Rubble in the streets and burning buildings in the town of Isigny-sur-Mer, France, three days after the Allied invasion of France in World War 2. U.S. Army 29th Infantry Division soldiers stand guard in the captured city and other American Army units drive through the town, past burning buildings caused by Allied bombing the day before to counter German forces in the city. Wide view of the Place Gambetta at Rue Émile Demagny, with soldiers in distance standing near a stone pedestal and monument at center of town honoring Émile Demagny. A mix of U.S. soldiers and French civilians are seen in the streets. Close up view of flames and smoke coming from a burning building that has partially collapsed into the street. A U.S. Army soldier holds the hand of an elderly French woman and escorts her past the flames and through the rubble. Wide view shows the soldier and the woman in the center of a street with rubble from destroyed buildings on both sides.
U.S. Army 29th Infantry Division soldiers stand in smoke-filled streets of Isigny-sur-Mer, France, during its liberation from Nazi German occupation, three days after the Allied invasion of France in World War 2. Two American soldiers stand at a stone monument in Place Gambetta, at Rue Émile Demagny. View of the damaged Hotel de France in the town, and U.S. soldiers crouched under its sign, looking upward and likely monitoring for German snipers. Next scene shows a U.S. Army soldier standing guard with his rifle pointed at four captured German soldiers and one German officer. The prisoners of war are a mix of young soldiers and old. With sullen, exhausted expressions the German soldiers lean and sit against the building of the Cafe du Port. A seated German soldier has a bandage wrapped around one foot. Close-up view of an old French sign above the head of the U.S. soldier, dated 1867, that warns residents not to throw garbage into the port waters. A French woman wrapped in a shawl leans close toward a seated U.S. soldier while she speaks to him and points. A very elderly French woman, using a cane, and wearing traditional clothing of the region, walks past a group of American soldiers over top of rubble from bombing. A group of U.S. soldiers on patrol walks away from camera position toward other streets of the town.
A U.S. Army soldier lays prone in the foreground, looking at a destroyed German tank in flames on the side of the road, three days after the Allied invasion of France in WW2. Smoke billows from the tank. A transport vehicle passes carrying a group of U.S. Army soldiers with rifles. Another smaller vehicle passes by the tank. Closer shots show the tank wreckage left on the road, fire burning on the treads.
U.S. Army Caterpillar D7 tractor tows a LeTourneau carryall LS scraper through sand along the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach, three days after the Allied invasion of France during WW2. Soldiers walk past carrying material on their shoulders. A Rhino ferry comes in for landing on the beach, carrying dozens of men and vehicles. An M3 half-track drives off the ferry into the water, toward the beach, carrying men. Wide sweeping shot of the beachhead shows lines of U.S. soldiers on the move, U.S. ships, barrage balloons, and a crane.
U.S. Army soldiers prepare equipment and shovel sand at Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach, three days after the Allied invasion of France in WW2. Shot of U.S. Amy vehicles and equipment in front of a destroyed building on the coast. A tank drives inland with two deep-wading trunks mounted on its rear for amphibious landings. Hazy shot from elevated position shows a segment of coastline with many Allied ships in the water. Barrage balloons drift above.
Lines of U.S. soldiers march on either side of two moving M4 Sherman tanks, followed by transport vehicles, three days after the D-Day invasion of France in World War 2. The men and vehicles move in opposite directions. Allied ships and barrage balloons in the background. Scene cuts to new location where U.S. military vehicles and soldiers move about, barrage balloons clearly visible in the sky. Two M8 Greyhound armored cars and a smaller vehicle drive past. A soldier moves heavy equipment using a large tractor fitted with a bulldozer blade, raising his hand while shouting. More scenes of U.S. Army vehicles driving past. Shot of damaged vehicle. Procession of vehicles ascend slope, moving inland.
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