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)
U.S. troops descending from a pier, in England to board an LCI (L)- landing craft infantry, Large, during World War 2. Other LCIs are docked along the pier, including LCI -21. Ships and landing craft maneuver off shore from Slapton Sands, Devon, England, where U.S amphibious forces practice for the invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Closeup of troops underway in a Higgins boat landing craft. View from camera ship's deck, of a Transport ship, nearby and of several LCI(L)s in the distance. Closeup of U.S. Landing Craft Tank, LCT(5)-305, passing the camera ship. USS LST-30 and another ship are seen nearby. USS LST-310 is seen with a long floating dock in front of it. Next, the floating dock is turned sideways to her front hatch and soldiers are seen clearly on the dock. U.S. Landing Ship Tank - LCT(5)-305, passes behind. Next, the floating dock is seen moving away from LST-30. A ship, armed with guns, that appears to be numbered US 12F6. Closeup of LCI(L)-87 with Coast Guard Commander Miles Hopkins Imlay, seen on her bridge. (She is the flagship of his command, Flotilla 10.) View from ship beached on Slapton Sands, of Markers set up on the beach and Sign reading: "B." View from ship looking down on the sand where several officers are discussing the exercise. A truck driving out of beached landing ship.
"Somewhere" in England during World War 2. Personnel of United States Coast Guard troop transports and landing craft on their way to a Church for Sunday services. The church sits on a street in the middle of a town in England. View from rear as members of the U.S.Coast Guard march in formation toward the church. View from entrance of the church as they march through its iron gateway and along a path to its entrance. View from inside the church as an officer leads the Guardsmen up steps into a hall. They turn to their right to enter the church sanctuary.
Men in a U.S. city, stand around near bulletin boards posting the latest war news during World War 2. A bridge behind them has wording on it reading: "The Information and War Activities Center." Closeup of a civilian and a U.S. Navy sailor reading Invasion News dispatches posted on the board. Closeups of the dispatches (out of focus). Closeup from behind of many men stopping to read the latest postings. Closeup of "flash" dispatches (out of focus).
Testing of an aircraft rescue operation in the United States. Several airmen on an airfield during an experiment of an aircraft rescue operation for stranded airmen. A U.S. Army aircraft airlifts a sack from an airfield while in flight. A sheep being harnessed by a few men for a live test. The tied up sheep on the ground beside a small fence on the airfield. The U.S. Army aircraft in a low flight airlifts the sheep and flies away. The aircraft parked on the airfield with its door open. A few men take the safe sheep out from the aircraft and untie the ropes around it. A few men tying a pilot for a human rescue experiment. The man placed on the airfield beside a small fence. The aircraft in low flight airlifts the man. The aircraft in flight with the man hanging in a sling. The man is pulled into the aircraft. The aircraft lands on the airfield and the rescued man gets off the aircraft.
U.S. 7th Army and French troops recapture French cities during World War 2. French troops parade in Metz. The troops march in formation through the city streets. U.S. Army Major General Walton H. Walker, who led the U.S. Army and the FFI (French Forces of the Interior) in the capture of the city from the Germans. General Walker with other officers walks out of a building. French soldiers stand in a formation during a ceremony in which the city is to be returned to the French. In the official ceremony, General Walker returns the city to French Lieutenant-General Andre-Marie-François Dody, acting for his country.The crowd cheers. The Generals walk away. Scene shifts to Strasbourg, where Provost Marshal McIntyre, of the U.S. 7th Army, accepts the surrender of Two German Battalions (5 thousand troops) from their commanding General. The surrendered German soldiers are lined up in the street. German officers waiting to get into trucks. In another sequence, a sign on a street in Belfort reads 'N.463 Montbeliard'. French 1st Army troops on tanks advance through the streets in Belfort. A sign showing the direction to Belfort Castle. French troops fire at the castle in Belfort. Soldiers behind a wall and an M-3 Stuart tank and an anti-tank gun fire from behind the Theatre Granit building at the Belfort Castle. Explosions occur at places in the castle. An underground tunnel of the Belfort Castle is inspected by a French General. Several officers walking with the General. The French flag hoisted on the castle. U.S.Major General Walker proceeding with officers over a bridge. The officers on a path on a hill. Aerial view of buildings.
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