Allied reinforcements arriving during invasion of Normandy in World War II. Scenes a day or two after D-Day. Beachmaster waves white flag. Landing Craft Utility number 385 is behind him and other Logistic and utility ships seen on beach in distance. Two U.S. soldiers stand at waters edge. A landing craft Vehicle (LCV Number 594)in water, close to beach, behind them, packed with U.S.troops. A bulldozer and a DUKW seen in front of the LCV. Troops wade ashore from the LCV.
10 days after D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allied forces during World War II. Trucks and military vehicles move on rough roads at Omaha Beach in France, transporting supplies unloaded at Easy Red Section of beach, to inland. A soldier sits outside the tents in a trench. Red Cross vehicles move. United States Army jeeps parked at the camp area.
10 days after D-Day. Allied Forces progressing with invasion of Europe through Normandy during World War II. Infantry troops march and military vehicles move inwards to Carentan, about 3 miles in land from Normandy and Omaha Beach. A native woman talks to soldiers in the town of Carentan. A wounded soldier laying on a U.S. Army jeep in the town square in front of the Carentan Church. Soldiers use girders and continue construction of a bridge at Carentan. (Note: This appears to be "Tucker Bridge" at Carentan. The bridge was so-named after Major John Tucker, commanding the 300th Combat Engineers, was hit by enemy fire and killed during the initial construction of the bridge. The bridge provided important access to Cherbourg, St. Lo, and Caen. It was replaced in 1996 by a stone and concrete structure but it remains the Major John Tucker Bridge.) Two soldiers stand on the bridge and talk to each other.
10 days after D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. U.S. Soldiers and military vehicles move on the streets of a town. Houses damaged by bombs and battle. A military plow clears scattered building material and debris while civilians watch. Camouflaged vehicles move on the countryside roads.
Injured Allied soldiers, medics and Red Cross ambulances at the 128th Evacuation Hospital in France, during World War II. Red Cross ambulances arrive at hospital tents. Soldiers carry injured soldiers inside a tent. Few soldiers with bandages tied on heads walk near the tents. Badly wounded soldiers brought inside, on a litter.
Brief views of patients and military personnel at the U.S. Army 128th Evacuation Hospital, bivouacked in tents near the front in France, during World War 2. Glimpse of wounded soldiers lying on ground inside a tent. A Medical Corpsman listens as one soldier speaks to him. The medic makes notes during the conversation. Light is obscured as the tent flap is closed. Glimpse from inside the tent, of some light from tent flap lifted slightly at opposite end. Two wounded soldiers lying on litters are seen in partial light. Break in filming ends with closeup of a sign reading: "Laboratory," posted on tent ropes. View of an officer and a Technical Sergeant seated at a table in that tent. The officer is working with injectable medications. The Sergeant is examining samples on slides, through a microscope. Closeup of the Sergeant looking through the instrument eyepiece.
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