As film begins, elements of the U.S, ("Essex Troop") are seen passing under an overpass. The first is an M3 Half-track. Then several armored vehicles are seen from behind as they cross a pontoon bridge from Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry, to Seine Port, France, en route to Paris during World War 2. Soldiers, directing traffic across the bridge, stand beside it on grassy slope. Closeup of an M7 tank crossing the bridge. More views from the Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry side of the bridge as armored vehicles casually move across toward Seine Port. Front view of an M3 half-track heading toward the camera, crossing the bridge.
French cities and ports are shown in a campaign map of Northern France during World War II. Normandy peasants drive sheep and cows. German mechanized forces move forward to combat the Allied invasion. Allied planes bomb a French city. View of wrecked French city. French civilians dig through debris and remove the dead. Roads are filled with refugees. American prisoners of war are marched through Paris. French civilians kick and strike at some in the marching POW line.
A tank battle between United States and German tanks in France during World War II. Several U.S. Sherman tanks advance on a road. German Panther tanks advance on a nearly parallel road that eventually merges and tank battle ensues at the road junction. Wrecked early-war French and British tanks are seen. Mountains in the background. U. S. infantry move through woods behind Sherman flamethrower tank. Several German soldiers surrender to U.S. troops. Sherman tanks move through woods. A sherman dozer tank knocks down a tree. American Sherman tanks moving through a town or city as troops fan out.
United States 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division, in France during World War II. Soldiers of the 314th Infantry Regiment load onto assault boats at the bank of river Seine. Men row across the river in assault boats. The boats being manned by United States 304th Engineers Division.
United States 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division, in France during World War II. Soldiers of the infantry regiment cross river Seine in assault boats. The boats approach the bank. Men pull a rope as the boats come ashore. Major General Ira C. Wyche and Brigadier General Greer watch as the men cross the river. Soldiers march inland after crossing the river..
A convoy of Allied troop transport ships en route to a beachhead in France, during World War 2. The leading ship displays the number 321 on its bow. Allied troops play with a pet monkey on the deck of a ship. Colonel Kirke B Lawton smokes a cigar as he sits on the bridge of a British transport ship with British Naval officers. The waterfront is crowded with Allied vessels. Many barrage balloons fly overhead. Landing ships at the beachhead. Two U.S. landing craft are seen, numbered 512 and 72. Large Landing ships discharge their cargoes of trucks, tanks, and military vehicles of all sorts. An L-4 airplane being carried on a 2 and a half ton truck. U.S. and British tanks and troops moving inland.
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