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U.S. 705th Ordnance soldiers use scrap metal from beach obstacles to construct hedgerow cutters.
View of beach obstacles which were used to block Allied landing forces on the beaches of France. United States 705th Ordnance soldiers use welding torches to cut up beach obstacles for use as hedgerow cutters. Welders attach hedgerow cutters on M5A1 light tanks. Tank is about to be tested. The hedgerow cutter design came from Sergeant Curtis G. Culin, of the 102nd Reconnaissance Squadron. (World War II period).
United States military tank M5A1 driven into heavy hedgerow with a Culin hedgerow cutter attached (WWII)
United States soldiers fix hedgerow cutters in France during World War II. The military tank M5A1 is driven into heavy hedgerow. United States Ord soldiers fix the hedgerow cutters on tank M5A1. Soldiers climb up M5A1 tank and it is driven away. The hedgerow cutters were fashioned using metal beach blockades set up by the Germans in Normandy.
U.S. General Eisenhower inspects wrecked German equipment and meets with British Field Marshal Montgomery during World War II
Film opens showing General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking into a microphone, in France during World War 2 around time of liberation of Paris. Next, he is seen photographing a knocked out German StuG III tank destroyer and inspecting an overturned Tiger tank. Closeup of him examining the overturned tank. Next Eisenhower is seen in the back seat of a staff car, parked beside a large dwelling. A change of scene shows him strolling with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery across a pasture where British troops are encamped. The two leaders examine a map with other officers and continue walking together. Later, General Eisenhower photographs destroyed German artillery. While standing in a field littered with destroyed German military vehicles, he is approached by a British officer and British soldier. Eisenhower converses with the officer. An American Army photographer walks along a road littered with German wreckage, on his way to photograph General Eisenhower. Camera pans over damaged German artillery pieces and a destroyed Sd.Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. A, armored personnel carrier. As Eisenhower is about to board his staff car, two little French girls give him a bouquet of flowers. He thanks them and shakes their hands.
U.S. soldiers and German prisoners shelter under chalk cliffs on D-Day at Omaha beach in World War II
U.S. troops carrying a wounded soldier, of 16th Infantry Regiment, on a litter along narrow stretch of beach in the shelter of chalk cliffs on Omaha beach during D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, during World War 2. U.S. medics treating wounded under the cliffs. Two landing craft beached amidst the steel obstacles on shore. A German soldier receiving first aid from an American soldier. U.S. medic looks at ID information tied to a wounded soldier. Several German soldier prisoners of war, sitting on the shore. A destroyer escort offshore, firing a gun.
Passengers boarding passenger ship Kedmah at Marseilles port.
Israeli flag flying from passenger ship Kedmah at Marseilles port. Notice for passengers showing departure and boarding time. People up gangplank. French newspaper headlines reads terrorist activities in Israel. Ships funnel as whistle blown. People waving ship off. Jewish passengers aboard the ship. Clip ends with brief, unrelated scene of a crowd in France gathered on the steps of the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris (later the Palais Galliera in Paris). Flags of many nations are hanging from the stone colums in front of the building.
Senior U.S. Military Officers gather in Normandy after the Allied invasion in 1944
U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 transport plane, painted in D-Day invasion stripes, lands at improvised airstrip in Normandy, France,during World War 2. Barrage balloons surround the airstrip.The C-47 has numeral two painted by its U.S. star on fuselage. A second C-47 is seen on final approach to the airstrip. Foreground is marked by foxholes, possible shell holes and other signs of combat. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George S. Marshall and Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower are seen consulting with British Officer of the Scots Guards, who reads a military dispatch. Military Police stand guard in background. They are joined by Admiral Ernest J, King, USN, and Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, Commanding General, 1st Army . The military leaders board jeeps in a convoy. Lieutenant General Henry (Hap) Arnold, Commanding General, U.S Army Air Forces, seen briefly as he steps from a C-47 aircraft. Marshall, Eisenhower, and King, boarding jeeps. They look up as a U.S. Air Forces B-17 bomber flies low overhead. General Marshal conversing with a helmeted army soldier. Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN, Commander Western Naval Task Force, steps from a C-47 transport airplane, followed by General Eisenhower.General Marshall and General Bradley (with bandaged nose) riding in a jeep. General Eisenhower and Admiral King seated in a jeep. Convoy of senior officers passing several troops and military vehicles along a road. Air Forces General Arnold in front seat of a jeep.The jeeps arrive at a building.
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