82nd Airborne Division soldiers advance along a corridor beside the wall of an elevated cemetery in Saint- Marcouf, France during World War 2. They rest beside a wall. Local residents come their way. Rubble of destroyed buildings in the background. The French residents greet and converse with the American soldiers. Two Frenchmen point in a direction up and away. Remains of bombed out rural buildings. Soldier seen near a religious statue that still stands in rubble at front of a destroyed house. As the American troops proceed, they pass a sign reading, "Saint-Marcouf." A bombed out building. A triangular sign reading,"Touring-Club de France," with "Dunlop" written below it. View, from beside a wheeled cart, of troopers resting, in front of a wall in the relatively unscathed town center of Saint-Marcouf. 82nd Airborne patch clearly seen on left shoulder of some troopers. American trooper stooped down to speak with small French boy and girl in front of a house in town. Closeup of the little girl. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
During the D-Day invasion of Europe. American troops land on a beach in Normandy in France as they carry away injured soldiers on a stretcher. Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division - 16th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion sit on a narrow beach shore shielded against a chalk embankment. A landing craft nears a wider shore of Omaha beach shore as soldiers of the 3rd battalion dig fox holes. (World War II period).
U.S. landing crafts on D-Day near the shore at Omaha Beach in Normandy France as smoke is seen rising from a hill on the shore. View of 1st Infantry soldiers crouched down in landing craft (LST) as it nears the beach during invasion of France. View from the sand, close to the high rock wall embankment, out toward the exposed beach and water. Several landing craft askew in the water and bodies and debris floating in the distance on the edge of the beach. Camera pointed at edge of beach as more soldiers are coming ashore from landing crafts. Several U.S. soldiers are hit by enemy fire as they run ashore, and they drop to the ground. A wounded soldier with a bandage around his torso being helped by another soldier who tends to a wound on his back. A medic treats an injured soldier with a bandaged head on the ground . (World War II period).
A group of American soldiers clambers down into landing craft from troop ship near Normandy, France during World War II, in the days immediately following the D-Day invasion of France by the Allies. Ammunition being lowered by a cargo net into a waiting LCVP (Landing Craft vehicle Personnel) Soldiers climb down a net alongside the ship. Coast Guardsmen kneel during the church service at the weather deck of the ship. Officers stand by the life line and soldiers march across the deck. LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) loaded with soldiers moves toward the beach shore.
An American destroyer underway in ocean in Normandy, France. American sailors on the upper deck of a ship. Two BB's are seen. Several small crafts at the Normandy beach as barrage balloons fly overhead. A landing craft with soldiers on board near the beach. (World War II period).
American soldiers and military vehicles on the deck of a ship in France during world War II. Road graders,21/2 ton trucks,half tracks and other vehicles being unloaded and driven off onto Rhino landing barge. Soldiers listen to radio broadcast on the deck of the ship.
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