Views from ships in the Normandy invasion convoy of World War 2. American flag above a ship and barrage balloon aloft. The British naval ensign on another ship. U.S. Motor torpedo boat USS PT-541 signalling by lights. Blinker light signals by Allied ship. Allied naval warships bombarding the French coast. Troops of 2nd assault wave climb down rope nets from transport ships. Allied fighter planes strafing German flak towers, german airplanes, and railroad trains. Allied troops leaving their transport ships in landing craft. Landing Craft Tank (Rocket),aka LCT(R) firing barrages of rockets. Allied B-26 and B-24 bombers attacking ground targets. Allied troops being hampered by obstacles and some falling to German gunfire as they hit the beaches of Normandy. Survivors of sunk and damaged landing craft being helped ashore. British landing craft firing at beach houses. U.S. troops pinned under shore cliffs at Omaha Beach. Soldiers giving blood plasma to wounded. British troops leaving landing craft. Allied troops on beachhead and moving inland. U.S. troops wading ashore. Troops wading ashore from LCI(L)-537. An American M4 Sherman wading tank (with intake and exhaust funnels) and equipped with dozer blade, labeled: DT-7.
Several landing craft mechanized (LCM) outbound from shore. One has USSM 536 painted on bow. U.S. Coast Guard officers and men seen on bridge of a Landing Craft Infantry (Large). American soldiers strapped in and resting on top of cargo and jeep in LCM. Several resupply task force ships underway, with Barrage balloon overhead. Large Landing Craft Infantry, USS LCI(L)-522, headed for shore. (There is no noticeable combat because this is resupply and reinforcement activity on June 25th, after the Normandy beachhead was established.)
The city of Paris. Boats underway in the Seine River. The Eiffel tower on the river bank. View through the front of a train as a man drives it. View of buildings, train tracks, industries, clock tower, and River Seine from the train. People stand in line at the station. The train enters a tunnel.
A large crowd emerges from the Paris Bourse (Paris Stock Exchange). Rows of motorcars parked outside. The dealing room inside the Stock Exchange. A man with sign boards fixed onto his back. Men and women in the crowd. A Catholic Nun. Men near a news stand or book stall. A man pulls a cart on the road. A traffic policeman minds the traffic. A park.
Colonel Charles A Lindbergh lands in Paris after his solo trans-Atlantic flight. A large crowd at Le Bourget Field in Paris. People on the roof of a building and on the ground. A huge crowd rushes towards Lindbergh as he arrives. Men adjust large search lights illuminating the night sky.
Charles A Lindbergh's plane, Spirit of St Louis in Paris. People take a look at the plane after its epic flight from New York to Paris. The plane parked behind a fence. Nose of the aircraft.
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