A machine gun crew camps in France during World War II The crew sits in a group and reads a newspaper. A 50 caliber gun emplacement in the background. Two crew members read the Sunday Mirror funnies. The entrance to a tent covered dugout. Barracks bags near a tree in the foreground. An enlisted man hangs washed clothes on a string which is attached to a tent dugout. Trees in the background. Another enlisted man sleeps under a tent shed. A soldier leaves a camouflaged pup tent. Camouflaged item kept in side. The soldier walks out. Several pup tents. An enlisted man comes out and walks with a book in his hands. Another enlisted man sleeps in a dugout with a tent shed over it . He takes a gun and leaves.
U.S. soldiers at a camp in France during World War II. Wrecked Horsa gliders on a field and invasion markings on the gliders. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft parked on the edge of the field in the background. A gun emplacement in the foreground. A U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain taxis in the background while towing a U.S. Army Air Force CG-4 Haing glider. Personnel on the field in the foreground. An improvised operations tower and a personnel in the nose of the Horsa glider in the foreground. Wrecked gliders and parked P-47s. A small water tank on a trailer in front of an improvised shower in the nose of the Horsa glider. A soldier takes a shower. The chest of the soldier under shower. He dries himself under a heater. A soldier comes out of the improvised operations room which is in the nose of a glider. A soldier gets a haircut. He wears a camouflage cloth for cover. He is seated between the noses of two wrecked gliders. An operator in the front of the improvised operations tower speaks into a phone. Another soldier gets a haircut in the nose of the Horsa glider. The soldier cutting hair is wearing a medic armband. A wrecked glider. Invasion markings in the foreground. A C-47 taxis in the background towing a CG-4 glider. A P-47 parked on a runway.
Several United States aircraft taxi on a runway and take off in France during World War II. A tractor crane hooked to a wrecked U.S. Army Air Force Waco CG-4 glider. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts parked in the background. A U.S. Army Air Force Silver Lockheed P-38 Lightning taxi past the parked aircraft in the background. The aircraft while taxiing raises dust. Invasion markings on the aircraft. A USAAF C-47 taxis forward, takes a turn and takes off. The aircraft in flight over the low field. Insignia of the United States. A U.S. Army Air Force Martin B-26 Marauder taxis on a runway and raises dust. Another C-47 taxis on the runway and takes off. A signal aircraft in the foreground. Parked aircraft and trees in the background.
Two P-47D aircraft raise considerable dust as they make a formation takeoff from Advanced Landing Ground, A-12, at Lignerolles, France, during World War 2. They are painted with white invasion stripes Change of scene shows P-47D, tail number 42-27603, of the 362nd Fighter Group, 378th Fighter Squadron, parked on stiffened steel mesh (Sommerfeld Tracking) at the field. The aircraft is under armed guard. Its tail wheel appears to be sunk below the steel mesh. A motorcycle is parked beside the aircraft. Airmen walk around the airplane, looking at battle damage that is seen on leading edge and aileron of its right wing. Two holes are seen in the fuselage below the cockpit. A Military policeman examines the holes in the fuselage. Camera shows accidental closeup of steel mesh on the field that appears to be the square-mesh track variety (SMT). Glimpse of a P-47D making a dusty takeoff.
United States Airborne Engineers in France during World War II. U.S. Airborne Engineers lay a mesh strip over a field. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts parked in the background. A mesh landing strip in the foreground. The Airborne Engineers lay more net on the landing strip. The engineers laying net. Parked aircraft in a revetment. A tractor crane and men attach the hook of the crane to the wreckage of the glider. U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrains parked at a field. An explosion on a tree and the tree falls.
United States Army Air Force aircraft taxi on a runway in France during World War II. A USAAF C-47 Skytrain taxis on a runway. The C-47 while taxiing raises dust. A parked C-47 taxis and insignia of the United States on it. U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts parked on an air filed. A P-47 taxis forward for a take off. The aircraft taxis and raises dust. Dust in the background.
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