View of the Navy Department building, also known as the Main Navy and Munition Buildings (now demolished and turned into Constitution Gardens. Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States). Sign says “Bureau of Ships”. Rear Admiral Edward L. Cochrane speaks about the United States Navy’s shipbuilding and maintenance program during World War 2 and great needs for steel. To underscore his point, he notes that, "A single salvo of the main battery guns of such a ship as the South Dakota, for example, will take 10 tons of finished steel." He goes on to say, “Our job in the Navy until the war is over is using steel to build and to fight. We must continue to rely on the Homefront efforts to collect the big tonnage of heavy industrial scrap which is needed to make a fine quality steel in huge quantities which we need in the Navy” concludes Rear Admiral Edward L. Cochrane.
Front pages of various American newspapers such as the New York World Telegram and Journal American reporting World War 2 related news with headlines such as “INVASION FLEETS AT STATIONS”, “INVASION “IMMINENT”! FLEET SET FOR ACTION” “ROOSEVELT, CHURCHILL MAP INVASION STRATEGY”, and “INVASION THRUST AT EUROPE EXPECTED HOURLY IN LONDON”. United States and United Kingdom senior military officers gather for a meeting. Two officials read a report together.
German fortifications in the Maginot and Siegfried Lines in World War 2. Illustrated map of Western Europe depicting Great Britain, Netherlands, Ireland, Scandinavia, Belgium and Germany during World War 2. The Swastika symbol is shown on the German-occupied side. German soldiers and slave labor workers digging ditches for fortifications along Atlantic Wall. Shadows of men digging ditches. Men building tank barriers and roadblocks. A man twists a wire in place. Men constructing a bunker. German troops marching on the beach under watch by soldiers with guns. German troops enter a bunker. German soldiers ducking to go through a fortification bunker door one by one. Nazi German soldiers push a field gun to a camouflaged underground bunker. German soldier puts down his telephone. A howitzer in a German fortification facing the coast. Gun turrets moving up. German soldiers with a Karl-Gerät siege mortar called “Thor” during the Battle of Sevastopol. Nazi German railgun “Schwerer Gustav” during the Battle of Sevastopol. German soldiers load a 7.1 ton shell to the “Schwerer Gustav” railgun. A German officer uses a telescope. Dragon’s teeth tank obstacles in the Siegfred Line fortification in Western Germany. Barbed wire fences in a battlefield.
German soldiers emerge from underground bunker, move through trench to respond to Allied invasion of Sicily in World War II. Leaning on a trench parapet, a German soldier fires his MG34 machine gun at incoming American troops. Allied troops and vehicles move through beachhead in Sicily during invasion.
The capture of Cherbourg and Octeville to Allied forces during World War 2. Octeville, an important Nazi stronghold southwest of Cherbourg, falls to the 39th Regiment, 9th infantry division of the United States Army. United States soldiers running in a street. An American soldier taking cover at side of a road watching for enemy attack. A soldier uses a SCR-536 US Military “handie talkie”, the first handheld Walkie-talkie. American soldiers carefully navigate the streets of Octeville. Many dead German soldiers lying on the streets. American soldier points to a pile of dead German soldiers. Captured German soldier prisoners of war (POW) and two French Fifth Column “Collaborator” women are marched out of Octeville by American soldiers. United States infantry firing artillery at Cherbourg under a camouflage net. Cherbourg under fire from Allied artillery fire and bombings.
Allied forces capture Cherbourg during World War 2. Town sign of Cherbourg, France. Soldiers pass through ruined street in Cherbourg. Allied troops patrol Cherbourg. United States troops of the 324th Regiment 79th infantry division enter Cherbourg as they close in from east, south, and west of the town. Infantry patrolling an empty street in Cherbourg. United States Army sniper firing with a rifle. A military truck is parked on a street as soldiers conduct house-to-house mopping up operations. A United States soldier firing a rifle to take out snipers. U.S. infantry soldiers enter a house. An American soldier runs out of the Café du Rond-Point. Road signs near the Café du Rond-Point say “Valognes PARIS” and “Einzelfahrzeuge” (“Single vehicles” translated from German). A United States sniper aims from a window of a house attic. An American soldier guards an entrance of an apartment. Close view of a United States soldier aiming and shooting. Taking of prisoners of war: Captured German soldiers with their hands up are marched out of a building by American troops. A dead German soldier in the doorway of a building.
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