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Woman shopping for groceries at a supermarket in the late 1960s
Pedestrians walking in front of a supermarket in New York. Bottles of beverages are seen from store windows. A blond woman and other shoppers inside a supermarket. Packaged and prepared grocery items such as Old London Melba toast, Campbell’s Soup, Knorr Beef Noodle Soup in the aisles of the supermarket. Woman takes cans of Campbell’s Soup from shelves. She also picks up a pack of paper napkins, kitchen sponges, Woolite, and dishwashing soap and puts them in her shopping cart. Shopper picks up a tray of Sara Lee Apricot Danish pie from the frozen food section. Various products at the frozen food freezer in the grocery store.
Tehran Conference and successive preparations for D-Day attack on Nazi regions in France by Allied forces (WW2)
World War II Documentary entitled "D-Day Convoy." Leaders and military Generals of the Allied nations at the Tehran Conference. U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill, Soviet General Stalin, General George Marshall of U.S. Army, General Eisenhower. Map showing the targets of raid in France under German occupation. Immense military ammunition, artillery, tanks, weapons and infantry troops amassed in England and readied for military raids. American infantry troops being trained to raid the Peninsula of Normandy. Troops advance between bomb blasts and gun fire during training. Allied air force bombers bombing their targets in France. Formation of Martin B-26 bomber aircraft flying overhead. Point of view shot from inside aircraft, seen through rain spotted plexiglass gun canopy, flying very low over a French village, on the way to bombing target. Aerial view of U.S. Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress bomber dropping bombs over enemy target in Europe. View of bombs falling away from aircraft toward targets during a day time bombing raid. Explosions and smoke on the ground as targets are hit. Aerial fights between German and Allied air forces. Gun camera footage scenes as seen from Allied aircraft as they shoot at German airplanes. Several scenes of German aircraft exploding in flight. Airplane blasts in sky. U.S. army troops with ammunition moving toward camps in southern England. At the marshaling area soldiers receiving and trying on gas masks. They also receive inflatable life belts, food rations, cigarettes, candy including Hershey's chocolate, and French money as invasion currency. Briefing of the troops by the commanders.
Allied forces gather in British seaside ports and depart in convoys to invade France during World War II
Opening scene shows U.S. troops, tanks, jeeps, and trucks assembled in a sandy marshaling area in southern England preparing to proceed, on 30 May 1944, to embarkation points for the invasion of France during World War 2. Troops are seen heading toward Sherman tanks, landing vehicles, tracked, and other military vehicles. An army Captain is seen overseeing some of the activity. The troops riding armored vehicles and trucks begin moving in formations from the marshaling area. Wading tanks and Sherman tanks, some pulling artillery pieces, are seen moving through an English town.(An unusual deep wading tank with no turret and two forward guns in the front is seen. (It seems to be a modified Stuart tank.) Next, the vehicles are seen arriving at a seaport pier, where a large transport ship is docked. A heavy truck is seen loading in reverse aboard British Landing Craft T 453, at Trebah gardens (Polgwidden cove) at Falmouth docks, Grove place slipway falmouth, England. View from the landing craft as another truck backs into it. Another truck driving forward onto a landing craft. Allied troops marching toward the embarkation points and marching from a pier to board a transport ship. Troops boarding USS LST 376. Troops boarding Higgins boats to be ferried to their transport ship, the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) anchored in the harbor. Troops stepping from the Higgins boats to board the Samuel Chase. Some of the troops boarding the transport ship by means of a landing net, and being helped aboard as they reach the top. Camera pans across the harbor where transport ships are moving to their places in the invasion convoy. View from a ship underway, with other transport ships behind it and barrage balloons in the air above. Troops on a ship's deck shooting craps with dice. Sailors playing with a small puppy. Soldiers napping on deck. View of sailors on a warship being briefed in groups about their forthcoming combat roles. Troops being briefed about the invasion operations. Troops checking and making sure their personal arms and equipment are ready. One soldier shining his boots. The U.S. battleship USS Arkansas (BB-33) seen at anchor. Closeup from rear of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, British Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay and another officer on the deck of British light cruiser, HMS Belfast. Major General Clarence Ralph Huebner, Commanding General of the 1st Infantry Division ("The Big Red One") standing on deck of the cruiser, USS Augusta (CA-31) together with Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, who is later seen with his Chief of staff, Rear Admiral Arthur D. Struble, on the deck conversing with officers. An unidentified American admiral walking along a ship's deck followed by a Captain and other members of his staff. Other officers conversing on a ship's deck. Inserted near this point is a view of a U.S. Navy Vice Admiral walking along a deck followed by a Captain and other naval officers.
