Allied crewmen use binoculars to view the coast of the Cherbourg peninsula in Normandy during World War 2. The Allied invasion fleet approaching the peninsula the morning of D-Day in World War II. Allied warships firing rockets at enemy coastal defenses during invasion of France. Landing craft with U.S. soldiers and British soldiers heading toward shore during the assault. Landing crafts loaded with soldiers sailing towards the beachhead. Smoke rises from bombed enemy shore defenses. Allied assault troops landing on beaches of Normandy. Some of the soldiers fall as they are struck by German enemy fire. More troops disembark from landing craft and wade to reach the beachhead.
A motorcade arrives and dignitaries get off. German Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring greets French Marshal Philippe Petain and Admiral Francois Darlan in St. Florentin, France. Officers salute the two Frenchmen. Goring talks to Marshal Petain and Admiral Darlan. They board a train. The three leaders stand outside the train. A French flag on the car.
Uniformed U.S. war correspondents and U.S. Army officers explore the house and grounds of the French Chateau de Pont-Rilly, in Négreville near Normandy France, soon after the Invasion of Europe. (The chateau was designed in 1765 by architect Pierre-Raphaël de Lozon for the Marquis d'Ourville). U.S. Army officers in the balcony of the mansion overlooking the entrance. Exteriors of the palatial chateau. A large bomb hole is visible in the roof, right of the main entrance. A French boy points out something distant on the grounds of the Chateau. A swan in a pond. Exteriors of the mansion. At the end of July 1944, near the time this footage was shot, the chateau became the headquarters of Advance Section of Com Z, also known as "ADSEC" (Advance Section, Communications Zone).
Ground crews struggle to control an amphibian blimp being threatened by winds near the water at St. Malo, France. Aviator Barra Sturzt is visible above the cabin of the blimp, waving his arms and trying to direct the efforts of ground crews. Members of the French Auto Club, which organized the seaplane competition, are seen talking together. (At end, a few frames show several club members standing with a military officer in dress uniform with sword. To their left (right in photo) an aviator in flight gear, including helmet, walks toward a biplane aircraft parked on rails at edge of water.)
French Army trucks pass by in a line in Maurepas, Yvelines, France during World War 1. Artillery pieces are seen in the bed of the vehicles. Men standing by on the roadway.
View of a passenger ship SS Heredia docked at port in Saint Nazaire, France. Red Cross nurses dressed in coats and hats aboard steam ship bound for United States following World War 1. Nurses bid farewell by waving their hands.
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