One of 12 rockets named "Bérénice" being launched from a French island Île du Levant (Le Levant) on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Distant views of people sunbathing, some are topless or in the nude, on rock outcroppings near the beach. Engineers and scientists work in a French national study and research center for aeronautics on the other side of the island (O.N.E.R.A. (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales). Missile 'Berenice' being prepared for launch. It will be used to measure kinetic heat upon its reentry into the atmosphere. Men work on panels in mission control center and look through a telescope. Missile being launched. A woman in bikini walks with a dog.
U.S. amphibious assault on Pacific island in World War 2. Transport ships offshore. A U.S. Fletcher Class destroyer, close to shore, bombarding the shore. White smoke rising from shell burst. Landing craft heading toward shore. Black smoke rising on shoreline, from naval shelling. More black smoke and fires at another shore location. Plume of water from Japanese shell striking near assault boats. The destroyer close to the shore as smoke drifts above mountain in background. Flames at shore. Landing craft tracked (LCT) approaching shore and avoiding area of fire and smoke. American SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser, PC-1278, close to shore. She displays a red flag with white stripe, as secondary control ship for Red Beach. Several LVTs led by one displaying Wave Commander blue and orange flag. Several plumes of water thrown into the air from Japanese shells or bombs. Assault boats reaching narrow beach, where a fire is burning. Other boats and LVTs avoiding the area of smoke and fire. Landing craft clustered at shore and one flying red and white flag, away from the shore. Several structures on the shore. More black smoke rising from shore. Camera pans around showing steep vegetation-covered hills characteristic of the island.
American patrol craft and many small boats in rough waters during the Invasion of Normandy. LCI-85, no weight on, listing to starboard. An American Attack Transport (APA) with a Landing Craft Utility (LCU) along its starboard quarter. LCI-492 moving at about 10 knots. Starboard beam view of a transport ship with smaller craft alongside. Troops aboard transport with packs on, ready for disembarkation. Soldiers administer first aid to a wounded man covered with a blanket on deck of transport. Transport at anchor, small gun boat speeds by in foreground. A Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) alongside ship. Soldiers on deck of camera ship look down over landing craft. Soldier on stern of a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI). Soldier on deck of LCI, letting go of lines, LCVP alongside. Soldiers on deck of the LCI, tending to a wounded soldier, LCVP alongside. A wounded soldier lying on deck, covered over with a blanket. Soldiers on LCI preparing to lift another wounded soldier from landing craft. A wounded soldier in landing craft, another lying on a stretcher in hold of landing craft. Wounded personnel on deck of camera ship. Wounded soldier on a stretcher, being lowered to main deck, from an upper deck. Blood and parts of the human body scattered around on deck. Small camera case covered with blood and fleshy parts of the human body. LCU loaded with troops heading for beach area. Other ships are scattered in background. LCU-199 loaded down with troops, heading for the beach. (World War II period).
August 1944: U.S. soldiers get off a Landing Craft on the French coast. Soldiers on U.S. battleships. U.S. officers discuss among themselves. Soldiers move across the beach. Soldiers sit outside an abandoned unfinished German pillbox. They examine German artillery. A camouflaged German gun IMPLACEMENT. A U.S. Landing Craft hit by a German radio controlled flying bomb. The charred and destroyed craft on the beach. Soldiers unload heavy equipment and vehicles including jeeps and tanks from Landing Crafts. U.S. battleships in the background. Blimps in the sky. Soldiers move across a street. Soldiers in trucks. Engineers construct an airstrip through a vineyard. Heavy machinery and equipment used to remove the rubble and bushes, as well as to level the ground. Military trucks and vehicles on the road. (World War II period).
Allied troops in France, during World War 2. Troops advance to attack at the St. Lo line. Soldiers seated on artillery and some on foot. They go through the city of Valognes. Military vehicles cross destroyed buildings. A man walks past ruins. A war correspondent walks on a Normandy beach. Many triangular beach obstacles with mines attached to them placed there by German forces and slave laborers.
Allied fleet advances during the Invasion of France in World War II. Invasion force, barrage balloons in the sky. Soldiers aboard a cutter manning their stations. Two soldiers seated on the cutter, 20MM gun in the background. Broadside view of a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) underway, bow of another LCI on the left. A large steel barge loaded with equipment. Assault wave heading for the beach, cruiser in the background. An amphibious craft heading for beach, bow of an LCI on the left.
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