Allied invasion of northern France during World War II. Allied bombers attack the coast during invasion of France. German coastal fortifications of the Atlantic Wall are shown. A German officer looks through binoculars. He surveys Allied ships and crafts approaching the coast. German coastal guns fired at the Allied fleet in the English Channel. Smoke due to explosions in the water. Soldiers fire artillery. They load shells. Ships hit by the artillery fire. German pillboxes and fortifications. German soldiers inspect damaged and wrecked crafts washed ashore. Soldiers look out to the sea. Camouflaged German tanks and infantry move through a French village. Explosions in fields. Machine guns fired. Soldiers take cover, fire in prone positions. They advance past wrecked and damaged Allied tanks. Allied prisoners marched in the forest. Seated prisoners. German officers discuss strategy and review a map, possibly a captured one. German fortifications on a French beach. Germans pass downed Allied and British planes. Invasion stripes on an aircraft. German officers arrive to inspect the wrecked aircraft. Captured British and Canadian prisoners of war (POWs). Soldiers of The Nova Scotia Highlanders, The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion held prisoners. Wounded POW prisoners. A soldier with an eye patch. A German officer talks to the prisoners and checks their papers.
Allied forces bomb Caen, France during World War II. German soldiers use binoculars to spot USAAF aircraft in flight. German soldiers man artillery guns. American planes in flight overhead. Anti-aircraft guns fired from German fortifications. Allied aircraft in flight. An Allied aircraft is hit and descends to the ground. Burning aircraft wreckage in a field.
The bombed-out city of Caen, France during World War 2. Bomb damaged buildings. A winged angel statue atop a column seen amidst the damage. The statue holds what appear to be garlands in each hand. Wrecked trucks and vehicles amidst the ruins. French refugees evacuate the city. The men, women, and children refugees move with their belongings, run for cover under enemy fire. French men push a goods cart on a road. German soldiers leaving the city of Caen. German soldiers on motorcycles. A stationary rail car. German Wehrmacht Army soldiers in military vehicles and camouflaged tanks. Tanks move across a field. German officers in discussion. Panzer troops fire tank guns. Explosions on the battlefield. U.S. Army or Canadian prisoners or POWs marched with hands in air by Germans. German officers and soldiers inspect wrecked American and Canadian vehicles and tanks. A pierced tank. A shirt on ground with words "Canadian Armoured Corps". Several views closeup of wrecked Allied tanks.
German Schutzstaffel (SS) Hitler Youth advance near Bayeux in France during World War II. German soldiers advance supported by tanks. Soldiers on camouflaged tanks. German Panzer IV tanks and armored vehicles advance past immobilized Allied tanks. German tanks and infantry move pass abandoned Allied tanks and equipment. German troops fire small arms. Soldiers move towards and attack a French village. Street fighting in the village. Soldiers fire machine guns amidst ruins. Bomb damaged buildings. Smoke due to explosions.
A film titled 'Reward Unlimited' starring Dorothy McGuire dramatizes the need for cadet nurses during World War II. Dramatization depicts why a girl called Peggy decides to become a nurse, and how she is trained. Peggy discusses marriage and future plans with her Lieutenant boyfriend. She decides to get a war job. She meets a woman who was a nurse and who gives her information about the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, Congress scholarships for nursing schools and duration of the courses. Peggy discusses her decision to join a nursing school with her parent. After she convinces her parents that nurses are needed, she enters training. She undergoes theoretical and practical training with many other girls in a hospital. Nursing students in classroom setting with teacher or professor at blackboard providing class instruction. Nurses receiving practical clinical instruction. Nurses using microscopes and taking notes, nurses attending patients in a hospital ward. Nurse cadet taking care of an infant baby. Nurse in surgery theater handing instruments to a doctor during operation on a patient. The graduation ceremony from the Army Nursing School. Peggy checks on a little boy called Jimmy. A government message urging young girls to volunteer for military nursing service with information about the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.
The French 2nd Armored Division and British troops advance through Sées, France during World War II. Tanks pass wrecked military vehicles on the streets of Sées. Tanks and artillery advance. Soldiers on foot. A painted sign on the wall reads 'Falaise'. Troops drink cider being served by French civilians.
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