Briefing about D-Day invasion of Normandy prepared by SHAEF Public Relations Division (SHAEF is Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces). With English narration. Allied troops on foot and in DUKWs, amphibious trucks move towards southern ports in England to launch D-Day attack in France during World War II. Allied soldiers board landing crafts and landing ships. Military vehicles being loaded in ships. Royal Air Force bomber aircraft attack German-held Normandy coast during night. Fire and explosions occur. A soldier talks to another soldier holding a bayonet. Allied soldiers aboard vessels move across the ocean as balloon barrages fly over head. British soldiers look at pamphlets on France. Soldiers read General Eisenhower's order. Footage shot between June 6 and June 9, 1944 (D-Day to D-Day plus 3)
General Dwight D Eisenhower, General Spaatz and Air Marshal Mallory discuss the plan for invading Normandy, France during World War II. Supplies are massed in England for the invasion. British soldiers and U.S. Army soldiers preparing for invasion and boarding ships for the voyage across the English Channel. Some British troops carry bicycles on board. U.S. soldiers marching toward landing craft and boarding landing craft. United States bomber aircraft fly and bombard coastal defenses in France. Aerial camera view from inside allied aircraft as it flies low over German Atlantic Wall defenses and fires rockets at the coastal defenses. Aerial view of beaches of Normandy in the days soon after the D-Day invasion of France. Allied troops landing and bringing supplies ashore. Groups of German soldier prisoners of war lined up under Allied guard. General Montgomery visits Normandy, arriving and jumping down to the beach from a DUKW amphibious vehicle. People in England receive news about the invasion through newspapers. British citizens holding the Evening Standard newspaper with headline reading "The Invasion of Europe Begins." British civilians buying newspapers and reading the news. A busy street in England and a queue of people buying newspapers at a newsstand. View of Allied aircraft flying in formation and closeup views of faces of British civilians looking up at the sky.
United States Navy sailors wearing swimming trunks play at Omaha beachhead in Normandy, France during World War II. They throw one of the sailors up in the air again and again as barrage balloons fly over head. Landing Ship Tanks anchored in the background.
A United States military convoy on a road during WWII. Some footage dramatized. Aerial view of convoy from fighter plane. Smoke screen dispersed by plane next to military convoy. Fast moving tanks drive through smoke screen. A very fast tank takes air as it jumps over large mound and comes crashing to the ground. A tank blasted by howitzers loses its tread in explosion. Major Stewart Doyle talks to officers and notes that "it is the duty of every officer when capture is imminent to destroy all codes, documents, and cypher device settings...." In dramatization, a United States army officer transcribes a radio message onto a piece of paper and hands it to a soldier. The soldier, wearing goggles, gets onto a motorcycle and speeds away. View of German sniper shooting motorcycle messenger speeding down road. German soldier steals message bag. German cryptographic decipher team working. Close up of clock as time changes in montage. German radio officer receives message. Convoy on road. German pilots receive command in office. Allied convoy being attacked by fighter planes. Major Doyle reminds viewers to "know your rules on cryptographic security measures...."
A film titled 'Atlantic review # 2' shows NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) students in a radar class in Netherlands. A man marks path of an airplane on a large plotting board. Students of various countries at NATO aerodynamics school. Plane model placed in test chamber. Mock combat exercises take place as NATO servicemen operate radar and other equipment in control room. Students at Track and Beacon school in Holland as they learn about tactical air navigation. Radar blimp flies off from Lakehurst, New Jersey. Radar men work on controls to check radar screens.
Technicians work on various instruments in a laboratory at SITFA ( System Interamericano de Telecommunicaciones de Furezas Aereas) station in Uruguay as an Air Force officer monitors their work. They also work on controls.
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