Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. A patrol craft passes in the English Channel. A DUKW (amphibious truck) at sea. A Coast Guard officer wearing a foul weather jacket and a blue hat looks through binoculars. The officer smokes a cigar. The bow of a Landing Craft Infantry underway at sea. A U.S. Coast Guard officer takes a bearing with a magnetic compass. Two soldiers on a 20 mm gun mount as one of them wears goggles. An aircraft flies overhead. Two U.S. Navy TBM Mariner aircraft pass overhead. Church services being conducted aboard a ship. A man plays an organ as an officer conducts the service. A congregation of coast guard men and sailors at the church services.
Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. A navy band plays various musical instruments on the deck of a ship underway in the English Channel. Sailors listen to the music. The sailors play saxophone and other instruments. A sailor sings into a microphone. A bass fiddle player at the microphone and the rest of the band in the background.
Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. A Landing Craft Tank underway from Portland Harbor. Portland breakwater in the background and ships anchored behind the breakwater. Four LCTs underway. An LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) hung out over the side of a transport ship. An LCT passes in the background. Normandy task force underway at sea. Two LCTs with barrage balloons aboard them. Ships at anchor in Weymouth bay. An LST (Landing Ship Tank) underway at sea. A transport ship sends a blinker signal to another ship in the background.
Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Normandy task force including landing crafts underway in the English Channel. An LCT(Landing Craft Tank), an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) and an LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) underway in rough seas. The LCI dead at water and three LCTs underway in the background. Soldiers attach a block to a LCVP. An LCVP alongside a transport ship as it tries to back over it. The LCVP fails to back over the transport ship and moves away. A hook being secured to boat falls of the LCVP. The boat falls hooked onto the LCVP and the LCVP being hoisted away. A man climbs a Jacob's ladder onto a boat boom with an LCVP below. A boat crew climbs a Jacob's ladder. An LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized) alongside a transport ship.
U.S. Army 9th Machine Gun Battalion in Chateau Thierry, France, during World War I. Ruins of destroyed buildings on the street. Smoke due to mortar shelling. 9th Machine Gun Battalion march with rifles on their shoulders. World War 1 (WWI).
United States 6th Engineer Battalion in Chateau Thierry, France during World War I.. The 6th Engineer Battalion receives hot chocolate from the Young Men Christian Association (Y.M.C.A) before entering St. Eugene. A cart in the background. A woman pours chocolate in the mugs of the troops. The troops with rifles on their shoulders. A man puts the hot chocolate in a container which is kept on the cart. The troops move in a foxhole carrying rifles and mugs in their hands.
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