Allied invasion of Europe during World War 2. Opening scene shows sailors preparing to launch a landing craft. Skies are dark above and some barrage balloons are aloft. A Landing Craft Tank (LCT), filled with soldiers, slowly approaches a secure beachhead where U.S. Army trucks are driving along the beach. Next, the LCT has beached and lowered its front ramp. It is still some way from the beach. Soldiers ride jeeps down the ramp and through the water toward the shore. Some soldiers are seen dug in on the beach. Others march informally along the beach. Jeeps and trucks drive along the beach. Dark black smoke rises in the background An M4 Sherman of the 70th Tank Battalion, fitted with a bulldozer blade, moves past a fallen (dead) soldier partially covered with a tarp, lying on the sand. Small clusters of soldiers are setting up positions in the sand. Medics carry two stretchers towards a landing craft as they wade through the surf. Soldiers wade ashore from a stranded LCT.
Free French 2nd Armored Division massed after landing on Utah Beach during World War 2. Many M4 Sherman tanks massed together. French troops tighten bogie wheel tracks using a socket wrench. Free French soldiers adjust ammunition loading on a Browning M2 machine gun affixed to a tank.
Diver's air tanks on dock. Deck of capsized ship SS Normandie. Letters on port bow 'NORMANDIE'. SS Normandie ocean liner lays on her side following fire and capsizing at New York City harbor dock.
Religious Service before D-Day invasion during World War II. United States troops leave Landing Craft Vehicles (LCV) and climb up the gangway aboard United States Ship Bayfield (APA-33). A coast guard watches and announces using a megaphone to the soldiers climbing the cargo netting from hold of LCV. LCPLS and LCVP underway towards the French coastline. They move to the beach of Normandy. Several troops and military jeeps move out from the LCV.
German infantry battle against Allied forces in Normandy region in World War 2. German soldiers fire machine guns. German troops take high ground above a wide valley with forest in distance. Nazi German infantry forces supported by tanks and artillery battle for wooded area. Germab soldiers run over open ground toward Allied targets. In an unusual move, German soldiers employ a 20 mm Flakvierling 38 antiaircraft gun against Allied armor emerging from the woods. Explosions and smoke during battle. German tanks advance.
U.S. Navy Admirals board HMS Scorpion during Normandy Landings of World War II. Admirals Harold Rainsford Stark, Don P. Moon, John L. Hall Jr. and Alan Goodrich Kirk board HMS Scorpion from a landing craft off Omaha Beach.
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