U.S. troops and a U.S. Navy Admiral on a Normandy beachhead. U.S. troops, heavily laden with gear, including life preservers, seen on Normandy invasion beachhead several days after D-Day, during World War 2. A large number of German prisoners of war walk past the camera, under guard. View from further back of the prisoners walking along the beachhead. Barrage balloons aloft in background. A U.S. Lieutenant in foreground and several soldiers and a jeep nearby. A DUKW amphibious vehicle drives past the marching prisoners. U.S. soldiers remove their flotation gear and stack them into a pile on the beach. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Don Pardee Moon seated in a jeep. LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry) in the background. Admiral Moon talks with several U.S. officers. He then climbs aboard a Dodge WC 52 vehicle, in which others are already seated on benches in the back.
Logistic support during Normandy invasion of World War 2. Soldier of U.S. 101st Airborne Division walks toward Normandy beachhead where large supplies of military equipment are seen onshore. Several landing craft are beached and tractors equipped with "A" frames move across the sand. U.S. Soldiers occupy a sand-bagged bunker. Radio antennas are set up. Scene changes to closeup of Army 6x6 camvas-covered trucks making their way from a Rhino Ferry (barge) across shallow surf to the beachhead. A barrage balloon is aloft in background.
U.S. B-26 Marauder bombers bomb ground targets during invasion of Normandy in World War II. Formation of bombers. Bombers painted with invasion stripes. Allied invasion fleet heads for Normandy beaches. Smoke billows up from bombed targets. Bombs fall over targets. White smoke rises from exploding targets.
From a recap of Allied actions leading to invasion of Normandy (D-Day) in World War II. Allied warplanes in flight as American and British seaborne forces head for rendezvous off the Isle of Wight. American B-26 and B-17 bombers in action. Ground targets in Normandy being bombed by Allied bombers. Invasion fleet makes dash across the English Channel. From edited film produced in 1947.
The Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. A sign reads: 'US Coast Guard Ruley C.Pho.M.'. Coast Guard Cutter, Task Force and barrage balloons in the background. Men working on a ship. They hold up canned Vienna sausages on the main deck of the ship. Vienna sausages are taken out of can and put onto tray. Deep cliff that drops down to the sea. Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) underway in the background. Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) loaded with troops. Sunken ships in the background. Sunken boat with Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) alongside. British trawler with two barges behind it. Patrol boat, sunken ships and another patrol boat in the background. LCI washed upon the beach at Normandy.
Three United States soldiers looking up to the sky while sitting on top of a tank in Normandy during World War II. A United States soldier standing against hedgerow looking up to the sky. Distant view of formation of United States bombers flying over Normandy. United States soldiers smile as they look upwards to watch bombers fly. Some soldiers use binoculars to watch. Soldiers sit on the grass while watching the sky. A soldier points upwards to a formation of bombers. A soldier turns his head while looking up the sky. A man rushes forward to catch a small leaflet falling from the sky. Two soldiers dash to grab a larger leaflet dropping from the sky and then read it together as the walk away.
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