Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. The barrel of an open 5 inch 38 caliber mount. A man in a foul weather gear on a lookout in the foreground. A man works on a blinker light. A transport ship underway in the background. A boat crew readies an LCM ( Landing Craft Mechanized ). Gears of a winch in operation. A U.S. Coat Guard Lieutenant in a blue uniform and a garrison cap with two men on the deck of the ship. An anchor chain comes up. A hawsepipe as a stream of water goes down and washes the chain. Coast Guardsmen on the deck of a transport ship as they get ready to lower a gangway. Coast Guardsmen make a splice in a line.
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. Interior of a troops compartment aboard a ship. Allied soldiers check rifles in the compartment. Two soldiers clean a water cooled 30 caliber browning machine gun. Two soldiers clean the firing mechanism of a machine gun placed on a tripod stand. A soldier cleans the barrel of a carbine. Men clean a machine gun.
German coastal defenses in Europe during World War 2. A map of Finland and Sweden. A map southward toward France and depiction of Atlantic Wall running Dutch, Belgium, and French coast facing the English Channel. Artillery and gun emplacements and fortifications along Atlantic Wall in Europe. A German soldier standing atop a fortification bunker looks through binoculars out across the English Channel. Forced laborers (slave labor) construct German coastal defenses at a beach. Concrete being mixed and poured and slave workers build the coastal defense reinforced concrete pillboxes. Massive guns and artillery being raised at the Atlantic Wall coastal defenses. The barrel of a large gun.
U.S. soldiers aboard a ship underway in the English Channel during World War II. A soldier smokes a cigarette. Soldiers sleep aboard a landing craft as they head towards Normandy, France. A soldier opens a ration can aboard the craft. Two soldiers look towards an invasion fleet in a harbor.
Aerial views of Italy and France during World War II. Aerial view of a battle scarred farmland. Flares dropped over the farmland. An American cemetery at Anzio. A battle scarred farmland, flares dropped. A British cemetery in Anzio, Italy. The sun's reflection over water. An aircraft flies over a battle scarred farmland and tank traps. Corsican coastline. A mountain ridge and a waterfall. Buildings in a town.
Aerial views of Italy and France during World War II. Aerial view of a town. A river and bomb craters on a field. A flooded farmland. Buildings on the flooded farmland. A road across a farmland and continues over flooded farmland. Clouds over a mountain.
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