Construction of an airstrip in France during World War II. Three sappers walk on a grassy area. They look for buried mines. The sappers dig out mines from the ground. Surveyors at work on the field. Two surveyors show equipment. Two engineers signal to the two surveyors. An engineer at transit signaling. A bulldozer pushes a huge pile of dirt on the field. Two guards and a group in the background. A scraper on the field. A soldier sitting at the back door of a vehicle talks with another standing beside him. The bulldozer and heavy equipment on the airstrip. The bulldozer and the scraper turn and go down the field. Insignia of the United States. Different views of the equipment on the field. An aircraft is towed and is taken to the airstrip.
D-Day Invasion of St. Marcouf, France during World War II. The burial of a dead German soldier. Paratroopers of U.S. 101st Airborne Division advance across a grassy field. Soldiers of the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division file past the paratroopers. A German tracked motorcycle parked on pavement, surrounded by 101st Airborne Paratroopers, some of whom stand in a group and hold a captured Nazi flag.
During the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Landing crafts approach the French shoreline. The crafts underway off the coast of Normandy. A rocket is fired from a naval vessel offshore. Water splashes due to a fire. A landing craft and an invasion fleet move towards the beach. U.S. troops in the landing craft.
During D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. U.S. troops land on a beach. They carry a wounded on a litter. The soldiers of 3rd Battalion land on a very small parallel beach. They are trapped against a chalk embankment on which were Nazi German machines and guns. The soldiers dig foxholes on the open beach. The soldiers are seated in a group on the beach. Landing crafts near the shore. U.S. soldiers in a landing craft. A group of soldiers advance across the beachhead. Two of them are hit by enemy fire and fall. A U.S. medic gives first aid to the wounded.
Allied troops during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France in World War II. A United States Army medic gives first aid to wounded soldiers. Three Nazi German prisoners are captured by U.S. 3rd Battalion and U.S. 16th Regiment troops. Blood plasma given to the wounded. Soldiers huddle together on a small beach. The three Nazi prisoners are seated separately. The soldiers dig a foxhole in the foreground. One soldier in the foxhole in the background. The soldiers prepare dynamite fuses.
U.S. troops at Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan after World War II. A Landing Ship Medium (LSM) approaches Yokosuka Naval Base. A number on the ship reads '210'. The bow doors of the LSM open. U.S. troops disembark from the ship. Troops on a beach. The troops stand on a ramp and unload vehicles. Trucks and ambulances roll down the ramp into shallow water and on a concrete strip. Insignia of the United States on the trucks and the ambulances.
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