Allied fleet at Normandy, France during World War II. A United States Coast Guards ( USCG ) ensign inspects ammunition in ready boxes. An officer climbs up a ladder aboard a ship. He salutes an USCG officer who hands over binoculars to him. The ensign salutes the Lieutenant Commander as he relieves him of the watch. An officer and an enlisted man signal with a blinker light.
Allied fleet at Normandy, France during World War II. A United States Coast Guards ( USCG ) officer looks through a porthole. A USCG ensign in the wheelhouse of an LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry). A helmsman in the background. The ensign looks through binoculars.
X rays being taken in Paris, France. A man stands behind an X ray machine and a young woman or possibly a nurse operates a movie camera focused at the machine. X-ray films of different body parts. The man stands behind the machine as the girl uses the camera to take X rays. The man drinks from a cup and the moving Xray shows the passage of liquid into the man's body.
British troops evacuate Dunkerque, France during World War II Operation Dynamo. Barges at a port. Damaged ships in a harbor. British soldiers get off a ship into a landing barge. Barges approach towards the beach in Dunkirk as smoke rises from the beach in the background. Troops wade through water towards the beach. Men aboard a Dunkirk rescue ship. British troops being rescued from a ship.
Germany surrenders in Rheims, France during World War II. Nazi General Alfred Jodl arrives at the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. General Jodl and others enter the building. U.S. General Walter B. Smith, Allied Chief of Staff and other officers at a desk. German General Jodl signs the surrender papers. General Smith also puts his signature on the papers. The surrender document with the signatures of the two Generals. Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower smiles. He holds two pens in a V sign.
D-Day operations during Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Allied troops disembark from an LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry) at Normandy beach. A man on a megaphone up on the bridge of a ship. Troops wade through surf to land at the beach. Bullets hit the water around the soldiers as they continue to unload from the LCI. LST ( Landing Ship Tank) -282 at the beach. Vehicles move along the beach. A U.S. Army 6X truck burns on the beach. The LCI ties up to the side of a transport. Allied troops disembark from the transport to the LCI along side. Vehicles off load from the LST to a smaller craft. A barge loaded with supplies heads towards the beach. The troops loaded in the LCU ( Landing Craft Utility) as it nears the beach. An officer talks over a phone next to a jeep. Vehicles leave the LCU into water with a beach in the background. The troops walk over the beach. Amphibious jeeps move through the surf. A 6X truck moves through the surf towards the beach. An amphibious jeep moves over a beach. German prisoners with their hands behind their heads. A barbed wire fence in the foreground. Prisoners duck downwards to escape an air raid.
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