World War 2, in Europe. Military Police on military motorcycles and United States Army Generals in staff car. General Dwight Eisenhower, General Omar N Bradley, General Cortney Hodges, General William H. Simpson, Generals Collins, McLain, Parker, and Oliver with other officers posing. General Eisenhower, General Bradley and Lieutenant General William H. Simpson come out of building. A different scene, on a street in a village. Driver of a staff car has trouble starting the engine. So the Generals push the car to get it started and then get in and it drives away.
German forces moving to defend against the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War 2. German troops run past a disabled American Sherman tank as they take cover from attacks by British fighter bombers. Several German Stug III tank destroyers make their way along a dirt road. They are covered in natural foliage as camouflage. A German infantryman with rifle in a trench, looks up as Allied aircraft attack. German artillerymen firing Flak 18 (88mm) antiaircraft guns at the British planes. Another German gunner, seated and firing a 20mm Flak 30 light antiaircraft gun. British Hawker Typhoon IB fighter bombers dropping bombs from low altitude and strafing. Smoke rising from bomb bursts. Germans firing a Flak 36 (88mm) antiaircraft gun. View of Hawker Typhoon flying close overhead with rockets and gun barrels protruding from wings. An airplane with slight smoke trail. Another close low altitude pass by a Hawker Typhoon aircraft. German gunner seated at his antiaircraft gun. Half a dozen British aircraft making bombing runs. British Typhoon aircraft in D-day stripes, flying past, low and climbing. German gun crew firing as bombs continue to burst. A British airplane is hit and burning. Closeup of some burning unrecognizable aircraft wreckage in a grassy field. German gunners, carrying small arms, jump over their emplacement wall and run to a British Typhoon aircraft in D-Day stripes, that has crash landed not far away, near the shore. Four armed German soldiers search around the downed aircraft. The German antiaircraft gun crew paint another white ring on their gun barrel, to credit a plane shot down.
Elements of the German 21st Panzer Division in action against Allies in Normandy, during World War 2. German Panzer III tanks moving along dirt road. Marder I anti-tank gun moving up. A German officer with binoculars, standing on Panzer V Panther tank, in established position, with shielding and fabric covering and foliage camouflage. The tank firing its 75L70 mm gun. Tank crewman throwing spent shell out rear hatch of the tank. A burning Kangaroo armored personnel carrier with Black Bull insignia and number 54, of the British 11th Armoured Division, 8th Rifle Brigade. German machine gunner firing. A battery of German nebelwerfer rocket launchers firing. Burning vehicles. Machine gun firing from atop a German tank, tracers visible. Sdkfz 251/1 Stuka Zu Fuss, Rocket launcher firing. Explosions and fire.
General Bernard Law Montgomery with British and American correspondents in Normandy. General Montgomery discusses news on World War II with correspondents. One man in the group wears a French officer's cap. Two U.S. 9th Air Force soldiers ride horses bareback on highway. U.S. military Jeeps can be seen passing.
A United States Army ambulance backs up to stop in France during World War II. A litter is handed into tent. A casualty is carried out and put into ambulance. The ambulance drives off.
Views of battle between German Panzer Units and Allied Forces south of Caen, France, during World War 2. SS troop soldier looks through binocular from trenches. Explosions raise huge clouds of smoke. Close up view of SS tank ace Michael Wittmann and loader on a German Tiger tank of s.SS.Pz.Abt.101. (Wittmann wears Knights Cross and Swords military decoration.) German SS grenadiers in position. German tanks firing. Multiple views of wrecked British tanks, including one on its side. An abandoned British soldier helmet and gas mask on the ground. German artillery is fired. German soldier prone firing MG 34 machine gun equipped with TM 34 75-round double-drum magazine. German soldiers fighting in streets of town. Heavily bombed buildings of a French town south of Caen. German soldiers moving building to building. German soldiers firing flamethrower.
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