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Modern buildings and calm beaches in Normandy 20 years after invasion.

A view of beaches on Normandy where twenty years ago the Allied Forces had landed. Children play on tanks. Troops firing and bombing. Children play on the grounds where Allied Forces activities were taking place. Rubble and shattered buildings are replaced by modern buildings. A view of cemetery on 20th anniversary of D-Day invasion of France.

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1964, June 6
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041870
Allied ship convoys and preparations underway in English Channel before Normandy invasion during World War 2

Anchor being raised on an allied military ship. Ships at sea. Floating piers of concrete and steel being towed across channel. Barrage balloons over ships. Allied Troops on landing craft. Wake of a Coast Guard cutter. Allied bombers in the air heading toward targets in France. Soldiers seated and standing on landing craft, and quietly contemplating the task ahead. Antiaircraft guns firing at German warplane. German warplane destroyed and parachuted pilot descending. Ships in convoy heading for coast of France. Views of religious services being led by chaplains on the decks of Allied ships, before the D-Day invasion of France in the Normandy region.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031066
Army Chorus performs in front of Army hospital patients, soldiers, and other people in France during World War II.

Report on African American soldiers of 923rd Aviation engineers in France during World War 2. It is the 1st tactical Air Force serving in France. An African American contingent of the Army Chorus performs, singing the gospel spiritual "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho." Soldiers and hospital patients watch and listen, from what appears to be an area on or near the grounds of the Hotel Continental in Vittel, France, where the 23rd General Hospital had established as of October 1944. Hospital patient soldiers seen among the crowd, and a sign that says "23rd General Hospital Special Service." Other soldiers and civilians also watch, including some from the balconies and windows of the adjacent buildings near the Continental Hotel.

Location: Vittel France
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028480
U.S. B-24 aircraft drop bombs on Bicy airfield in Orleans, France during World War II.

Allied air attacks against France during World War II. A map of France shows the location of Orleans. Aerial view of bombs being released by U.S. Army 8th Air Forces B-24 Liberator aircraft. The bombs drop and strike Bicy airfield, Orleans, France, on May 23, 1944. Billows of smoke rise from the airfield. Bombs being dropped on revetments. Smoke and fire occur.

Location: Orleans France
Date: 1944, May 23
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077898
United States 9th Air Force in France; Army airmen in chow line and serving food.

The United States 9th Air Force airmen prepare to eat food in France. A chow line in progress. Tables lined in front of a tent. Containers of steaming food on the tables. The soldiers dish out food for themselves. Trees in the background. Two men in a field. A P-51 flies overhead. The plane does acrobatics in the distance. Pilots of the 354th Fighter Group give an aerial demonstration over their base at the new strip (A-2) just inside the Normandy beachhead in July '44. The town of Criqueville, France is nearby. (World War II period).

Location: Criqueville France
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033409
Pilot of U.S. Army Air Forces 354th Fighter Group, lassos, and rides a horse, bareback, in France, during World War II

U.S. Army Air Forces personnel of the 354th Fighter Group, the Pioneer Mustang Fighter Group, with several horses on a field in France during World War 2. A pilot, in uniform,tries unsuccessfully to mount a small horse, bareback. Later, after lassoing a large horse,with help from others, he approaches and slowly gains its confidence enough to slip a training bridle on and mount it. He then expertly rides the horse bareback, even managing to ride at a canter. (The field is near the town of Criqueville, France, close to the Normandy Beachhead.)

Location: Criqueville France
Date: 1944, July
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033411
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