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.)
U.S. Navy Admirals on Omaha Beach during Normandy Landings of World War II. Admirals Harold Rainsford Stark, Don P. Moon and John L. Hall Jr. on Omaha Beach. German coast defense position. Stark and Hall sail in a small boat. Stark and others board a landing craft.
U.S. Navy Admirals board HMS Scorpion during Normandy Landings of World War II. Admirals Harold Rainsford Stark, Don P. Moon, John L. Hall Jr. and Alan Goodrich Kirk board HMS Scorpion from a landing craft off Omaha Beach.
U.S. Navy Admirals inspect a German pillbox on Omaha Beach during Normandy Landings. Admiral Harold Rainsford Stark and other officials inspect the German pillbox. Admirals Stark, Don P. Moon, John L. Hall, Jr. and Alan Goodrich Kirk look at vessels off the coast.
U.S. Navy Admirals aboard HMS Scorpion near Omaha Beach during Normandy Landings. Admiral Harold Rainsford Stark and other board HMS Scorpion from a boat. A U.S. Navy flag flying from the ship. Many APs (Navy transport support ships) and AKs (Navy cargo ships) in the transport area. Concrete barges on the beach. Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk, Harold Rainsford Stark and John L. Hall Jr. aboard HMS Scorpion. Task Force vessels in the transport area. Stark looks through binoculars.
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