Stretcher carrying wounded is lowered onto transport ship (AP). Close and medium views of U.S LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry) damaged by shell fire during WW2 invasion of France (D-Day operations). The ship is badly listing with its starboard side low in the water. Distant shot shows multiple ships near the damaged LCI. Elevated close up from transport ship of damaged LCI as wounded are hoisted onto the transport ship using a stretcher. Landing Craft, Mechanized (LCM) in the water beside the damaged LCI. Medium shot of bridge of damaged LCI where soldiers speak with unseen party on the taller transport ship.
Elevated shot of 83-foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter serving as a military rescue ship during Allied invasion of France. Distant convoy of LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry), each with a barrage balloon overhead. Wide view of area with multiple ships including LCIs, transport ships, and destroyer escort on patrol. Barrage balloons overhead. Closer shot of destroyer escort. Scene changes to view from transport ship of wounded personnel being evacuated off LCT (Landing Craft, Tank) on stretchers. The wounded soldiers are lifted aboard the transport ship and carried off.
A motorcade arrives and dignitaries get off. German Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring greets French Marshal Philippe Petain and Admiral Francois Darlan in St. Florentin, France. Officers salute the two Frenchmen. Goring talks to Marshal Petain and Admiral Darlan. They board a train. The three leaders stand outside the train. A French flag on the car.
Uniformed U.S. war correspondents and U.S. Army officers explore the house and grounds of the French Chateau de Pont-Rilly, in Négreville near Normandy France, soon after the Invasion of Europe. (The chateau was designed in 1765 by architect Pierre-Raphaël de Lozon for the Marquis d'Ourville). U.S. Army officers in the balcony of the mansion overlooking the entrance. Exteriors of the palatial chateau. A large bomb hole is visible in the roof, right of the main entrance. A French boy points out something distant on the grounds of the Chateau. A swan in a pond. Exteriors of the mansion. At the end of July 1944, near the time this footage was shot, the chateau became the headquarters of Advance Section of Com Z, also known as "ADSEC" (Advance Section, Communications Zone).
Ground crews struggle to control an amphibian blimp being threatened by winds near the water at St. Malo, France. Aviator Barra Sturzt is visible above the cabin of the blimp, waving his arms and trying to direct the efforts of ground crews. Members of the French Auto Club, which organized the seaplane competition, are seen talking together. (At end, a few frames show several club members standing with a military officer in dress uniform with sword. To their left (right in photo) an aviator in flight gear, including helmet, walks toward a biplane aircraft parked on rails at edge of water.)
People gather in the grandstand of the Hunaudieres horse racing track near Le Mans, France, in 1908, to watch Wilbur Wright's demonstration of the Wright Flyer airplane. It is a major social event. An article about Wright in the newspaper. They take a passenger with them for 36 miles. An airplane in the field. Men work on the plane. Views of the Wright Flyer aloft, with a passenger.
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