View from road overlooking French village of Arromanches-les-Bains, where the Allies established a logistics port during the Normandy invasion of World War 2. Barrage balloon is aloft over the water. Allied ships are visible in the distance. Camera turns in opposite direction, looking out over village rooftops. The barrage balloon is seen more clearly, and some ships are close to shore, where much war materiel is gathered on the beach. A group of U.S. soldiers walks down a sandy road toward the water. A group of French civilians watch the activies, from the hillside. A Landing Ship Tank (LST) is close to shore. Cranes and supplies and equipment line the beach. A variety of ships are in the water behind the LST.
British tanks knocked-out by German artillery, near Fontaine, Notre Dame, Cambrai, during World War 1. A large group of German infantry march around a knocked-out snow-covered British Mark IV heavy tank. Closer to a village, several German soldiers are seen on and aroung another British tank from which they appear to be removing arms and equipment. One German soldier, atop the tank, wields a hammer.
During Liberation of Paris. View of barbed wire enclosed area in Fort de Romainville (Nazi prison and transit camp) with bodies of civilians murdered by the Germans lying on ground (seen from a distance). View of main gate of Fort De Romainville with its inscription at the entrance. Elsewhere in Paris, a painter paints the French flag while children watch. Civilians on a street drinking wine. People bicycling on the street. A woman falls and people come to assist her. FFI (French Forces of the Interior) interrogating civilians on bicycles. (World War II period).
Scenes from the time of the Liberation of Paris. French civilians listen to French Liberation news on radio. People read FFI (French Forces of the Interior) posters on a wall. A communist flag flutters on a window. A board reads 'Rue Des Batignolles'.
Scenes from the Liberation of Paris. A partisan blows a bugle from a window. Two partisans discuss important issues at a desk. People walk about and descend the stairs of the Partisan Headquarter. A partisan writes a pass for his mother. A message on a typewriter. A woman partisan leader stands in a street.
LCI(L)s approaching the Omaha Beach shore during the D-day invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Among those see is LCI(L)541. Officer calling with a megaphone from ship's deck. The LCIs advance toward the beach. Explosion seen ahead. U.S. troops wade from LCIs under continuous German machine gun fire. Larger Landing Ships Tank, including USS LST-282, waiting out of range of enemy fire. U.S. troops and motorized equipment on shore. Burning U.S. truck. Fallen U.S. soldiers in the sand.M4A1 Sherman tank with bulldozer blade and "DT-7" painted on its side, moving along Utah Beach. LCI(L)88 pulls up to a transport ship to load more troops for transport to the shore. Vehicles being transferred from an LST to a LCT. Larger vehicles, such as tanks, being transferred to "Rhino Ferries" (powered barges) to be taken ashore.Troop reinforcements being landed at the beachhead. Major General Charles H.Corlett, " Cowboy Pete," Commander of XIX Corps,US 1st Army, seen speaking on the radio, after landing on D-Day+4 (June 10th) at Omaha Beach, near Colleville-su-Mer. Army trucks drive ashore in surf. A buldozer moves in the surf.
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