Opening scene shows a motor launch being lowered from the transport ship, USS Bayfield (APA-33). View of a Coast Guard Crewman with many U.S. soldiers on deck behind him. Next, the troops are seen descending a landing net over the side of the ship, into Higgins boat landing craft. Waves cause the net to sway out over the water with several soldiers on it. Silhoutttes of landing craft underway in the water with sun rising through haze in background. Landing craft heading toward a beach, and then troops charging ashore over the beach. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
Interior of the River Don Works steelplant and forge shop at Sheffield (later Sheffield Forgemasters). Exteriors of steel mill shows stacks emitting smoke. In the mill, molten steel poured. Men at furnace. Steel block is heated and shaped. Men fuel the giant furnaces, standing at some distance due to the heat.
U.S. sailor gives a soldier a haircut on deck near 40mm mount. Other soldiers chat and smile. (World War II period).
U.S. troops boarding a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) the day before D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allies during World War 2. Several white sailor hats are drying on a clothes line on deck. Soldiers in full field packs crowd the deck.
American soldiers relaxing aboard deck of a Landing Craft Infantry on June 5th, the day before D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War 2. A group of soldiers is amused as one of them looks through a pair of binoculars. Eventually, the subject of his interest is seen to be an English woman standing in the doorway of her ground floor flat, looking at the soldiers through her own binoculars. The soldiers try to attract her attention by waving. Laundry seen drying on a line near the woman.
The day before D-Day invasion of Normandy by Allies during World War 2. A Coast Guard Lieutenant briefs Coast Guard crewmen and several officers and soldiers, on deck of a Landing Craft Infantry that will be taking part in the cross-channel invasion of France.
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