U.S. ships and landing crafts at Normandy beach for the invasion of France during World War II. Ships at a harbor. A beach in the foreground. A line of troops marches up a road. The troops march up on a hillside. U.S. Army vehicles move along the road. Damaged LCVPs (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) on the beach.
Wounded U.S. soldiers are transported from beach to LST (Landing Ship, Tank) after D-Day Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II. Jeeps and trucks loaded with wounded soldiers pulling away on beach. Landing craft beached in the background. DUKW (six-wheel-drive amphibious truck) leaves shore and goes into water. DUKW enters LST. Wounded soldiers lying in rows of cots aboard the LST. View of many LSTs in the shallows.
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.
Activities of the U.S. 5th Marine Division at Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Landing boats hit beach, troops disembark. Corpsmen provide medical aid wounded marine in a fox hole. Landing craft infantry (LCIs) retreat from beach under mortar fire. Marines advance towards the beach.
Activities of United States Marine Corps in Iwo Jima, Japan during the Battle of Iwo Jima, World War II. U.S. Navy Martin PBM Mariner being towed out in water. A cargo ship anchored in the background. Airplanes in flight overhead. A Landing Craft Tank (LCT) underway. A transport anchored in the background. Booms rigged out over side. A squadron of airplanes fly overhead. SP2C in flight overhead. A Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) heads towards the beach. Smoke rises up in the beach area. A Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) underway. PC-1460, LVT in the foreground. The LVT is off-loaded from a Landing Ship Tank (LST). LVTs underway. The LST in the background. A bulldozer on the beach. The LST in the background, off-loading a truck.
In opening scene prior to World War 2, camera pans across a building complex that might be a resort hotel. Scene shifts to hundreds of bathers on shallow water at a beach. Life guards occupy a structure in the shallows. Families with small children fill the shoreline and shallow water. some of the small children use flotation devices. Actual swimmers are seen farther out in deeper water. Closeup of three small children playing with a pot as they sit in a protected area that seems to be surrounded by seaweed or other vegetation. A boy behind them works to build the surrounding wall. Change of scene shows another area of beach with a long pier extending out into the water. The shore is completely hidden by families seated on the beach under huge umbrellas and tents. The next scene is of a downtown commercial district festooned with numerous banners overlooking the street. There are no vehicles evident. The entire area is filled with pedestrians. At another section of the town, the street is more densly crowded with pedestrians.
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