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United States soldiers talk to villagers in Saint-Marcouf, Normandy (WW2)
United States soldiers enter the village of Saint-Marcouf, in the Manche department in Normandy, France during World War 2. Soldiers pass by sign “Saint-Marcouf”. United States troops carry rifles. French villagers walking. Soldiers talk to an old French man and woman. Soldiers sitting on the street side of what is now known as the “Route du 5 Juin 1944”. Soldier smoking a cigarette during a break. Groups of soldiers crowd outside a damaged house. Soldiers talking to a French man. A soldier talks to children. A little girl points upwards. A statue of the Virgin Mary stands among the rubble. A statue of Jesus Christ on the Cross leaning sideways inside a church wrecked. Words by George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army says “No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan”. A “V” is superimposed over marching soldiers and a ringing Liberty Bell.
British and American C-47 tow planes and gliders during Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II
Aerial view of many USAAF Troop Carrier Command C-47 aircraft,together with gliders, parked on a field in England. The aircraft and gliders are all painted in D-Day stripes. Views on ground of C-47s taking off towing gliders behind. Formation of C-47s and gliders overhead. Views from an aircraft in a formation. Below, the Portland Bill lighthouse & directional beacon (code-named Flatbush) is seen as the formation departs the English coast. (Note: film view of Portland Bill light is reversed. Roundabout should appear to right of the lighthouse.) Closeup of a glider in the formation. View from a ship, in the English Channel, as an airplane crashes and explodes on the French coast. Aerial view of landing craft on the Normandy beach, as the formation passes overhead. View of French fields flooded by the Germans. Aerial view of parachutes from U.S. Army paratroopers who had dropped into France the night before (June 5th), but no sign of the troops themselves. Masses of gliders on the ground. View inside a glider as it cuts loose from its C-47 tow plane. View from ground as gliders cut loose and maneuver for landing. View of a glider that crashed into a German Headquarters building, and view of another landing in water. Allied gliders destroyed (some burning) and damaged by German gunfire and passive defenses (15 foot poles planted closely in landing zones). A German artillery piece concealed at the edge of a landing zone. American troops, from the gliders, marching into Saint Marcouf, France. Montage of Allied advances and gunfire. Road sign pointing to Sainte Marie-du Mont and Carentan. U.S. troops moving through French town of Sainte Marie-du Monte. U.S. troops riding in a captured German Ketenkrad tracked motorcycle.
United States 82nd and 101st Airborne Division march into Saint Marcouf, France
Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Allied soldiers fire artillery and mortars. Troops advance after D-Day invasion along a road into the city of Saint Marcouf. Men of United States 82nd and 101st Airborne Division march into villages. A sign reads ' Sainte Marie Mont', ' Montebourg' and ' Point Labbe.' Heavy artillery being fired, camouflaged gun positions as paratroopers continue to advance. Paratroopers enter the town of Carentan, past a disabled M4 Sherman tank, fitted for deep wading on Utah beach. Paratroopers ride a German armored vehicle. Another paratrooper rides a bay horse. Two men ride a captured Kettenkrad, tracked motorcycle, down the street. Vehicle tows a small trailer loaded with ammunition. Troops march the prisoners of war in the streets.
101st Airborne takes prisoners and trophies. Allied supplies and reinforcements arrive in Normandy in World War II
U.S. Army soldiers on road to Saint Marcouf, after invading Normandy in the D-Day invasion of France during World War 2. Paratroopers from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division take German prisoners. A U.S. soldier talks to small French boy and girl. The girl smiles. 101st Airborne troopers display a captured Nazi flag. Allied supplies and reinforcements coming ashore on the Normandy beachheads. German prisoners of war being escorted under guard and loaded aboard USS LCI(L) 584. Disabled USS LCI-30 and some dead U.S. soldiers on the beach.
Barrage from allied warships at shores of Normandy and allied aircraft take off for D-Day invasion of France, World War II.
Allied ships in the English Channel fire at German fortifications on French coast to soften up defenses at start of D-Day Invasion. Views of large guns on many ships firing toward shore. Discarded shells are seen on board the deck of the ship. United States gliders and C-47 aircrafts on field in Britain. Gliders being towed along the field for take off. View of U.S. Army soldiers leaving troop carriers and boarding landing crafts (LST) for Invasion of Normandy beaches. G.I.s climb down landing nets and board a landing craft. Allied bombers overhead flying toward Normandy targets. Smoke emerges from the sinking United States destroyer USS Corry (DD-463) off the shore of Utah Beach near Iles Saint-Marcouf.
United States Army 82nd Airborne Division soldiers enter Saint-Marcouf, France in World War II
82nd Airborne Division soldiers advance along a corridor beside the wall of an elevated cemetery in Saint- Marcouf, France during World War 2. They rest beside a wall. Local residents come their way. Rubble of destroyed buildings in the background. The French residents greet and converse with the American soldiers. Two Frenchmen point in a direction up and away. Remains of bombed out rural buildings. Soldier seen near a religious statue that still stands in rubble at front of a destroyed house. As the American troops proceed, they pass a sign reading, "Saint-Marcouf." A bombed out building. A triangular sign reading,"Touring-Club de France," with "Dunlop" written below it. View, from beside a wheeled cart, of troopers resting, in front of a wall in the relatively unscathed town center of Saint-Marcouf. 82nd Airborne patch clearly seen on left shoulder of some troopers. American trooper stooped down to speak with small French boy and girl in front of a house in town. Closeup of the little girl. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
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