Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. Allied ships at harbors in England carry military equipment, medicines, food and other supplies. Allied soldiers rehearse landing soldiers load in landing crafts, tanks and artillery unloaded from a ship. On the day of the invasion soldiers climb down a ladder along the side of a ship and load in landing crafts. Crafts move beach wards. Soldiers land amidst heavy firing. Barrage balloons fly over head as Allied troops make amphibious landings in Europe.
Scenes from Spanish Civil War. Forces of Spanish Nationalists march into Zaragoza, Spain as the city dwellers look on. Women also march at the parade. A General with civilians. Sailors on board a ship as they wave. A ship underway. Children on a beach. Women put up tents.
Allied invasion fleet underway in the Pacific Ocean, off the Palau Islands, during World War II. Landing Craft Infantry underway at sea. A wave of LVCP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) underway to the beach. Admiral Fort and other officers on bridge of a ship look at the operation. Landing Ship Tanks and Landing Vehicle Tanks underway. Landing Vehicle Tanks circle the rendezvous area. Admiral Fort and General Roy Griger on the bridge of a ship look through binoculars and talk to other officers.
Logistic support during Normandy invasion of World War 2. Soldier of U.S. 101st Airborne Division walks toward Normandy beachhead where large supplies of military equipment are seen onshore. Several landing craft are beached and tractors equipped with "A" frames move across the sand. U.S. Soldiers occupy a sand-bagged bunker. Radio antennas are set up. Scene changes to closeup of Army 6x6 camvas-covered trucks making their way from a Rhino Ferry (barge) across shallow surf to the beachhead. A barrage balloon is aloft in background.
D-day minus 1 (June 5, 1944) during World War 2. U.S. soldiers eat a meal while seated on the deck of a Large Landing Craft Infantry LCI(L) number 88, docked in Weymouth, England. (This ship would be the first LCI(L) to carry troops to the Easy Red landing zone during the second wave of landings at Omaha beach, on D-Day. Among troops landing there would be the 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, with support from 7th Field Artillery Battalion;1st Engineer Combat Battalion; 1st Medical Battalion; 741st Tank Battalion (DD); 62d Armored Field Artillery Battalion; and 20th Engineer Combat Battalion.) A Captain and a field grade officer sit next to each other on the ship's deck. One soldier looks through his binoculars at an English woman standing outside her back door, looking back at him through her binoculars. Wash is drying on her line. The soldier tries to call out to her, but stops, realizing it is futile. Several of his buddies are amused by the whole event. Scene shifts to U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 bombers flying in formation, and then to aerial views from an aircraft, of bombs exploding on the ground in a city below. Next, a formation of B-17 bombers is seen, escorted by P-47 fighters. Scene shifts back to Weymouth harbor again, where American troops attend a Roman Catholic mass on the pier, adminstered by a military chaplain, wearing traditional clerical garb. LCL(L)s number 89 and 93 are seen tied up in the background. Coast Guardsmen gather around one of their ship's officers who briefs them on the operation.
Allied troops during the invasion of Southern France during World War II. Allied soldiers clear German mines in France, using metal detectors to find mines. Closeup of two shoebox mines. American M4 amphibian Sherman tank with Duplex Drive beside the minefield. Soldiers sit on the beach with incomplete German pill boxes in the background. Soldiers carry ammunition and artillery shells. Two and a half ton DUKW amphibious vehicles haul 105 mm howitzer ashore as it moves past a wrecked railroad line.
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