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Allied preparation and landing in Normandy on D-Day (WW2)

A film titled 'D-Day' shows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his aides planning the Normandy invasion by looking at a map of Europe. Animated map showing Northern Europe. Slave labor building "West Wall" defense system, according to narrator, but scenes appear to show coastal gun emplacements and defenses more consistent with the Atlantic Wall. Hitler and Nazi German officials. Construction sites as defenses are built by slave workers. German coastal defense in Western Europe showing Howitzers, fortifications, and Nazi German guards. Allied tanks, guns, locomotives and other military equipment is massed on beaches in the United Kingdom before D-Day. Fighter planes in airfield. Men unload supplies and war materiel from the United States. Allied locomotives, brake cars, tank cars, and an armada of Naval ships and landing crafts for D-Day. Assault boats and invasion barges are launched from ships in England. A man smokes a pipe. Barrage balloons flying over ships. Troops, transport, artillery, and materiel are loaded into ships bound for Normandy. A fleet of ships move across the English Channel. United States paratroopers land in Normandy. Firing and bombardment between the Allied forces and Nazi Germany. Bomb explodes off the coast of Normandy. Soldiers in landing craft on the way to Normandy. First landings in Normandy on D-Day during World War II. Soldiers rush to the beachhead, climb cliffs, and put out fires. A soldier rolls in the ground. Soldiers disembark from landing crafts and ships. Barrage balloons over the Normandy beachhead.

Date: 1944
Duration: 9 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038157
German coastal defenses against Allied invasion of Normandy and the battle of Villars Bocage, France, in World War II

A brief promotional scene of large columns of German Army soldiers, in class A uniforms, marching 9-abreast with shouldered rifles. A map of the English Channel with key cities shown along the French Coast. View from shore, of Allied invasion forces off the coast of Normandy, in World War 2. German soldier runs to an Atlantic Wall coastal defense gun, which then fires toward the invasion fleet. View of obstacles placed in surf at the beach. German coastal guns fire at Allied beachhead and ships offshore. Allied ship burning. German gunner seen inside the gun emplacement. Large explosion in water near shore. Destroyed invasion force equipment on the beach. abandoned Allied landing craft with numerous Army vehicles on board. Complete new sequence showing aftermath of the battle of Villers-Bocage, France. Destroyed Allied military equipment lines a road there, including many British Morris army trucks. One destroyed armored vehicle bears insignia of U.S. 2nd Armored Division, with names Betty, Joyce, and Sadie written on it. A German soldier walks past an American M3 halftrack with its right wheel jacked up and jerry cans stored on its side. A line of knocked out British armored trucks. An Allied soldier's shoe and flattened steel helmet. Sign at roadside reads: Villars, Bocage. Knocked out M3 Stuart light tank. Destroyed British Cromwell tanks on streets of the town of Villers-Bocage A British helmet on the ground in midst of debris near destroyed tank treads.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056324
German coastal guns at English Channel. Bomb damage in German town. Germany Navy in Norway. World War II

German Kriegsmarine Grand Admiral Erich Raeder inspects coastal artillery units along the English Channel during World War 2. He arrives and is greeted by German Naval officers. They study maps on a table. He inspects the guns. A coastal gun raises its barrel, while under a camouglage net. Scene shifts to residents of a German town that had been struck by British RAF bombers. Local residents work to clear up the rubble. Views of bomb-damaged homes, with entire front walls missing. View of damaged kitchen in an apartment. Teams of men working to clear rubble. German children fill a town square to watch the demolition of an unsafe structure. Sign with skull and crossbones next to an unexploded bomb, warning that it is a dud and life threatening. German workers pouring concrete for an airfield. Scene shifts to Kriegsmarine activity in Norway. View of a fjord, and then to many German float planes in a bay near a city. German warships come under attack by British warplanes. German ships antiaircraft guns are brought to bear. German Focke Wulf FW-190 aircraft scrambled to engage the British. Views from German aircraft in flight over the area. Snow covered mountains. View from German ships in the North Atlantic. The German battleship, Gneisenau, underway. Formation of German warships underway. Two German U-boats moving on the surface. A motor torpedo boat. German Stuka, Junkers JU-87 dive bombers, in formation flight. Motor torpedo boat dropping depth charge.

Date: 1941
Duration: 5 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021852
People in the English colonies led by George Washington moving against the English Army during the American Revolutionary War.

The history of the United States. A pictorial map shows the path followed by Christopher Columbus in 1492 across the Atlantic Ocean. He found a group of islands where other explorers from Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, England, Italy and France found two continents. The representation of the area in the northern continent over which the English and the French fought and the French were defeated. The French gave up their colonies and in 1763 they belonged to England. People in the English colonies at work. English officials during a meet. The workers rebelling against English troops. Farmers, who became soldiers, moving with guns. The army led by George Washington moving against the English Army. The thirteen colonies of the English became independent, during the American Revolution, leading to the birth of American nation.

Date: 1953
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066549
A gun battery aboard a ship fires and shells hit the French coast along the English Channel.

Naval activities in the English Channel during World War II. The English channel near the French coast. Shells hit the French coast. Smoke rises from the coast. A gun battery aboard a ship fires.

Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067157
U.S. soldiers board troop transport underway in English Channel a day before D-Day landings of World War II.

U.S. troop transport underway in English Channel shortly before D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. U.S. soldiers board troop transport in English Channel by climbing landing nets.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074619