The anniversary of the D-Day at Utah Beach in Normandy, France during World War II. A band plays musical instruments and marches. Allied Generals and officers stand in the background. Soldiers with rifles march. The D-Day Monument to U.S. Army's 1st Brigade of Engineers in the far background. Girls in patriotic dresses. Sailors march. A large crowd of civilians at the ceremony.
Allied ships and aircraft prepare land in Normandy during D-Day in World War 2. Formation of Allied gliders are towed towards the coast of Normandy. Douglas C-47 pulling a glider. Allied warships sailing in rough, choppy waters off the coast of Normandy. A Consolidated B-24 Liberator drops six bombs. Various United States Army aircraft fly with distinctive “D-Day markings” (three white stripes and two black on the wings and fuselages). Bombs explosion. A formation of Martin B-26 Marauders. A ship fires rockets while being covered by smoke. B-17 Flying Fortress in flight. British infantrymen, wearing Pith helmets, on an LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) sailing towards Normandy. An LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) ship sailing. Allied aircraft flying over the English Channel.
Captured German soldiers raise their hands in defeat during the Allied Invasion of Normandy in World War II. Free French Forces Commando grins with missing teeth. Surrendered German soldiers are led away as prisoners of war (POW). German soldiers, both young and middle-aged, sitting on the beach. A balding German soldier wearing round eyeglasses. Allied soldiers frisk captured German soldiers for weapons. An injured German soldier rests on bed of hay. A German officer with a Nazi pin captured by Allied soldiers. Captured German soldiers with tired faces after capture from D-Day. German soldier chewing on weed stem. Injured German soldier lies down. Captured German soldiers, holding their hands up, are herded back to the beach to await their transport to camps. Sign on building reads, "BERNIERES," possibly for Bernières-sur-Mer. German soldiers sit on the beach behind barbed wire. German soldiers, all except one, duck down as something nearby explodes, and then rise again together. Captured German soldiers stand with their hands behind their heads on the beach during D-Day. Injured German soldier with bandage covering his left eye. Captured German soldiers being herded on beach, a barrage balloon flies to protect Allied supplies from overhead attacks.
Submerged tank with only turret visible offshore on D-Day. Landing craft sinks in rough waters as three soldiers cling to it during the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) in World War 2. United States soldiers jump into the water from sinking landing craft. Soldier swims to a lifesaver. Thick smoke from fire on the beach of Normandy. More Allied vehicles such as jeeps, trucks, and tanks, arrive on the beaches of Normandy. A United States GMC DUKW 353 amphibious truck with soldiers on the beach. A stone house on fire. Pillbox in ruins and on fire after assault by allied soldiers. A surviving German soldier partially buried in a trench brushes sand away from his face, trying not to suffocate.
Allied soldiers and tanks (M4A2 Sherman III Duplex Drive “Donald Duck” tank) enter a French town after the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) during World War 2. British soldiers running into town A dead French civilian on the road. British soldiers marching beside ruins. A French street devastated in ruins during D-Day. British soldier fires gun at house and field. Destroyed pillbox with bodies of dead German soldiers lying by the ruins. United States soldiers patrol a cemetery, shake hands with French man. A destroyed cottage with house roof skeleton exposed. Soldier rides a wheeled artillery canon being pulled by a tracked vehicle. A statuette of the Virgin Mary near an American soldier. Soldiers bring more supplies. Soldiers meet French locals while patrolling street. United States soldiers hiding in foliage attempt to draw fire from a sniper by raising a piece of cloth on the end of a rifle. Allied soldiers guard captured German prisoners. A pile of confiscated weapons from captured German prisoners in Normandy.
General Dwight D Eisenhower, General Spaatz and Air Marshal Mallory discuss the plan for invading Normandy, France during World War II. Supplies are massed in England for the invasion. British soldiers and U.S. Army soldiers preparing for invasion and boarding ships for the voyage across the English Channel. Some British troops carry bicycles on board. U.S. soldiers marching toward landing craft and boarding landing craft. United States bomber aircraft fly and bombard coastal defenses in France. Aerial camera view from inside allied aircraft as it flies low over German Atlantic Wall defenses and fires rockets at the coastal defenses. Aerial view of beaches of Normandy in the days soon after the D-Day invasion of France. Allied troops landing and bringing supplies ashore. Groups of German soldier prisoners of war lined up under Allied guard. General Montgomery visits Normandy, arriving and jumping down to the beach from a DUKW amphibious vehicle. People in England receive news about the invasion through newspapers. British citizens holding the Evening Standard newspaper with headline reading "The Invasion of Europe Begins." British civilians buying newspapers and reading the news. A busy street in England and a queue of people buying newspapers at a newsstand. View of Allied aircraft flying in formation and closeup views of faces of British civilians looking up at the sky.
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