A film about the role of U.S. Navy Seabees in construction of artificial harbors during the Allied invasion of Normandy, France in World War II. A pier head as trucks are being loaded with supplies. Ships underway at sea. A Rhino ferry along side a Liberty ship as cargo is being loaded onto it. A jeep in a hoist as it it is unloaded onto a Rhino ferry. A Rhino ferry carries vehicles to the shore. A jeep followed by a truck as they drive onto the shore. Men of 1006 Pontoon Detachment work on a causeway. A U.S. Naval dispensary at Utah beach. A camp being established at the beach. Commanding officer Jack Green Walter arrives in a car at the camp site. Food being prepared at the camp kitchen. At Cherbourg, a main pier with a railroad station. A crane lifts damaged equipment.
A film about the role of U.S. Navy Seabees during the Allied invasion of Normandy, France in World War II. A German chart of Cherbourg harbor. Allied officers at a German hospital restructured by the 28th Battalion. A statue of Napoleon on a street. A naval headquarter building. Dr. Anderson of 81st Battalion with the first French baby delivered by him. The baby named 'Seabee' with his parents.
Allied crewmen use binoculars to view the coast of the Cherbourg peninsula in Normandy. The Allied invasion fleet approaching the peninsula the morning of D-Day in World War II. Allied warships firing rockets at enemy coastal defenses. Landing craft and barrage balloons head toward shore. Landing barge loaded with soldiers sailing towards the beachhead. Smoke rises from bombed enemy shore defenses. Allied assault troops land in Normandy. Some of the soldiers fall. More troops disembark from landing craft and wade to reach the beachhead.
A harbor in Cherbourg, France during World War II. Two vessels anchored to the harbor, one of them the Destroyer Escort USS Donnell (DE-56) recently converted to duty as Electric Power Barge (IX-182) supplying power to shore in Cherbourg from her turbo-electric generator. A smaller ship "32" by her side. A crane in the dock in view. A man on the dock. Flags flying on the two ships. Men step from the USS Donnell to the harbor. Few officers and sailors standing and talking on the USS Donnell aka Electric Power Barge IX-182. View of shore battery anti-aircraft artillery gun beside the dock. Men unloading materials from a truck and a few men at work with a concrete mixer including German prisoners of war under guard. Several seamen beside a board with 'US Navy Boat Landing' written on it. Small boat arrives and a number of U.S. Navy sailors come ashore.
Allied invasion of France during World War II. 4,000 Allied ships underway at sea towards the Cherbourg peninsula. Allied soldiers move down a net onto landing crafts on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Allied planes bombard the area and Naval artillery fires heavily. Scenes of various Allied Soldiers landing at Normandy beaches, including U.S. Army forces and British and Canadian forces. (Canadian forces landing at Juno Beach.) Troops wade through water. German assault from gun emplacements kills Allied soldiers during landing. Dead U.S. Army soldiers on the beach. Wounded soldiers provided medical aid by. German Prisoners of War marched away. A french man carries a U.S. flag near a group of U.S. soldiers at the "BERNIERES" station in the town of Bernières. Allied aircraft drop bombs over bridges and explosions occur. Heavier military equipment moved in by Allies. Allied troops advance in various towns of France. Captured German equipment piled up high. Supreme Commander General Eisenhower visits the area and is seen together with General Bradley and British Field Marshal Montgomery.
U.S. Secretary of War Stimson, General Omar Bradley, and U.S. General George S. Patton tour a field hospital in Normandy, France during World War II. Bradley poses outside a hospital tent with Secretary Stimson and an army doctor. Wounded soldiers in the tent. Signs on boards outside the tent. The United States Army generals visit a battlefield graveyard above Omaha Beach after D-Day. They drive down to Omaha Beach, still littered with equipment.. They look around. A flag on the beachhead. Soldiers stand on the field. Tents on the field. Soldiers work on the field.
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