U.S. soldiers in Cherbourg, France after the invasion of France by Allied forces during World War II. A locomotive moves into a railroad yard. The engine of the train emits smoke. U.S. soldiers and French civilians repair tracks. U.S. soldiers and French civilians drive in spikes.
U.S. soldiers in Cherbourg, France after the invasion of France by Allied forces during World War II. A U.S. soldier gives a cigarette to a French civilian in a railroad yard. French civilians repair tracks in the background. The soldiers speak to the civilians.
U.S. Paratroopers boarding C-47 aircraft, on June 5th, 1944 during World War 2. Huge naval task force underway in the English Channel. C-47s loaded with paratroopers taking off, the evening of June 5th. C-47s taking off towing gliders. Formations of C-47s and gliders passing over the Naval task force in the English Channel. Three pet dogs with troops on one of the ships.
Bridge construction on the Ledo Burma roads in South East Asia during World War II on 5 August 1944. Aerial view of the flooded and damaged roads and bridges. United States engineers watch as the worker operates crane. They instruct the bridge building. Mountains in the background. Cable is pulled over tower by the block and tackle. Cable anchors are embedded in hillside caves. View of the completed suspension bridge. American and Chinese workers clear debris using bulldozer. Allied soldiers look at the map and discuss. Soldiers move with the horses loaded with their belongings. They cross flooded stream. Aircraft in flight. Supplies are dropped by parachutes on field.
A Coast Guard crew member aboard a Large Landing Craft Infantry, LCI(L) moored in a bay in England, scans the skies with binoculars. LCI(L) 487 is one of a number of U.S. landing craft gathered in the bay. Two of the craft behind, display the American Union jack of white stars on a blue field. A barrage balloon is seen aloft. A town is nestled on a green hill in the background. Closeup of barrage balloon. View of the bay, in late afternoon, shadowed by the hill. Three barrage balloons are seen aloft. Crewmen on deck are sorting out and coiling lines, while another sharpens large compound shears with a file.
U.S. Coast Guard sailors in England along with women soldiers in uniform, during liberty ashore. They play a game of lawn bowling and the look at swans in a lake. Scenes of sailors loading boxes of rations onto ships. Several soldiers lie, chat, read books and walk on the deck area of landing crafts. An officer looks through a telescope mounted on the ship towards the carrier ships heading towards the beach. Troops loading LCVP crafts and being ferried out to waiting transports. LCI crafts loaded with Infantry soldiers, engineers, and medical corpsmen waiting to move out. Actor dramatization of troops hearing the news that the real invasion is to begin. (World War II period).
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