A sunrise at a beach on Diego Garcia Island, Indian Ocean. A lagoon. Palm trees in the foreground. Boats are pulled ashore. Some boats are anchored.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the beach of Lido (Lido de Venezia) in Venice, Italy. Churchill hands his clothes and hat to his assistants. Churchill walk on sand and swims in the seawater. Other people swim in the sea. Churchill moves out of the sea as his assistants cover him with a towel.
Allied forces in Palau during World War II. An aircraft lands at an airstrip in Palau. Allied forces fire artillery. Smoke rises. U.S. Marines advance across a field. A U.S. Marines Corps F4U Corsair aircraft in flight as it attacks Japanese positions. A column of smoke rises. The Marines load shells in an artillery and fire at Japanese cave positions. Wounded Marines on the ground. The wounded being placed on a litter and rescued amidst heavy shelling. A landing craft with troops loaded on to it heads for a beach. Aircraft in flight as they bombard the coast. Crafts arrive at the coast. Artillery being fired as tanks advance.
Allied invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Various amphibious assault and support ships in a harbor as seen from a hill. A DUKW (amphibious truck) loaded with dead personnel. A beach strewn with American and Japanese dead. A combat Marine with a dog mascot. He feeds the dog. Another Marine with a cat.
Allied fleet at Normandy, France during World War II. A Cutter being beached at a coast in Normandy. A Coast Guard patrol boat with a cargo net hanging over its side. The bow of a patrol boat and a wrecked landing craft in the background. A wrecked patrol boat. Soldiers walk past in the foreground. Patrol boats docked as American flags fly aboard them. Four patrol boats tied up along side one another. Men come out of a hatch on a patrol boat. Two men come near a ready box and grab two 20 mm magazines. Gun crew mans a 20 mm anti aircraft gun. A man puts on a magazine. A patrol boat and two cargo vessels anchored in the background.
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. A battleship bombards a beach of France. Explosions occur in the background and billows of smoke rise upwards. USS Texas ( BB-35) fires salvos and explosions occur on the coast. An amphibious craft in the background. A Free French cruiser of the Glorie Class. An LCT ( Landing Craft Tank ) and an LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry ) underway at sea. The LCI in the foreground as barrage balloons fly overhead. LCTs and an LST ( Landing Ship Tanks ). A Task Force underway. A soldier looks from aboard a vessel in the foreground. A breakwater made up of sunken ships. A man stands on the deck of an LCI in a foul weather jacket and a watch cap. He looks over the horizon. Wounded men being put over into an LCM ( Landing Craft Mechanized). Three wounded men on stretchers. Men aboard the LCM with an American flag flying from it.
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