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U.S. reinforcements coming ashore at Normandy after D-Day, during World War II

U.S. reinforcements seen arriving on beachhead at Normandy, the day after D-Day, during World War 2. A six-wheeled amphibious truck (DUKW), with U.S. troops aboard, moves across sand of Normandy beachhead. Soldiers and vehicles make their way across the sand. Landing Craft Utility, number 851 is beached. CTU 380 is painted on her side. A heavy mobile crane moves on the beach nearby. U.S. troops march ashore, past a large triangle sign posted in the sand. Various landing craft seen in background. Jeeps move along with the troops, including one in which a Colonel is seen standing.

Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037055
DUKWs, bulldozers and supply trucks on beachhead following the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II.

Events immediately post D-Day by Allied Forces during invasion of Normandy during World War II. Activities on section of Normandy beachhead the day after D-Day in World War 2. Trucks with troops and supplies move across the beach. Two small bulldozers, several DUKWs and other vehicles are seen. A Military Police sentry stands next to a stockpile of supplies on the beach.

Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037056
U.S. Army holds German prisoners of war on Normandy beachhead following D-Day in World War II

The day following the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War 2. German prisoners walk on wet sands of the beach, guarded by U.S. Army military police. Various Allied ships in background. German prisoners held temporarily between fences of barbed wire on the beach.

Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037057
Reinforcements arriving at Normandy beachhead during invasion of France in World War II.

Allied reinforcements arriving during invasion of Normandy in World War II. Scenes a day or two after D-Day. Beachmaster waves white flag. Landing Craft Utility number 385 is behind him and other Logistic and utility ships seen on beach in distance. Two U.S. soldiers stand at waters edge. A landing craft Vehicle (LCV Number 594)in water, close to beach, behind them, packed with U.S.troops. A bulldozer and a DUKW seen in front of the LCV. Troops wade ashore from the LCV.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037058
The Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II

Scenes filmed by Navy and Marine combat photographers, of the Battle for Iwo Jima, in February and March, 1944, during World War 2. View from a boat offshore, of Mount Suribachi, on the Island of Iwo Jima. Warships of the U.S. 5th Fleet attack with naval gunfire, as landing craft manuever near shore. U.S. Marines aboard Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs) head for the beach, with the heavy cruiser, USS Baltimore (CA-68) in the background. U.S. Carrier-based Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft drops bombs on Mount Suribachi. Landing craft arriving at a fairly level area of beach. U.S. marines moving cautiously on the beachhead. The USS Baltimore and a Fletcher class destroyer offshore in background. Marines hunkered down with smoke rising near them, and then moving forward again, through the black sands. Closeup of a marine with flame thrower. Several U.S. Chance Vought F4U Corsair aircraft fly overhead, dropping bombs on the mountain. Marines continue to move forward, under constant fire from Japanese small arms. A heavy landing craft Infantry, LCI(H) moves toward shore in background. A DUKW ("Duck") coming ashore. Marines using a crane to offload a 105mm howitzer from a landing craft. As they raise the gun, the landing craft moves away and marines Hook the howitzer to a DUKW to help move it. Next, marines are seen setting up two 105s on the beachhead and firing them. Marines with more artillery pieces stacked on the beachhead. A gunboat, LCI (G), firing from close to the shore behind them. Marines digging in sand that the narrator calls the floor of an active volcano. Smoking sulphur gases are seen rising behind them. The USS Baltimore firing her guns from close to shore. Machine gun tracer rounds crossing the beachhead, as Naval gunfire resumes from offshore. Marines crawling and then occasionally sprinting forward across the sand dunes. (One carries a stretcher.) Four marines carrying one wounded back to the beachhead, on a stretcher. Two marines carry another between them. Marines scrambling over brush and rough ground. View from hillside of marines climbing up from below, as shell bursts only a few yards away. Scene shifts to later in the battle for Iwo Jima. A catapillar tractor is parked near bodies of Japanese soldiers strewn across the landscape. (Narrator notes that more than 14 thousand such dead had been counted by March 6, 1944.) Finally, the iconic moving images of U.S. marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037791
Post-D-day invasion consolidating beachhead and logistical support of American troops in Normandy, France (WW2)

Formation of B-26 bombers overhead. Landing craft move toward shore. Normandy, France. Clutter of ships and vehicles. Barrage balloons overhead. Beach landing scene with United States Army Troops wading ashore past German obstacles on beach. Troops board landing barge. Wading ashore. Off-loading ammunition and supplies from truck. MPs direct traffic ashore. (World War II period)

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 3 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038037