D-Day invasion of Normandy, France by Allied forces during World War II. Formation of Allied plane overhead. Convoy at sea with barrage balloons above. Invasion fleet off shore. Allied naval vessels bombard Normandy coast. Ships at sea fire. Two guns fire from deck of ship. Ships flying barrage balloons. Normandy beach in the background. Small craft heading for shore. Troops loaded in landing craft offshore.
U.S. soldiers in Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. U.S. soldiers going ashore in a raft. A U.S. soldier uses a telephone on a beach. A man climbs up a pole to rig a pulley. American flag is raised. A soldier stands near a building. Soldiers sit outside a building.
J Film begins showing the Japanese ocean liner Tatsuta Maru underway at sea. A slate and photo are shown dedicating the film to Stephen Ordway. a boy of the youngest generation. Interior of a building shows the Japanese Chairman of the Society for International Cultural Relations (Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai) speaking. Two Japanese women in boat. Fisherman throws net. Many Japanese boatmen pulling on long hawsers to bring boats toward the beach. Mountains surrounding houses in a village. A Japanese woman sits in a traditional veranda-like engawa, in which she arranges flowers (ikebana). She stands and adjusts her traditional kimona garment, helped by a younger woman. Several Geisha girls are seen in various activities and walking alond a sidewalk. One performs a traditional slow dance before the camera.
PBY Catalina aircraft seen inflight above an Allied convoy of ships at sea. Closeup of British flag displayed at stern of one ship. A destroyer escort in the convoy. U.S. Army engineers creating a road in an area of wilderness. A steam shovel empties its bucket into a truck. A surveyor taking readings with a transit. Two graders moving side-by side as they level a new road A tractor pulling a drum compactor. A vehicle drives on a mountainside road built by Army engineers. Snow covered mountains seen in background. Animated map showing far flung places where military supplies had to be delivered during World War 2. An open Army truck carrying American troops on Guadalcanal in the Pacific. U.S. soldiers walking on a pier at Attu in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. American soldiers arriving at a pier in Accra, Gold Coast. Soldiers hold the American flag on a hilltop in Casablanca, French Morocco. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang, in Chungking. American troops in foul weather gear neat tents in Kiska, the Aleutians. Troops offloading from a troop transport ship in Cairo, Egypt. Troops in Algiers, and in Sicily. Troops hitting the beach in an amphibious assault.
Officials confer during World War II. Allied war material stacked on a port in England, including U.S. tanks, trailers, razor wire, fencing, and trucks in preparation for invasion of Europe in 1944. American and British soldiers work and load the supplies for their shipment to the war front. U.S. soldiers unload at a beach site. British Army soldiers roll a covered artillery piece . It has a chalk handwritten label on the gun barrel that says, "Slim's Deadly Poison" and an image of skull and cross bones. Laborers building a German fortification in coastal France. German General viewing English Channel from coastal fortification along the Atlantic Wall. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini confer in a meeting. The officials discuss strategies for the war over a large map. Newspapers with English headlines speculating about the coming Allied invasion. George Marshall and other Allied officers of the War Council of the united nations assembled at a large conference table and in discussion for the Invasion of Europe (D-Day invasion of France).
A film depicts the operations of the United States Engineers in the European Theater during World War II. Airplanes flying in formation overhead. They drop bombs over the enemy installations. Smoke arising as the targets explode. Soldiers disembarking from barges at the shore. They carry weapons and machines. They lay steel mats on the beaches. A truck passing on the steel mat. They build roads to advance.
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