U.S. soldiers in Colleville-sur-Mer after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. An old French woman stands on a road and gives flowers to passing U.S. soldiers. She throws some on passing vehicles. A young girl gives roses to two soldiers. They put them in the buttonholes of their shirts.
U.S. troops in Colleville-sur-Mer after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Two U.S. soldiers walk with two French men. French civilians wave to U.S. Army vehicles driving past on the streets. A Frenchman hands out bottles of wine to U.S. soldiers. LSTs (Landing Ship Tanks) on Omaha Beach. A barrage balloon overhead. A jeep and another vehicle roll off an LST. Equipment on the beach.
Generalfieldmarschall Erwin Rommel, with entourage of senior German military officers, inspects German defenses on the coast of France (so-called "Atlantic Wall"). They tour heavy gun emplacements and shore obstacles. During the tour, they view a large bunker, camouflaged to look like a barn, from the air. Sliding doors are opened revealing a railroad gun. This is a 28cm K5 railway gun of battery E712, at Pointe aux Oies, nearBoulogne-sur-mer, France. Gun crew moves it out, partway on the rails, and raises the barrel to a high elevation. Views of rotating gun turrets; more railway guns, and a 60cm railway mortar called "Thor."
U.S. Task Force in Colleville-sur-Mer after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. A beachhead at Omaha Beach. M5 high speed tractors tow howitzers from LSTs (Landing Ship Tank). U.S. soldiers on the beach.
U.S. Fourth Infantry Division in Normandy, France, during World War 2. A sign on highway N.13 points to Montebourg 8.9Km and Cherbourg 34.9km, indicating their location as just north of Sainte Mere Eglise, as they advance following the Allied Normandy invasion in World War 2. A knocked out German Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) assault gun is seen on a road next to some power lines. Closeup of the Stug III with two shell holes in it. Fourth Infantry soldiers in a jeep drive past another destroyed Stug III, as they make their way through the town of Montebourg. A U.S. M10 tank destroyer is parked on the road behind. Scene shifts to a jeep displaying a red cross flag carrying medics along a road past several U.S. soldiers standing near a cemetery containing old gravestones. Another knocked out Stug III is seen. Two American soldiers, with rifles, ride through a deserted town on horses, followed by another soldier on a motorcycle. Street sign shows distance to Ravenoville as 6.8km and to La Mer as 9.7km. Closeup of one of the mounted soldiers.
Aerial view of Avranches, France on August 6, 1944 (World War 2). Aerial view of the city center of Avranches. The Basilica of Saint-Gervais of Avranche is seen (Basilique Saint-Gervais d’Avranche Place Saint-Gervais, 50300 Avranches, France). Surrounding countryside shows craters formed from aerial bombing.
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