A film titled 'The True Glory' based on Allied invasion and conquest of Western Europe during World War II. Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight D. Eisenhower introduces the film and speaks about Nazi defeat on Western Front in World War II. Animated map shows Germany and surroundings darkened on a world map. Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler giving an impassioned and animated speech. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels stands with other German officials. German troops parade. Massive columns of German soldiers marching in formation. German men beat drums. Barrel of a naval-type heavy gun firing. Huge explosion on the ground. Views of the German Atlantic Wall defenses including large fortifications and bunkers. German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Staff of the German High Command, inspecting the massive gun emplacements and coastal bunkers.
Allied troops undergo training during World War 2, in North Devon, England. Sign reads ‘War Department - Danger - Keep Out’. Allied troops train on an obstacle course. Troops fire guns in prone position and scale cliffs during the training. Men row a boat in rough sea. In Germany, Nazi Generals confer and plan strategies.
D-Day invasion of France by Allied Force during World War 2. American troops wade ashore from landing crafts at Omaha Beach, Normandy. Wounded huddle together on Omaha Beach. Allied troops care for wounded on litters at the beach. Fallen American soldiers covered and lying on beach next to a dozen captured German prisoners of war. Allied ship burning offshore. Reinforcements coming from other beaches and from more landing craft. Troops wading ashore from landing craft.German soldiers firing rifles and mortars.Crashed glider."Screaming Eagle" insignia of 101st airborne Division on sleeve of paratrooper.German reinforcements of armor and infantry arriving from Berlin.British infantry leaving landing craft on another Normandy beach. They move rapidly off the beach and then fight their way inland, crawling at times.British artillery support firing. The steeple of a church falling to shellfire.British General Bernard Montgomery jumping down from an amphibious vehicle at a beach in Normandy. Allied troops riding armored vehicles into a French town. U.S. Air Forces P-38 fighters in flight overhead.Formation of British aircraft. Closeup of British De Havilland Mosquito bomber. Allied aircraft in close support, strafing German ships, flak towers, and fortifications. British Hawker Typhoon aircraft in action..
View of Omaha Beach,and Allied reinforcement and resupply operations following the D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War 2. Barrage balloons above the shoreline. Boats in the water, some sunken. Large supply ships and Landing Crafts tank (LCTs) moving Sherman tanks,armored vehicles, jeeps, trucks and equipment ashore. Wounded Allied soldiers being carried on litters to be ferried out to the larger ships. British Army soldiers holding their ears as they fire mortars. Scottish troops setting up outside Caen and exchanging mortar fire with German defenders. Scottish soldiers cleaning weapons. One with a pet cat. Scots soldiers crawling through grass and firing machine guns. Jeep with red cross carrying wounded on litters. Battle in city of Caen. Allied soldier carrying wounded comrade on his back. Medical dressing station set up in the city. MPs and medics tending to wounded. Army ambulance rushing wounded to field hospital behind the lines. Medical team performing surgery on wounded soldier. Narrator says they could not stop bleeding. View of dog tags on a white stake in the ground signifying burial spot for a dead soldier.
The Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. Improvised port facilities being erected in "Operation Mulberry." Ships carrying troops and supplies pull up to the Mulberry piers. Troops and vehicles moving on the piers toward the shore at Normandy. A severe storm tears up the mulberry port facilities. A man crawls a rope invertedly to get to a ship. War materiel moving on the Normandy beaches. A map of Normandy. View of Seaport at Cherbourg, France. Allied and German forces moving to battle over the Cherbourg port. Large formation of Allied aircraft. United States troops battling Germans in hedgerows, on the way to Cherbourg. A United States soldier uses a SCR-536 Walkie-talkie while in hedgerow. Soldier smoking a cigarette in hedgerow. French farmers collecting hay with pitchforks. United States troops being welcomed by French residents. Meeting heavy resistance at outskirts of Cherbourg, the U.S. employs batteries of field artillery. Some infantry engaged in street fighting. Nazi German General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben surrenders to the American forces in Cherbourg.
Map showing Cherbourg, and Caen, further up the peninsula, in France during World War 2. German forces preparing to defend Caen. Nazi SS troops and armored divisions moving into positions.Scenes of Allied forces battling for Caen (much at dusk or nighttime).Sky filled with Allied warplanes. Bombs away views and bombs falling and smoke rising from targets in area of Caen. British infantry crouched beside a road. British Avro Lancaster bomber in flight. Bombs exploding on the ground. Smoking ruins of buildings.1st Canadian Army troops moving into the war torn city. Street-to-street and house-to-house fighting in Caen. Civilian residents of Caen emerge from shelters onto streets, after fighting ceases. A small boy picks up an apple from the street and eats it. A soldier of the Polish 1st Division is seen. British 7th Armoured Division (the Desert Rats) and infantry advancing out of Caen. British forces in heavy fighting south of Caen against German defenders.
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