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.)
Shows the French town of Mazamet. An elderly man comes out of his house. The man passes by Medieval ruins on his way to the town. He walks in the town streets. He talks to an old woman in a house. View of Mazamet as seen above the valley. Man passes by sign showing the distance to Mazamet and Castres. Houses in the town. Man stops at a food shop.
The British 10th Royal Hussars Cavalry Regiment entering Arras, during World War One.
French troops use teams of horses to pull howitzers to crest of hill as they prepare for offensive at Monchy during World War 1. ( WWI. WW1)
Animated map showing French bombardment of the German trenches at Messiges during World War I. Next are shown actual scenes of the no man's land and trenches following the bombardment. Everything has been obliterated. (World War I. World War 1. WWI. WW1)
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