U.S. landing crafts hit a beach for the invasion of France (D-Day) during World War II. U.S. troops step off an LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) and climb onto the gangway of a ship. LCPs (Landing Crafts Personnel) anchored in the background. Soldiers move up a cargo net out of the LCVP. A destroyer of the Livermore Class in smooth seas. A U.S. officer speaks into a megaphone. An LCT (Landing Craft, Tank) underway. An LCVP-R (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel - Ramp) and an LCVP underway. LCVPs head for the beach. They move up on the beach. U.S. soldiers exit the LCVPs and advance. The soldiers run out of an LCVP. Barbed wire strung across in the background. An LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) underway.
U.S. landing crafts hit a beach for the invasion of France during World War II. U.S. troops climb up a cargo net out of an LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel). Landing crafts pull up alongside the gangway of a ship. A DE (Destroyer Escort) underway. A Task Force underway. Barrage balloons in the background. Transports underway. Personnel aboard a transport. Landing crafts loaded with U.S. troops head for the beach. A British LST (Landing Ship Tank) underway.
French 2nd Armored Division in France during World War II. A German ammunition dump burns near Verion. German prisoners are marched along a dirt road. French M-4 tanks and mortars fire into woods.
At beginning, and throughout the film, organ music is heard as camera pans from top of a church tower, down across the roof and sides, to the front of a church building in a German occupied town in Southern France, during World War 2. A lone German soldier patrols an empty street in the background. Closeup of the German soldier patrolling. Camera pans over stained glass window inside the church to a German soldier at keyboard playing the church organ. Camera shifts to view of interior balcony and stained glass windows at front of the church. View of soldiers hands on the keyboard as he plays the organ. Interior view of side of the church with pillars above which Gothic arches extend toward the roof. Camera pans down to view from behind the organist, showing him and the full interior of the church in the background, behind him. (The organ is located in a loft at the rear of the church.) Closeup profile of the soldier organist. Camera pans inside, showing damage to roof and then down to large pieces of masonry rubble on the floor. View changes to closeup profile of a German soldier standing outside at the door of the church.
King George V of the United Kingdom and his son, Edward, the Prince of Wales (future Edward VIII), visits the front line in France during World War 1. A valet holds the car door for King George V as he gets out of the vehicle. Edward, the Prince of Wales, arrives by car. French President Raymond Poincaré accompanies King George V during visit to the frontlines to view assembly of the French Army Corps cavalry as they charge in formation.
A naval patrol Zeppelin flying over United States Navy ships sailing the Atlantic Ocean during World War 1. United States battleship at sea. American Expeditionary Forces marching after their arrival in France in June 1917. United States soldiers, also known as “doughboys”, marching with the American flag through a town as French locals watch. A man shakes the hand of a passing soldier. United States troops marching in farmland and forested road.
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