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U.S. Army officers and war correspondents at the bombed, abandoned French Chateau de Pont-Rilly during World War II after D-Day

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).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022050
U.S. war correspondents and 101st Airborne Division mingle with citizens of a coastal French town after Allied Invasion of France in World War 2

U.S. war correspondents traveling with the 101st Airborne shortly after the Invasion of France by Allied forces in the summer of 1944. Allied officers aboard a ship. Soldiers on a beach of coastal France. Town buildings rising up from the shore. A French woman holds a cat. A war correspondent and a soldier from the 101st Airborne look at pictures and smile. Town buildings along a street of a coastal French town. A barbed wire fence with a beach in the background. A Red Cross flag on an American jeep. Massive seawall fortifications separating the beach and the coastal French town. Children play, walking on the sea wall and playing in the sand of the beach. Allied soldiers confer inside a tent. Ships on the coastline. An American flag aboard a ship.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022057
Andrews Sisters Patricia Marie, Maxine Angelyn and Laverne Sophie record Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy for 'V-Disc

A Colonel thanks Andrews Sisters on behalf of the Music Section of the Special Services Division for recording the three discs. Patricia Marie, Maxene Angelyn and Laverne Sophie record a song named 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy'. Musicians check instruments during the recording. Studio staff work on the pressing of the phonograph record. (Note: Although "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was recorded commercially for Decca Records on January 2, 1941, this filmed V-Disc recording session took place over three years later on September 25, 1944.)

Date: 1944, September 25
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022241
United States 1st Marine Division troops bomb Peleliu Island, Palau.

U.S. 1st Marine Division operations on Peleliu, during World War 2. U.S. F4U Corsair aircraft, flying low and slow, with gear down, drop napalm incendiary bombs on Japanese troops dug in on a ridge. Huge explosions seen. A C-47 transport airplane taxis on airfield. F4U Corsairs are seen parked and tents are pitched nearby.Several C-47s are parked on a ramp. Three F4Us taxi past them headed to the runway. F4Us take off and one is seen bombing Japanese positions on the ridge. Slate notes 1st Marine Division and D+24. Major General William Henry Rupertus,kneels on one knee, in sand, as another officer (shirtless) briefs him. They briefly discuss tactics and then walk away. Marine rifleman firing into burning wreckage of a Japanese position. Marine firing grenade from his rifle. Two Marines stand on beach with LVT (landing vehicle tracked) on the sand, nearby. They point at large ship offshore. Views of the Peleliu beachhead, with numerous ships and landing craft beached, including the second USS Seaward (LST 278) that collided with LST-129 and suffered considerable damage, On October 2, 1944. (LST-129 may be the LST seen next to LST-278.)

Date: 1944, October 9
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022856
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps combat operations at Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War II.

U.S.LST-129 and the second USS Seaward (LST-278) next to each other, in rough surf at rock strewn Orange Beach III, Peleliu, in the Palau Island group, during World War 2. These two LSTs collided and suffered damage on October 2, 1944. View of airfield with U.S. F4U Corsair aircraft parked. An F4U landing on the runway. Another aircraft takes off. Construction equipment and tents seen on airfield. A PBY Catalina aircraft takes off. Change of sequence shows battlefield with bare trees. F4U aircraft flying low and slow, with landing gear extended, drop bombs, raising heavy smoke clouds, at Japanese positions just beyond a nearby ridge.

Date: 1944, October 9
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022857
U.S. amphibious assault on Peleliu, Palau Islands, during World War II

U.S. 1st Marine Division amphibious assault agaist Peleliu, Palau Islands, on September 15, 1944, in World War 2. Coordinated assault involving many landing craft, troop ships,supporting warships firing at Japanese positions and F4U Corsair fighter bombers attacking from overhead.The entire island is shrouded in smoke. A U.S. carrier-based TBF Avenger aircraft is seen clearly banking overhead. An F4U in flight overhead. Explosions and smoke from bombardment. Two Landing Craft infantry (large) race toward the beach. The Cruiser, USS Louisville (CA-28) in camouflage (Measure 32, pattern 6d). U.S. aircraft bombing near the beachhead. Numerous landing craft assembling offshore. U.S. warships and LCIs (Landing Craft Infantry) offshore. Sun breaking through clouds and smoke.

Date: 1944, September 15
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022860