Major-General Thomas Gordon Rennie, Commander of the British Third Division, inspects landing craft preparations on the Solent strait at Gosport, England. Soldiers, vehicles, and supplies crowd on landing craft deck. A tank parks on landing craft deck. LCTs, destroyers, and other vessels anchored a day before D-Day. Barrage balloons flying above the ships. A crewman signals using flag semaphore above the deck. Camera moves to deck where soldiers are seen resting, playing card games, smoking, sleeping, beside vehicles as they wait for departure. A soldier reads a France guidebook. British soldiers reading books and eating and drinking. Some British troops sleep and chat under trucks.
During the D-Day Invasion of Normandy. British troops disembark from landing crafts at Sword Beach and move in lines towards the beachhead. Military trucks and tanks are seen on the shore as smoke emerges from a hill on the beach. Various wrecked building on shore. British troops carrying equipment and a bicycle ashore. In last 15 seconds scene shifts to landing of U.S. 1st Infantry troops at Omaha beach. View of waters edge from higher up beach. Gear and bodies floating in water. U.S. Army soldiers coming ashore as several are struck by German machine gun fire and drop to the ground. (World War II period).
Views of heavy and heaviest German railway siege guns of World War 2. A Krupp K5E 283 mm Leopold railroad gun moving along a railroad track. It hooks up with supporting rail cars. Soldiers ride in an open car carrying shells for the gun. Soldiers moving powder bags for the gun. Glimpse of German troops carrying shells from a trench (probably for a 12.8 cm FlaK 40 anti-aircraft gun). Next,German soldiers are seen pushing a shell for a 38 cm Siegfried K (E) (K - Kanone, on a rail dolly, and them moving it by means of a mechanical arm, up to the breech of the gun where gunners load it. Several views of shells being loaded into German railway guns, including the 80cm Dora, or Schwerer Gustav. Views of heavy German gun barrels being raised, including 406mm (16 inch) SK C34 Coastal Defense guns. The Thor 60cm mortar being raised for firing. More railway guns.
Mast of British ship with British Naval Ensign shown. Allied warships off coast of Normandy in World War 2. Several barrage balloons aloft. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower seen on bridge of the British Royal Navy Leander-class light cruiser HMS Apollo with British Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, Naval Commander in Chief of the Allied Naval Expeditionary Force for the invasion. Landing craft approaches ship and General Omar N Bradley boards the HMS Apollo. He is greeted by General Eisenhower and Admiral Ramsey. Another craft nears the ship and British General Bernard L. Montgomery boards the HMS Apollo.
German forces moving to defend against the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War 2. German troops run past a disabled American Sherman tank as they take cover from attacks by British fighter bombers. Several German Stug III tank destroyers make their way along a dirt road. They are covered in natural foliage as camouflage. A German infantryman with rifle in a trench, looks up as Allied aircraft attack. German artillerymen firing Flak 18 (88mm) antiaircraft guns at the British planes. Another German gunner, seated and firing a 20mm Flak 30 light antiaircraft gun. British Hawker Typhoon IB fighter bombers dropping bombs from low altitude and strafing. Smoke rising from bomb bursts. Germans firing a Flak 36 (88mm) antiaircraft gun. View of Hawker Typhoon flying close overhead with rockets and gun barrels protruding from wings. An airplane with slight smoke trail. Another close low altitude pass by a Hawker Typhoon aircraft. German gunner seated at his antiaircraft gun. Half a dozen British aircraft making bombing runs. British Typhoon aircraft in D-day stripes, flying past, low and climbing. German gun crew firing as bombs continue to burst. A British airplane is hit and burning. Closeup of some burning unrecognizable aircraft wreckage in a grassy field. German gunners, carrying small arms, jump over their emplacement wall and run to a British Typhoon aircraft in D-Day stripes, that has crash landed not far away, near the shore. Four armed German soldiers search around the downed aircraft. The German antiaircraft gun crew paint another white ring on their gun barrel, to credit a plane shot down.
German fighter planes take off. View of formation of German fighter planes in sky. Planes strafe enemy positions. Aerial view of enemy positions. (World War II period).
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