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Allied troops land in Normandy and Allied bombers strafe German industries and tank factories in Germany.

Allied bombers bombard heavy German industries during World War II. Allied planes in the sky and a convoy underway at a sea heading for Normandy. Allied troops land in Normandy. Men wading ashore after disembarking from landing crafts. Allied Supreme Command in meeting. General George C. Marshall confers with British officers. United States Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber (“One Night Stand”) drop bombs over Germany. More bombers dropping bombs over enemy position. Aerial view of bombs hitting factories in Germany. Captured German troops in a forest. Abandoned German tanks left on the road in the Eastern Front. Allied troops advance in the Ardennes Forest. German tank production at a factory in Plauen, Saxony, Germany. Undercarriage of a Panzer IV tank. Tank tracks and wheels during assembly by German war production workers at the factory. Aerial view of United States bomber aircraft in a daylight bombing raid, with bombs-away views as they target tank factories in Saxony, Germany. Ruins and rubble of the destroyed tank factory. Transport and communication centers are bombed.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047532
The French superliner 'Normandie' capsizes in Hudson River, New York and sailors watch as water is pumped out from it.

French superliner 'Normandie' capsizes in the Hudson River in New York, United States. The ocean liner lies on its side at the harbor. Sailors view the passenger ship from a scaffold. Water is pumped out of the Normandie. A measuring scale measures the level of water from the bow of liner.

Date: 1943, March 7
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056392
Crane unloads crates filled with ingots,coins and valuables from French ocean liner SS Normandie in New York.

Ingots, coins and valuables arrive from Spain in New York aboard French ocean liner, the SS Normandie. Crates filled with Spanish ingots, coins and other valuables kept in the cargo hold of the SS Normandie. Men haul trolleys loaded with crates. A crane unloads crates from ship on deck. Men load crates onto trailer. A trailer with crates moves away.

Date: 1938, June 1
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072648
82nd Airborne troopers prepare England for invasion of Normandy during World War II.

Preparations in England for the Allied invasion of France during World War II. U.S. Army 82nd Airborne soldiers with equipment as they prepare to board an aircraft. Men load into buses as a motorcycle escort leads a convoy of buses through a farmland. Men get down from the buses and walk into hangar being used as barracks. Soldiers issued new equipment including life vests, ammunition and grenades. Medical supplies are checked. A jazz band of servicemen plays and men do pushups and calisthenics. Men play handball and volleyball. They read and write letters to loved ones at home. Men sharpen, check and work on knives and rifles. They clean and oil the rifles and attach bayonets. Soldiers paint invasion stripe marks on C-47 aircraft readying it for the D-Day invasion of France.

Date: 1944, May
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048606
Secretary of State, Cordell Hull and General Omar Bradley travel through town of Carentan to Omaha beachhead

Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley travel by jeep through the town of Carentan to the Omaha beachhead in France. Houses and buildings line the streets. A man walks on the street. A statue at a small square in center of town. A wheel cart nearby the statue. The jeep arrives at a bluff overlooking the beachhead, where General Bradley points out places and things of interest. Secretary Hull dons a steel helmet. They drink some refreshments. Below them the U.S. Army has a contingent of soldiers bivouacked on the beachhead. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, July 17
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027619
United States task force on D-Day: battleships, destroyers, PT boats and landing crafts underway for beaches of Normandy

United States fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean's English Channel on D-Day during the invasion of France. Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) underway. A task force in the English Channel includes battleships, destroyers and PT boats. A PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat passes the LCI and an AP (Transport). Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVPs) underway towards beach. Guns fire from the USS Nevada. Smoke rises from the firing and smoke screen. A Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) heads for the beach. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046300