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Arrival of General Dwight Eisenhower at third United States army headquarters in Etain.

Two sedans enter the Third United States Army Headquarters gate. General Eisenhower steps from the second car and is greeted by Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley,and Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr. Together, the three generals and a Major General, salute the flag and honor guard. Escorted by an Army Captain, General Eisenhower inspects honor guard of Military Police, third United States Army. Eisenhower and Patton, together, check time on their respective wrist watches.

Date: 1944, September 29
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038853
U.S. 26th "Yankee" Infantry Division celebrates Thanksgiving, 1944, during World War II.

Thanksgiving 1944 in Northeastern France, with the U.S. 26th Infantry Division, during World War 2. Several U.S. Army women nurses walk through muddy snow covered field in Northeastern France, during World War II. One of them pulls a small sled. At the same time,US troops march along sides of a nearby road. A U.S. soldier is issued a winter coat by a quartermaster.Other soldiers putting on new overcoats. U.S. troops in overcoats march along a wet road. A soldier holds up a sign reading," 26 'Yankee' Infantry Division, HAPPY- THANKSGIVING !, Europe 1944." The troops huddle over field cook stoves in a field. They smoke cigarettes. Large group of U.S. soldiers in a chow line near a cemetery in a French town (probably Dieuze, which they captured on November 20th). They receive a Thanksgiving dinner. Soldiers playing football on a snow covered field.

Date: 1944, November 23
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024443
American soldiers of the 314th Infantry regiment, 79th Infantry Division, entering town as people cheer in Mamers, France; German prisoners in Argentan, France

U.S. Army soldiers of the 314th Infantry regiment, 79th Infantry Division, entering town as people cheer in Mamers, France on August 12, 1944 during liberation of France in World War 2. Next scene shifts to Argentan France on August 13, 1944, and shows German prisoners of war marching through the streets and assembling in courtyard at a monastery in Argentan. View of some Mongolians in a courtyard who were Russians pressed into service by the Germans. General George S Patton talking to Major General Lunceford E Oliver, CG of the 5th Armored Division. General Patton leaves in a jeep.

Date: 1944, August 12
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034887
German soldiers defend the coastline as Allies invade northern France on D-Day in World War 2.

German propaganda newsreel depicting German perspective defending against Allied Invasion of northern France on D-Day (June 6, 1944). German citizens at newsstand reading newspaper headlines announcing the Allied invasion of France. A map of northern France. Scenes from June 6, 1944 as Allied bombers attack the French coast during D-Day operations. German sailors on ships monitoring incoming Allied invasion. German Navy sailors and German soldier radio operators communicate, listening with headphones and operating morse code transmitters and radios as the Germans sound the alarm. German soldiers take their positions at coastal fortifications of the Atlantic Wall. They pile up shells and use search lights. German coastal guns and submarines fire at the Allied fleet in the English Channel. Night fighting. Artillery and ship guns fired. Explosions as Allied crafts are hit. Soldiers fire machine guns as the enemy approaches the coast. German officers and soldiers in German pillboxes. German submarine fires torpedo and an Allied ship explodes far in the distance. A German officer looks through binoculars to survey the damage.

Date: 1944, July
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021806
Allied soldiers prepare for D-Day invasion, and then land in France (WW2)

Allied campaign against Nazi Germany in 1944 during World War II. Tanks, artillery and supplies piled up in England for invasion of Europe. Allied soldiers from various Allied nations like Britain, America, New Zealand and South Africa gathered at docks. The soldiers loaded onto transport ships. Soldiers get into landing crafts. Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight D. Eisenhower at a map in Headquarters as he plans the invasion of France. The Allied invasion fleet underway in the English Channel to invade France. A map shows the location of Caen, France. Allied aircraft in flight and view at aircraft door as line of paratroopers jump. Massive group of parachutes in the sky as paratroopers descend. Explosions occur at a coast. Landing crafts beached and soldiers come ashore amidst heavy firing. Rockets and artillery being fired. Vehicles on the beach. A truck burns. A map depicts the area under Nazi German occupation before World War II and the recapture of those areas by Allied armies in 1944.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065884
The Allied invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II

June 6, 1944, Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. Naval bombardment from Allied battleships and other warships. Troops descend rope nets from transports into landing craft. U.S. Coast Guard operated Attack Transport ship, USS Bayfield (APA-33)is flagship at Utah beach. LCVPs speed toward the beach. Troops wade out of landing craft under fire. Some are hit and fall in water. August 15, 1944, last wave of invasion in the South of France, rockets firing from assault ships. Troops arriving on the beach. Jeep drives off landing craft.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041747