Allied invasion of Southern France during World War II. Tracers strafe the beach. An Allied destroyer underway at sea. Landing crafts underway at sea. Allied soldier on the deck of a ship. Smoke emerges from the coast as a result of Allied bombardment. A soldier looks through a pair of binoculars. A ship strafed in background and smoke rises. Explosions occur in sea and smoke rises.
German troops in Italy during World War II. German soldiers string barbed wires to put up a fence across a field in Southern Italy. Soldiers fire artillery at Allied positions and smoke rises.
After extensive slate of historical information, this film shows U.S. Coast Guard personnel launching a large dory (life boat) from the U.S. Coast Guard Gloucester Station in Gloucester, Massachusetts (Old House Cove, westerly side Gloucester Harbor). They slide the boat down rails, launching it directly into the water. Coast Guardsmen in foul weather gear are seen rowing a large lifeboat in rough waters near rocky shores. Eight men row, sitting in four pairs side-by-side on fixed thwarts (benches) and one stands in the stern (a coxwain) steering with a 16’ oar. A powered life boat is seen briefly, in extremely rough waters. Remainder of the film shows an animated map of the East and South coasts of the United States with dots identifying Coast Guard Stations on those coasts. At this point, the film concentrates on Rescue Stations in the Boston Division. A beached two-masted sailing ship is shown. A large steamship emitting black smoke from her funnel, is seen beached and listing on a shore. Aerial view of Light House on Block Island, off Rhode Island. Aerial view of a freighter run aground just off shore. Aerial view of a Coast Guard Station with a highway running past it. Aerial view of another Coast Guard Station located where narrator says is a dangerous point.
Allied invasion of Southern France during World War II. Aerial views of Allied occupiied aerodrome with numerous gliders and United States C-47 tow plane aircraft parked in the field. they are marked with white D-day invasion stripes Tents set up at the field. Wrecked German airplanes and bomb craters. Wrecked aerodrome. Low level aerial views of bombed roads, railroads and bridges.
Allied troops during the invasion of Southern France during World War II. Allied troops walk along the beach. Men dig foxhole with helmet while others use a shovel. Soldiers carry wounded men on litters towards a landing craft. German prisoners rounded up on the beach. Wounded American soldiers placed in a landing craft.
Allied troops during the invasion of Southern France during World War II. Allied soldiers disembark from a LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) and wade through waist deep water to reach the beach. Men advance inland. Barrage balloons fly over the beach.
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