King George V of the United Kingdom on horseback reviews World War 1 troops in West Flanders province of Belgium. Canadian troops on foot and on horseback pass in review with arms and artillery. Brief view of Queen Mary (Mary of Teck; Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) seated in a car.
British soldiers move ammunition by train car along small gauge railroad constructed in a field in Flanders, during World War 1. Soldiers form a line and pass artillery shells from the train to boats waiting in a nearby canal.
United States 45th Infantry division soldiers on foot pass through the wrecked and burning town of Wingene, in West Flanders (Belgium) during World War II. Destroyed vehicles are seen on sidewalks. Bombed houses are still burning as soldiers pass through. Debris and various equipment lay scattered on the ground.
Houses burning after Wingene, Belgium is retaken by Allied forces during World War II. A house with its roof covered in flames. Soldiers driving on a Jeep pass by burning house. A United States helmet and helmet liner with shell hole. Wrecked and burning United States vehicles such as Jeeps, trucks in deserted streets. A doorway blocked by burning debris. Thick smoke covers the streets as houses burn. Remains of a bombed house with only its façade left. More burning homes in Wingene, on the Belgian province of West Flanders. Pillars of smoke rises in a battlefield outside Wingene.
Medics rescue a soldier from a tank in Wingene, Belgium during World War II. The injured soldier is placed on a stretcher. A burning house in Wingene, in the Belgian province of West Flanders. Flames erupt from windows of the house. Bodies of two dead United States soldiers lying on a snow-covered street.
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.
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