Allied invasion of Europe during World War 2. Opening scene shows sailors preparing to launch a landing craft. Skies are dark above and some barrage balloons are aloft. A Landing Craft Tank (LCT), filled with soldiers, slowly approaches a secure beachhead where U.S. Army trucks are driving along the beach. Next, the LCT has beached and lowered its front ramp. It is still some way from the beach. Soldiers ride jeeps down the ramp and through the water toward the shore. Some soldiers are seen dug in on the beach. Others march informally along the beach. Jeeps and trucks drive along the beach. Dark black smoke rises in the background An M4 Sherman of the 70th Tank Battalion, fitted with a bulldozer blade, moves past a fallen (dead) soldier partially covered with a tarp, lying on the sand. Small clusters of soldiers are setting up positions in the sand. Medics carry two stretchers towards a landing craft as they wade through the surf. Soldiers wade ashore from a stranded LCT.
Allied troops during the invasion of Southern France during World War II. Allied soldiers clear German mines in France, using metal detectors to find mines. Closeup of two shoebox mines. American M4 amphibian Sherman tank with Duplex Drive beside the minefield. Soldiers sit on the beach with incomplete German pill boxes in the background. Soldiers carry ammunition and artillery shells. Two and a half ton DUKW amphibious vehicles haul 105 mm howitzer ashore as it moves past a wrecked railroad line.
Slate notes Muhammad's respect for ideas of Christians and Jews. Jews are seen reading from the Torah and in prayer. A Jewish Rabbi leads a prayer. View of Dome of the Rock at Temple Mount, Jerusalem. Other Muslim mosques: the Moti Masjid (Pearl Mosque, M64V+P7J, Lal Qila, Old Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi 110006, India), seen from the Diwan-e-Khas or Red Fort of Delhi, India. in the Lahore Fort or Shahi Qila (H8Q7+56P, Fort Rd, Walled City of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan), Punjab, British India. View of the courtyard of the Grand Mosque of Kairouan (M4J3+GMR, Rue de La Kasbah, Kairouan, Tunisia) in Tunis, Tunisia. Slate states that Islamic decoration is confined to Arabic script and geometric or floral designs. Architecture of a mosque shows columns, pillars, and arches at the side of a courtyard. As previously noted, the columns and the roof of the mosque are decorated only with Arabic script, floral and geometric designs. A decorative grill in a mosque.
U.S. 22nd Marine Regiment in combat with enemy near Naha, Okinawa. Tank on side of hill fires village in the background. Smoke rises from huts. Marines advance over top of ridge. Marine hit in the neck, stops and is looked at by two buddies who lay down their weapons, all sitting in an embankment. Flames rise from village in the background. 30 cal air cooled machine gun crew fires from field. Tanks and Marines advance towards ridges in the background. Turret and 75mm gun of M-4 tank rotate. 30 cal machine gun crew fires towards hills in the background. Marine rifleman with M-1 rifle fires at ridge. Explosion and smoke near river's edge. Marines look towards city of Naha in the background. Flames rises from native hut at edge of river. Marines fire rifles from debris of demolished building. (World War II period).
Blizzard conditions on the Western Front during World War II. United States M4 Sherman tanks tanks plow through snow in the Low Countries. Tanks, trucks and infantry struggle along a road. The tanks are camouflaged in white. Snow plows followed by jeep and infantry clear the road. Military police direct traffic. U.S. troops shovel snow. The engineers search for mines along roads and roadside ditches. A signal man talks at a field. Snow covered Piper Grasshopper airplane. telephone. A camouflaged field gun. U.S. troops sled and toboggan with children on snow covered ground.
French civilians gather outside the Notre Dame Cathedral after the liberation of Paris during World War 2. The Notre Dame de Paris (6 Parvis Notre-Dame - Pl. Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France). People around the building. A few small buildings are seen near the Cathedral. A crowd at the entrance and the area in front of the Cathedral. M4 Sherman tanks move in a line. A tank has the letters ' Franche-Comte' on it. Soldiers on the tanks. People gathered around to welcome the soldiers.
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