D-Day on Iwo Jima, Japan during World War II. Beach area of Iwo Jima. Landing Craft Transporter (LST)787 with bow doors open, unloading 6-by truck into surf. Tractor pulls truck from ramp of 787. Beach master waves a flag. LST 1032 comes onto the beach. LSTs in the background. LST 1032 at beach. Ramp of boat comes down. Tractor pulls out. LST 787 discharge troops.
The D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. U.S. troops aboard an LCI (Landing Crafts Infantry) head for a beach. The troops go down the ramp of the LCI and wade through surf to reach the beach on the D-Day. Smoke on the beach. Officers on the deck of the LCI look through binoculars towards the beach.
U.S. Marines on the White Beach in Cap Batangan, Vietnam. The marines walk on the beach and toss their life jackets in a pile after off-loading from Landing Craft Utility LCU-1477. The marines move through the surf from a landing craft. Groups of Vietnamese civilians huddled on the beach under guard. The marines move inland towards a wooded area. LCU-1477 and LCU-1484 in the surf. A heavy tank leaves the LCU 1484 and moves through the surf towards the beach. (Vietnam War period).
Invasion of Iwo Jima, Japan by U.S. Marine During World War II. LVTs coming up the beach of Iwo Jima. Crane and damaged ship in the background. Marine Corpsmen apply bandage to a wounded Marine. A battleship shelling beach. Marine running across a beach, stops and talks with a man in a foxhole. Beached amphibious craft.
Opening scene behind introductory writing, shows U.S. troops climbing down from a landing craft and walking towards a beach during Normandy invasion of World war 2. Date is D-Day +3 (June 9, 1944) and allies are setting up logistic resupply operations. Views across beach at extreme low tide. A cluster of DUKW amphibious vehicles sitting on the sand, below some cliffs. Some buildings of the French village of Arromanches-les-Bainsin background. Closeup of a demolished French dwelling at base of cliff. Two U.S. soldiers walk along a road at the waterfront, where steel barriers that have been removed from the beach, are piled up. Closeup of the steel barriers. An M4 Sherman tank, equipped with deep wading gear is seen mired in the sand. A closeup of U.S. Landing Craft Tank (LCT-25) on the beach with an M3A1 Half-Track destroyed on its offramp. It had been hit by shell fire on D-day, setting other half-tracks and the landing craft afire. Closeup of the destroyed halftrack.
U.S. convoy making 'L' Day landings on beach of Okinawa. LVT rolls up on beach. Marines disembark from LVT. They carry carbines. Marines advance on beach area. More LVT roll up on beach. Marines advance up hill and pass by burial vaults (Japanese caves).
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