U.S. troops in a beach area for the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. A wounded man drinks water aboard a landing craft with many wounded men lying in the background. DUKWs (six-wheel-drive amphibious truck) loaded with U.S. troops on the beach. A rhino barge loaded with trucks and vehicles passes. Old ships sunk in water act as breakwater.
Nazi German officials attend wedding of Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein (Hans Georg Otto Hermann Fegelein) to Margarethe "Gretl" Braun, sister of Eva Braun, at the Mirabell Palace (Mirabellplatz 4, 5020 Salzburg, Austria) in Salzburg, Austria during World War II. Interiors of room in the Palace where civil ceremony is held. Bride and Groom and Nazi officials arrive at the wedding reception. Head of SS (Schutzstaffel) Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, and bride and groom seated. Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels addresses the group gathered. Hermann Fegelein, a favored pupil of Himmler, and Gretl Braun sign a marriage document. Martin Bormann looks on. Himmler and others sign the document. Himmler presents two silver cups to the bride and groom.
Heinrich Himmler toasts German Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein, his liaison officer on Hitler's personal staff, and Eva Braun's sister, Gretl, following the civil ceremony wedding of Fegelein and Braun in Salzburg at the Palace of Mirabell. The couple are greeted by other military officers. Gretl Braun Fegelein is presented flowers. As they are exiting the room the couple stops and talks to Martin Bormann. The couple gets into a car and drive away, bound for a wedding reception.
Testing of concrete Mulberry Caisson at Portsmouth harbor in England. A warehouse and a Caisson at the dock. Sailors and Chief )Project Officers ( CPOs) work on hausers, climb ladder and secure cable hausers. A tug tows the Caisson from the dock. These structures had the code name Phoenix
Construction of a concrete Caisson at Portsmouth harbor in England. These wartime project "Phoenix" caissons, were to be used to form instant breakwaters for the invasion Harbors (code-named "Mulberry" harbors). Men work at the construction site with cranes in background. A man on the deck of a ship, with a pair of binoculars around his neck. (World War II period).
A concrete caisson being towed by a tugboat off Portsmouth in England. This is one of the wartime project "Phoenix" caissons to be used in building instant harbors (code-named "Mulberry harbors") for Allied ships supporting the Normandy invasion in World War II. A truck can be seen on the caisson, as well as an antiaircraft gun mounted on a platform at the top of the caisson.
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