sleeps under a tent shed. A soldier leaves a camouflaged pup tent. Camouflaged item kept in side. The soldier walks out. Several pup tents. An enlisted man comes out and walks with a book in his hands. Another enlisted man sleeps in a dugout with a tent shed over it . He takes a gun and leaves.
U.S. soldiers at a camp in France during World War II. Wrecked Horsa gliders on a field and invasion markings on the gliders. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft parked on the edge of the field in the background. A gun emplacement in the foreground. A U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain taxis in the background while towing a U.S. Army Air Force CG-4 Haing glider. Personnel on the field in the foreground. An improvised operations tower and a personnel in the nose of the Horsa glider in the foreground. Wrecked gliders and parked P-47s. A small water tank on a trailer in front of an improvised shower in the nose of the Horsa glider. A soldier takes a shower. The chest of the soldier under shower. He dries himself under a heater. A soldier comes out of the improvised operations room which is in the nose of a glider. A soldier gets a haircut. He wears a camouflage cloth for cover. He is seated between the noses of two wrecked gliders. An operator in the front of the improvised operations tower speaks into a phone. Another soldier gets a haircut in the nose of the Horsa glider. The soldier cutting hair is wearing a medic armband. A wrecked glider. Invasion markings in the foreground. A C-47 taxis in the background towing a CG-4 glider. A P-47 parked on a runway.
Several United States aircraft taxi on a runway and take off in France during World War II. A tractor crane hooked to a wrecked U.S. Army Air Force Waco CG-4 glider. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts parked in the background. A U.S. Army Air Force Silver Lockheed P-38 Lightning taxi past the parked aircraft in the background. The aircraft while taxiing raises dust. Invasion markings on the aircraft. A USAAF C-47 taxis forward, takes a turn and takes off. The aircraft in flight over the low field. Insignia of the United States. A U.S. Army Air Force Martin B-26 Marauder taxis on a runway and raises dust. Another C-47 taxis on the runway and takes off. A signal aircraft in the foreground. Parked aircraft and trees in the background.
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