U.S. troops and a U.S. Navy Admiral on a Normandy beachhead. U.S. troops, heavily laden with gear, including life preservers, seen on Normandy invasion beachhead several days after D-Day, during World War 2. A large number of German prisoners of war walk past the camera, under guard. View from further back of the prisoners walking along the beachhead. Barrage balloons aloft in background. A U.S. Lieutenant in foreground and several soldiers and a jeep nearby. A DUKW amphibious vehicle drives past the marching prisoners. U.S. soldiers remove their flotation gear and stack them into a pile on the beach. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Don Pardee Moon seated in a jeep. LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry) in the background. Admiral Moon talks with several U.S. officers. He then climbs aboard a Dodge WC 52 vehicle, in which others are already seated on benches in the back.
War materiel being unloaded from the freighter "Anglo-Mexican" at French port in Bordeaux, during World War 1. Railroad trains at the port. Derricks move the supplies, onto railroad flat cars at the port. They unload caissons and crates of artillery equipment.
Holts tractors being unloaded from the freighter "Anglo-Mexican" at port of Bordeaux, France, during World War 1. Crane unloading the tractors as port crews guide them onto railroad flat cars. A tractor pulling a rail car with two other tractors loaded on it. Tractors being driven and lined up at the ordnance yard. A railroad train carrying war materiel passing through the ordnance yard. Holts tractors being put through testing maneuvers at the yard.
German prisoners of war being rounded up by British Battle Police in no man's land during Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. Several of the German prisoners are wounded and need assistance from their comrades. German prisoners relaxing in a compound. They put on shoes and jackets as they prepare to be moved out of the compound.
United States 27th Division troops march past through village of Premont in France, during the Second Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. They march over muddy road dressed in rain gear, with tarpaulins protecting their horse-drawn caissons. American troops without helmets (wearing service caps) marching along road past bombed out ruins. Army truck and British soldier on a bicycle pass them going the opposite direction. Allied troops moving forward on a road, as several German prisoners of war march toward the rear, carrying stretchers with wounded, on their shoulders. British Mark V tank parked on hill, with Officers holding charts and conversing nearby. Horses pulling caissons and supplies to British battery of 18 pounders setting up in the field. British batteries firing, as more field artillery is seen being moved forward in the far distant background. Troops of American 27th Infantry wait in a trench as officers assess situation ahead. The signal is given and the troops advance out of the trench and across a field.
Various American equipment and weapons of World War I. Incendiary hand grenades used by Allies during World War I displayed in United States.
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