On the "Red Ball Express." Tires of a running Red Ball truck. Wrecked truck being cleared of the path by a tank. Convoy of Red Ball trucks. Towing truck pulls a disabled Red Ball truck. Mechanic make repairs to truck at a service station. Drivers drink coffee. The convoy moves on. Gasoline canisters being loaded on trucks. Operator inside a radio truck controls truck movements. Artillery shells being manufactured inside a plant. Medical supplies, ammunition, and equipment carried by trucks. Newspaper headlines states that the "Red Ball Express" is discontinued as French railway service improves. Montage shows Red Ball Express trucks lined up at parking lots.
German troops move cautiously among French farms and buildings. A German soldier looks through binoculars. A StuG III tank destroyer in motion. . A damaged and abandoned American Sherman tank. Allied aircraft bomb and strafe German positions, while German antiaircraft batteries fire at them. German gunners successfully down an Allied airplane, which crashes near their position. Two young German soldiers hop over their defensive position and run to investigate the downed airplane. Later, the gun crew paint a white stripe on their gun barrel to indicate a successful downing. (World War II period).
Development of early airplane. Louis Bleriot, distinguished French aviator, sitting in cockpit of his plane. Single engine , single winged aircraft in an open field. The plane takes off.
View from Canadian landing craft as Canadian troops of the North Shore Regiment (3rd Canadian Division) land at the Nan sector of Juno beach on D-Day. View on the beach shortly after the landing. Scene shifts to American troops disembarking from a landing craft LST elsewhere at Normandy on D-Day. U.S. Soldiers move ashore in a long line through the water to reach the shore as an explosion occurs in the background. (World War II period).
United States Army Generals walking and talking with other British Officers at beachhead. View of many United States Army soldiers at beachhead. General George C. Marshall and General Dwight Eisenhower can be seen in a car. General Eisenhower talks with British Officers. Eisenhower and Marshall talk to an Army officer as General Omar N. Bradley, with a small bandage on his nose, stands in background. Admiral Ernest J. King with the officers. Close-up of General Henry Arnold (Hap Arnold) standing, smiling, and talking with the officers assembled. (World War II period).
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General L. Montgomery in a car. Churchill is greeted by other Generals at beachhead. General Jan Smuts and General Sir Alan Brooke can be seen with him. View of many United States Army soldiers and British officers. Churchill and other British officers walk toward dock. Churchill and British officers on boat leaving the place. (World War II period).
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