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.
German General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller visits with Italian troops of the 6th Infantry Division CUNEO, after they occupy the Greek Island of Samos, without any resistance, in May 1941. He and his staff members drink local wine with the Italians. Italian soldiers eating bananas at the port, and picking oranges from a local tree. Remainder of film shows 8 thousand surrended defenders taken as prisoners of war, marching in a long line. Next, they are seen crammed on the deck of a Greek ship and then, later debarking. They march in loose formation.
American military trucks and vehicles on a beach in France during World War II. United States soldiers move along a road past a column of returning German prisoners.
American soldiers amidst military vehicles and landing crafts on a beach in France during World War II as smoke emerges from a ship at the coast. German prisoners of war move with their hands behind their heads. American soldiers clean sand and water from their rifles.
Mrs. Phyllis Gibbon of Somerset, England, expresses her gratitude to the United States Army and Red Cross for rescuing her and other Allied internees from Japanese camp Bilibid Prison in Manila, Philippines during World War II.
An American couple, Mr and Mrs Donald Zimmerman, from Yorba Linda California, with orphans of World War II, Dennis and Garnet Morris (or Mars), who have been adopted by them in Manila,Philippines after their father was imprisoned by the Japanese and their mother died in a prison camp. The couple states that they plan to take the children to their grandparents in Seattle Washington.
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