U.S. troops in a beach area for the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. A trooper stands in the foreground. Barrage balloons in the sky. A bulldozer tows vehicles from an LCT.
U.S. troops and a U.S. Navy Admiral on a Normandy beachhead. U.S. troops, heavily laden with gear, including life preservers, seen on Normandy invasion beachhead several days after D-Day, during World War 2. A large number of German prisoners of war walk past the camera, under guard. View from further back of the prisoners walking along the beachhead. Barrage balloons aloft in background. A U.S. Lieutenant in foreground and several soldiers and a jeep nearby. A DUKW amphibious vehicle drives past the marching prisoners. U.S. soldiers remove their flotation gear and stack them into a pile on the beach. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Don Pardee Moon seated in a jeep. LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry) in the background. Admiral Moon talks with several U.S. officers. He then climbs aboard a Dodge WC 52 vehicle, in which others are already seated on benches in the back.
U.S. troops in a beach area for the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. A wounded man drinks water aboard a landing craft with many wounded men lying in the background. DUKWs (six-wheel-drive amphibious truck) loaded with U.S. troops on the beach. A rhino barge loaded with trucks and vehicles passes. Old ships sunk in water act as breakwater.
General and Mrs Eisenhower meet other officials in Paris. He sends his request to be relieved of his post as the Commander-in-Chief of Western Europe's armies. He addresses the officials and talks about the GOP convention.
Panning views of the damaged Fort Conde (East of Soissons, on Aisne) after its capture by French forces on April 17, 1917, in World War 1. Several British officers walk into the abandoned fort. Two dead horses are seen amid debris.
Views from ships in the Normandy invasion convoy of World War 2. American flag above a ship and barrage balloon aloft. The British naval ensign on another ship. U.S. Motor torpedo boat USS PT-541 signalling by lights. Blinker light signals by Allied ship. Allied naval warships bombarding the French coast. Troops of 2nd assault wave climb down rope nets from transport ships. Allied fighter planes strafing German flak towers, german airplanes, and railroad trains. Allied troops leaving their transport ships in landing craft. Landing Craft Tank (Rocket),aka LCT(R) firing barrages of rockets. Allied B-26 and B-24 bombers attacking ground targets. Allied troops being hampered by obstacles and some falling to German gunfire as they hit the beaches of Normandy. Survivors of sunk and damaged landing craft being helped ashore. British landing craft firing at beach houses. U.S. troops pinned under shore cliffs at Omaha Beach. Soldiers giving blood plasma to wounded. British troops leaving landing craft. Allied troops on beachhead and moving inland. U.S. troops wading ashore. Troops wading ashore from LCI(L)-537. An American M4 Sherman wading tank (with intake and exhaust funnels) and equipped with dozer blade, labeled: DT-7.
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