Prior to invasion of France. Officer explains surgery light system to other officers in LST. Operating equipment in surgery.
Preparations prior to the Allied invasion of France in World War II. American officers examine loaded vehicles aboard LST. Officers and crew watch. Elevator rises. Troops push away a truck from elevator. Signalman signals. Truck backs onto elevator. Officers smile.
American troops pull truck from elevator aboard LST, prior to the Allied invasion of France in World War II. Elevator rises with more vehicles. Star markings on trucks. Troops handle vehicles on deck of LST.
A loaded United States LST (Landing Ship, Tank) crossing the English Channel towards Normandy, France on D-Day in World War II. Boat is lowered. Troops aboard boat. Boat exits.
A number of Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft of 323rd Bombardment Group (9th Air Force) are lined up for takeoff. As they taxi past camera, tail number of one: 43-34344, is visible. All aircraft display the distinctive White Tail identifying the 323rd BG. (The Group is known to some as Wood's Rocket Raiders, so-named for their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Wilson r. Wood.) The location is Denain Airfield (A-83), near the City of Valenciennes, France. The time is April, 7,1945, a month before VE Day. Several airmen are pitching horseshoes, while others watch. They use a shoe to measure how close one came to the pin. Two airment use a two-man saw to saw a timber while a third sits on it to hold it still.
Allied Control Council meeting in Berlin-Schoneberg, attended by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, of United Kingdom; Marshal Georgy Zhukov, of Soviet Union; General Lucius D. Clay, of the United States, and General Jean se Lattre de Tassigny, of France. (World War II period).
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