British military equipment is massed for the attack on Caen after the Allied Normandy landings in World War 2. British tanks covered with tree branches and net as camouflage. Rows of British tanks (likely the Mk IV Churchill tanks) park in a field near Caen. Red Cross medical ambulance trucks near Caen. Red Cross medics unload supplies from ambulance trucks. British forces moving into Caen for an attack. British Army trucks and jeeps move towards Caen.
United States 101st Airborne paratroopers adjusting their chutes in England during World War II. The paratroopers help adjust each other’s equipment. The officer calls the roll, paratroopers are seen standing in line. The officer himself checks the equipment of each man to see that he is properly harnessed. He helps adjust the harnesses on some of the men. The first officer takes down notes on his pad as he talks to another officer. Men adjust supply chutes underneath a plane.
United States Army 36th Infantry Division before Night Drop during World War II. A group of paratroopers hold a briefing near a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane. A paratrooper with camouflaged face smiles. Three paratroopers with camouflaged faces stand near a C-47. Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton arrives at the airfield. Brereton speaks with officials, officers, and paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division. Brereton boards a staff car with a plate number “USA T11126”. Officials talk near a C-47. General Brereton speaks with a pair of paratroopers. A C-47 taxiing.
United States paratroopers with camouflaged faces marching. The paratroopers board a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane in England during World War II. Some paratroopers talk near the plane. A paratrooper reads a document. A paratrooper unload bags from a plane and another one sits on top of the transport aircraft.
United States Army paratroopers with camouflaged faces carrying full packs as they march on a field in Normandy, France during World War II. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport planes taxi and park on airstrip in England. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane takes off. Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton is seen on airfield.
United States Army paratroopers march on airstrip in England during World War II. A paratrooper with a life jacket (Mae West) struggles to put on his pack while his colleagues assist him. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport planes taxi and take off on airstrip at dawn. Paratroopers carry supplies to transport planes. A paratrooper offers cigarettes to his colleague. Paratroopers smoke cigarettes. Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane with its engine running. Some officials are seen standing near the transport plane. The paratroopers load supplies into the planes.
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