A fleet of landing crafts and warships in the English Channel for the D-Day invasion of France during World War II. The fleet of landing crafts, merchant vessels and warships in the channel. U.S. soldiers and equipment on landing crafts. Warships fire at the French coast. U.S. soldiers climb down cargo nets from transports to LCMs ( Landing Craft Mechanized). Trucks are transferred from transports to LCMs.
A fleet of landing crafts and warships in the English Channel for the D-Day invasion of France during World War II. A swamped LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) sinks. The crew swims in the Channel. The crew is rescued. Landing crafts, merchant vessels and warships in the English Channel. A stalled DUKW is pulled ashore by a bulldozer.
British pilots fly over the West Wall to photograph enemy (Germans) forts and troop concentrations in Eastern France, early during British Expeditionary Force involvement in France, during World War 2. British fliers stand near aircraft of the Royal Air Force. They look at a map. British pilots get into aircraft. An obstacle in front of the wheel of an aircraft is removed. The aircraft takes off over the West Wall to photograph enemy (Germans) forts and troop concentrations. Trucks in a forest. Men work in a trench. A British personnel holding equipment in his hands smiles. Airfields are prepared: Trees are cut and a bulldozer passes along a road to level the land. The aircraft lands. The pilot goes into a tent. He looks at photographs. One British personnel inspects holes in a wall. British soldier carries a live goose away. A British soldier pushes a cart loaded with drums or barrels. A French woman stands outside a house and then quickly turns and runs back in the house. British military personnel read newspapers. They congregate at a bar and reach for bottles of alcohol on the bar.
German prisoners deny Britain's anti submarine campaign in a prison camp in England during World War II. Captured German undersea officers and crew walk in the prison camp. Barbed wire perimeter in the foreground. German prisoners deny Britain's anti submarine campaign.
Destroyers patrol the English Channel during World War II. Freighters at sea. Smoke rises from a chimney. "Dover Patrol", Britain's speedy squadron of sub chasers, stands guard. Mounted guns on a deck. Troop on the deck prepare to drive U boat crew away from freighters and troop ships. Freighters and destroyers at sea.
Lockheed Hudson bombers sink at a pier in Staten Island, New York during World War II. Two American built Lockheed Hudson light bombers loaded on barges await shipment to England for the Royal Air Force. The bombers are damaged as the barges spring a leak and sink.
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