Gun camera footage shows allied fighters strafing targets in French countryside during the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) in World War 2. Various vehicles, buildings and railway lines exploding as they are hit. German trucks being strafed by fighters. Aerial view of various railway lines, trains exploding due to strafing. Allied forces gliders on the ground. An Airspeed Horsa glider with “D-Day” invasion stripes. Two United States soldiers walk away from the Airspeed Horsa glider. British and United States soldiers unload supplies on the beach. More soldiers land on the beach in Normandy, walking down ramps from landing craft into water at beach. A tank and bulldozer drive up onto beach. Soldiers patrol the beach, with half-timbered Norman French houses in ruins on land. Famous shot of an Allied soldier collapsing on beach after being shot on the beach in Normandy during D-Day.
Home-made deep sea scuba diving suits in Venice Beach, California. Men don hot water boiler diving helmets and get into water. Women stand on beach and pump bicycle syle air pumps to provide air through long black tubes extending to the divers. Divers come out of the ocean water carrying a "treasure" box from bottom of the ocean floor. Woman comes out of the treasure box as they open it.
Ringling Barnum and Bailey circus clowns are seen cavorting about, near tents and riding on floats. Famous clown Emmett Kelly, doffs his hat from one of the floats. A trembling clown seen tight rope walking. Clowns bring out an "Adam Smasher" and put a clown inside and drop an object on his head. Men perform on a rope. Clowns laugh. Flash forward to Clown College in Venice, Florida where Bill Ballantine, famous ex-clown and Dean of Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown College, addresses a group of aspiring applicants who want to become clowns. A group of people learning to become clowns. People make-up and dress like clowns and perform. Two clowns with Ringling Brothers, Victor Rutz and Herbert Ledesma speak to the show host about being clowns, the frequency of shows, and the challenge of keeping people laughing. They make-up the show host as a clown. Clip finishes with a short bit featuring Legendary Master Clown Lou Jacobs performing with his chihuahua, Knucklehead.
U.S. military officers prepare to receive General Walter C Sweeney. View of Hangar No 5 at Homestead Air Force Base in background. General Walter C Sweeney arrives at Homestead AFB in Florida. He is greeted by other officers.1962.
United States soldiers during a rehearsal for the Invasion of Normandy. in World War 2. A lookout wearing closed-sided non-glare glasses as he scans the sky for aircraft. He turns a dial located on the nose bridge of the glasses to adjust the vision. Soldiers at the deck gun of a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) as it approaches the shore in the faint morning light. Side ramps are dropped on the LCI and soldiers move down ramps and onto beach area. Soldiers get off and run across the beach. Tanks unloaded from a Landing Craft Tank (LCT) and taken across the beach. Column of troops going down beach, heads toward Landing Crafts on beach. They make a left turn moving inward. Hill in the background. Landing Crafts on the beach.
Evacuation of Allied Troops at Dunkirk, France, during World War 2. Opening scene shows black smoke rising from beach area. Sign reads "Dunkerque". A German Henschel He 126 aircraft rolls over and dives toward Dunkirk. A formation of British Spitfire aircraft are seen, providing air cover over the beach during the Allied evacuation. They have dogfight with a German Fockwulf FW 190 fighter and engage a Heinkel He-111 bomber, and down a German Dornier Do 17 bomber. Allied antiaircraft guns firing from the beach area down a Henschel He 126 aircraft. Contrails in the air from dog fighting airplanes. Gunners fire from open cockpit airplanes. An Allied airplane is downed and crashes in an explosion. German Ju 87 (Stuka) dive bombers dive on targets. View from cockpit of one aiming for a transport ship. The plane pulls out and releases a bomb that explodes in the water next to the ship. View from distance of bombs exploding on a ship. British ships and boats of all kinds being employed to evacuate Allied forces. Soldiers being helped to board them, including some wounded on stretchers. Survivors from bombed ship make way in lifeboats. More smoke on the horizon from bombed ships. A wrecked British Spitfire on the beach. A crashed German Messerschmitt Bf 109 on the beach. A crashed German Heinkel He 111 bomber, inland. View of bomb damage in City of Dunkirk. Roadsides littered with abandoned Allied vehicles and equipment. A dead Allied soldier lying next to a truck. Abandoned antiaircraft guns and variety of military equipment left on the beach.
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