United States 3rd battalion troops are forced into an embankment on Omaha Beach by Nazi German snipers and machine guns on D-Day in World War II. More United States Army soldiers land in Omaha Beach. A group of soldiers wearing life vests sit and rest on the beach. Some soldiers are digging trenches on the beachhead. Engineers prepare det cords and other equipment to clean up shore obstacles. Medics carry casualties in litters and treat injuries. A medic treats a wounded soldier’s back. Another medic holds an IV fluid as his colleague treats an unconscious soldier. A Landing Ship, Tank (LST) on the beachhead. A United States Army medic treats an injured German prisoner. Nazi German prisoners of war sit on the beach head after their capture. An unconscious German soldier. Two German prisoners of war, including a young German soldier and a middle-aged German soldier.
U.S. Marine artillery battery loads up and boards amphibian DUKW vehicles. They drive the DUKWs over land and beach into the water. Some board a Landing Ship (LSM) in the surf. Others board an LSM Landing ship in deep water, off the coast.
Men on surfboards in the United States. Young men paddle surfboards out on a beach. Men stand on the surfboards. They go back into the sea. Water spills as the men paddle the surfboards.
Girls in swimsuits stand with their slide boards at the Morgans Beach in Enfield, Maine. Girls climb the ramp to reach the toboggans. Girls sit on the slider boards and slide one after the other from a 60 foot incline, dashing into a cold stream pond at 40 miles per hour.
News about a hot weather heat wave in various American newspapers. Views of people at crowded Coney Island Beach and SteepleChase Park Pool. Children stand in a public fountain to cool off. Group of boys on a city street open a fire hydrant and play in the water spraying from the fire hydrant. 1950's cars pass by getting wet in the process. Man drinks a whole mug of beer. Narrator contrasts the heat wave with snow scenes from prior winter storms. Man shovels snow. Men on streets during a blizzard. Snow covered vehicles, buildings, and streets. A dog near a fire hydrant in the snow. A man pushes a car stuck in the snow. Close up of spinning tires in snow.
Farmers harvesting grain and corn with machinery on American farms with a narrow tractor harvester. Steel mills and heavy industry and cargo railroads in the United States. Industrial views with smokestacks releasing much smoke and smog (also pollution scenes). Scenes of New York City with busy streets filled with cars, buses, and truck traffic, together with pedestrians. Many varied 1940s and 1950s cars on the roads. Elevated and also aerial views of U.S. highway networks busy with 1940s and 1950s cars. Views of Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York. Scenes of destruction in Japan from the atomic bomb, with sweeping views of destroyed city in Hiroshima or Nagasaki circa 1945 or 1946. U.S. Army infantrymen engaged in house-to-house fighting in Europe during World War II, firing rifles and moving between points of cover in a city filled with rubble.
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