Aerial views, from light observation plane, of destroyed and damaged houses and buildings in town of Mortain, France, from bombardment by U.S. Army 155mm long tom guns, during World War 2.
Camouflaged 155 millimeter Long Tom rifles firing. United States Army soldiers take fuses from a case and screw them onto nose shells. Distant view of a burning ammunition dump. Gun crew loads and fires Long Tom rifle. (World War II period).
United States Army Generals walking and talking with other British Officers at beachhead. View of many United States Army soldiers at beachhead. General George C. Marshall and General Dwight Eisenhower can be seen in a car. General Eisenhower talks with British Officers. Eisenhower and Marshall talk to an Army officer as General Omar N. Bradley, with a small bandage on his nose, stands in background. Admiral Ernest J. King with the officers. Close-up of General Henry Arnold (Hap Arnold) standing, smiling, and talking with the officers assembled. (World War II period).
General Sir Alan Brooke, Prime Minister of UK, Winston Leonard S Churchill and General Jan Smuts on a ship sailing towards a beachhead in France. Views of Generals talking.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General L. Montgomery in a car. Churchill is greeted by other Generals at beachhead. General Jan Smuts and General Sir Alan Brooke can be seen with him. View of many United States Army soldiers and British officers. Churchill and other British officers walk toward dock. Churchill and British officers on boat leaving the place. (World War II period).
German forces moving to defend against the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War 2. German troops run past a disabled American Sherman tank as they take cover from attacks by British fighter bombers. Several German Stug III tank destroyers make their way along a dirt road. They are covered in natural foliage as camouflage. A German infantryman with rifle in a trench, looks up as Allied aircraft attack. German artillerymen firing Flak 18 (88mm) antiaircraft guns at the British planes. Another German gunner, seated and firing a 20mm Flak 30 light antiaircraft gun. British Hawker Typhoon IB fighter bombers dropping bombs from low altitude and strafing. Smoke rising from bomb bursts. Germans firing a Flak 36 (88mm) antiaircraft gun. View of Hawker Typhoon flying close overhead with rockets and gun barrels protruding from wings. An airplane with slight smoke trail. Another close low altitude pass by a Hawker Typhoon aircraft. German gunner seated at his antiaircraft gun. Half a dozen British aircraft making bombing runs. British Typhoon aircraft in D-day stripes, flying past, low and climbing. German gun crew firing as bombs continue to burst. A British airplane is hit and burning. Closeup of some burning unrecognizable aircraft wreckage in a grassy field. German gunners, carrying small arms, jump over their emplacement wall and run to a British Typhoon aircraft in D-Day stripes, that has crash landed not far away, near the shore. Four armed German soldiers search around the downed aircraft. The German antiaircraft gun crew paint another white ring on their gun barrel, to credit a plane shot down.
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