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American troops practice loading and handling of vehicles aboard concrete landing craft in France during World War II.

American troops practice in the military training area at Braunton Burrows North Devon, England, in preparation for the D-Day landings in Normandy, during World War 2. They practice handling and loading of 105mm Howitzers, trucks and vehicles aboard concrete landing craft mock ups Vehicles being unloaded from one of the mock ups.

Location: England United Kingdom
Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038194
American troops practice going aboard LCVP in France during World War 2

American troops practice going aboard LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) at a beach in France during World War II. Soldiers board the LCVP and leave the beach. LCVP returns back to the coast after going over a short distance in the bay.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038195
Allied D-Day preparations and invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2

General Dwight D Eisenhower, General Spaatz and Air Marshal Mallory discuss the plan for invading Normandy, France during World War II. Supplies are massed in England for the invasion. British soldiers and U.S. Army soldiers preparing for invasion and boarding ships for the voyage across the English Channel. Some British troops carry bicycles on board. U.S. soldiers marching toward landing craft and boarding landing craft. United States bomber aircraft fly and bombard coastal defenses in France. Aerial camera view from inside allied aircraft as it flies low over German Atlantic Wall defenses and fires rockets at the coastal defenses. Aerial view of beaches of Normandy in the days soon after the D-Day invasion of France. Allied troops landing and bringing supplies ashore. Groups of German soldier prisoners of war lined up under Allied guard. General Montgomery visits Normandy, arriving and jumping down to the beach from a DUKW amphibious vehicle. People in England receive news about the invasion through newspapers. British citizens holding the Evening Standard newspaper with headline reading "The Invasion of Europe Begins." British civilians buying newspapers and reading the news. A busy street in England and a queue of people buying newspapers at a newsstand. View of Allied aircraft flying in formation and closeup views of faces of British civilians looking up at the sky.

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038197
Fieldmarshall von Rundstedt and Field Marshall Rommel on an observation tour of Atlantic Wall in France during World War 2

German Fieldmarshall Gerd von Rundstedt and Field Marshal Rommel in a room in France. Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his staff on an observation tour of Atlantic Wall fortifications in France during World War II. Tank obstacles, gun emplacements, bunkers, fortifications, command posts, and artillery gun emplacements are seen. Rommel and von Rundstedt tour the facilities. German soldiers perform readiness drills, moving defensive obstacles into place, running to stations to prepare for battle, and moving wheeled artillery into place.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675038198
Field Marshals Gerd Von Rundstedt and Erwin Rommel inspecting Atlantic Wall fortifications and railroad gun during World War 2

Scenes from a tour by Gerd Von Rundstedt and Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his staff of Atlantic Wall in France during World War II. German heavy railroad gun Krupp K5 (Leopold) is wheeled out from a covered fortification. Various views of the German officers touring heavy gun emplacements, fortifications, and command centers of the Atlantic Wall forts. Group of officers walks by turnstile of heavy railway gun. Heavy artillery guns including barrel of a 12 inch gun elevated and pointed toward the sea. Many views of German heavy gun barrels being raised.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675038199
Germany's heaviest guns of World War II

Views of heavy and heaviest German railway siege guns of World War 2. A Krupp K5E 283 mm Leopold railroad gun moving along a railroad track. It hooks up with supporting rail cars. Soldiers ride in an open car carrying shells for the gun. Soldiers moving powder bags for the gun. Glimpse of German troops carrying shells from a trench (probably for a 12.8 cm FlaK 40 anti-aircraft gun). Next,German soldiers are seen pushing a shell for a 38 cm Siegfried K (E) (K - Kanone, on a rail dolly, and them moving it by means of a mechanical arm, up to the breech of the gun where gunners load it. Several views of shells being loaded into German railway guns, including the 80cm Dora, or Schwerer Gustav. Views of heavy German gun barrels being raised, including 406mm (16 inch) SK C34 Coastal Defense guns. The Thor 60cm mortar being raised for firing. More railway guns.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675038200
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