United States 3rd Army advances towards the battlefront. Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces General Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. Army Generals George Patton and Omar Bradley meet. Generals seated at dining table, eating food. They discuss amongst themselves. Armored forces of the 3rd Army move forward towards the battlefront. Soldiers on tanks. Firing and bombardment on the battlefront. Smoke arises due to firing. (World War II period).
Unloading of supplies during the consolidation on the Utah Beach after the D-Day invasion of Normandy. USS Bayfield (APA-33) in the water. A jeep loaded onto a rhino barge from the ship. Loaded LCT (Landing Craft, Tank) underway. African American soldiers disembark from an LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized) onto a causeway. The LCM loaded with troops. Barrage balloons in the sky. (World War II period).
War materiel being unloaded from the freighter "Anglo-Mexican" at French port in Bordeaux, during World War 1. Railroad trains at the port. Derricks move the supplies, onto railroad flat cars at the port. They unload caissons and crates of artillery equipment.
Battle of the Somme, in World War 1.Two batteries of Royal field artillery moving to a position beyond Mametz, over battlefield where Gordons' and Devons' suffered losses during a charge on a ridge near Mametz. Horses pull numerous British artillery guns and limbers. The artillery assembling at the new location.
The British Dressing Station for slightly wounded at Minden Post, during Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. Medics providing first aid to the wounded. Watching in the background are several soldiers of the 24th Oldham (Pioneers) Battalion, awaiting orders to advance and occupy captured German trenches. German curtain artillery barrage outside the Minden Post. Their shells exploding in a line across the battlefield. A lone British soldier standing in the remains of British fire trenches wrecked by German high explosive shelling, minutes before. British patrol moving cautiously and stepping over barbed wire, in no-man's-land to clear the area of German snipers and hidden machine guns. They move along line of captured trenches checking for German soldiers hidden in dugouts.
French dignitaries meet in Paris. French Premier Edouard Daladier along with Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet board a flight to London. They meet with Chamberlain and decide to exert pressure on Czechoslovakia to succumb to Adolf Hitler's demand to annex Sudetenland territory. Aircraft taxis and takes off.
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