British spitfire aircraft engage German Heinkel 111 bombers during the Battle of Britain in World War II
A formation of German Heinkel 111 bombers is seen flying in formation during period of World War 2 blitz attacks on England. View from copilot's side of the cockpit of one bomber. View of Pilot in the left seat. View from window in left side of the bomber. View from inside the nose of bomber as it approaches shore of England. Pilot and copilot don oxygen masks. Views from gunner's position in the bomber's nose, as a British spitfire fighter plane attacks. German gunner fires machine gun, continuously, at the attacking spitfire, as it zooms past the bomber's nose. Another spitfire attacks directly head-on. The German gunner fires. The spitfire pulls up and over the bomber. Gunner firing at two spitfires passing beside it. One of them is struck and streams smoke as it slowly falls downward to crash (unseen). Another spitfire aircraft making a head-on attack, is fired upon and makes an aerobatic maneuver away. Closeup of the German machine gun firing tracer rounds, and striking another spitfire that inverts and dives down streaming smoke.
WWII scenes in Britain and Scotland; countryside, industrial cities, castles, shipyards and a factory making ammunition
World War 2 activities of the British in Great Britain. Industrial areas in Britain with opening shot of steel mill area, heaps of coal, and smoke pollution pouring from industrial stacks. An advertisement shows old country towns in Southern England. Other advertisements show Dunkeld Cathedral and a country vacation in Southern California. The countryside with bucolic fields and pasture scenes in view. Cattle grazing in a field. Exterior wide view of steel mills of Sheffield. A village with a flowing stream. Old castles in England. A shipyard on the River Clyde with ships anchored. Old cathedrals. Industrial cities of Birmingham, Glasgow, and Manchester are shown with aerial and elevated views of industrial stacks and smoke pollution from industry. A train passes by an industrial plant in Leeds. Interior views of a war materiel munitions factory in Great Britain in which British men and women war prodution workers are making war ammunition, shells, and ordnance.
Red Devil paratroopers of British 1st Airborne Division, drop into Holland to outflank the German Siegfried Line in World War II
At start, the film shows a formation of American C-47 transport aircraft with paratroopers starting to jump from them during World War 2. Viewed moments later from the ground, the sky is filled with trooper' open chutes, descending. An animated map shows Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany. It shows location of the Allied paratroopers drop in Holland, intended to spearhead a drive around the Main River into Germany. The map then shows German forces encircling the paratroopers and the Second British Army heading North to the rescue. Next, a huge number of American Soldiers are seen assembled out of doors in England. Closeup of General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking in a microphone to the assembly. Closeups of soldiers including some who are American Army Air Corps pilots, and other aircrew members, mostly Lieutenants. Senior Paratrooper officers stand at attention in front of formation of troopers with American flag beside them.(Narrator says these were the men who made up the "lost division," heroes who fought alone for seven terrible days.) General Eisenhower makes his way between close ranks of the paratroopers. He is followed by Brigadier General and a Colonel. Lieutenant General Lewis H Bereton also makes his way through the ranks. Scene shifts to a base in England where many British Airspeed AS.51 Horsa gliders are seen with paratroopers heading across the airfield to board. American C-47 aircraft are seen in the background. All aircraft are painted with D-Day stripes. Several British and American paratroop officers review a map together. At a tent camp, A military policeman and two U.S. paratroopers checking their weapons and ammunition. Some troopers sharpen their knives. A trooper is issued Dutch and German money. A British and and American trooper in camouflaged helmets, pose before a glider with a huge British roundel on its side. British paratroopers boarding a Horsa glider, named "Gertie." A Horsa glider moving as it is towed by a British Whitley twin-engine bomber. View from side of runway as the bomber takes off with its towed glider behind. (Narrator comments: "Destination, Holland.") Formations of tow planes and gliders in flight. View of pilot in cockpit of a Whitley bomber. Formations of fighter aircraft in flight overhead. View from inside an aircraft as paratroopers exit through a side door. Sky filled with paratroopers in chutes descending. (Note: This Allied thrust into Holland to launch a drive around the German Siegfried Line was known as the Allied joint American-British "Operation Market Garden," which took place 17 to 25 September 1944, the 7 days referred to by the film Narrator. )
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