RAF (Royal Air Force) Saltby airfield in England during World War II. The airfield is covered with grounded planes and gliders as seen from an aircraft in flight.
U.S. soldiers at RAF (Royal Air Force) Saltby airfield in England during World War II. The soldiers fold machine gun bullet belts, clean 60mm mortars and sharpen machetes. U.S. paratroopers pack equipment.
U.S. paratroopers at RAF (Royal Air Force) Saltby airfield in England during World War II. The paratroopers play volleyball at the airfield.
Loading of a U.S. LST (Landing Ship, Tank) at Falmouth, England during World War II. An M3 half track pulls a trailer aboard the LST at the dock. An M-8 Light Armored Car moves up the ramp of the LST. U.S. jeeps move along a road.
Landing Ship, Tank No. 532, The USS Chase County, at Polgwidden (AKA Trebah) on the Helford River, near Falmouth, Cornwall, England during World War 2. The LST moves up the river at Trebah. The USS Chase County is seen docked and ready for troops and equipment to embark. (Note: Later this same day, Allied troops and equipment did embark on the USS Chase County for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. However, they spent the next 5 very uncomfortable days afloat in bad weather that actually delayed the operation.)
U.S. soldiers of the 87th Chemical Battalion (mortar) make field modifications by installing wire cutters on army jeeps, at the D-Day Marshalling Area Camp in Shiphay, Torquay, (Devon) England during World War 2. U.S. soldier paints an angle iron vertical post (wire cutter) fastened on bumper of a jeep. He pastes U.S. flag on the windshield and writes OK in chalk on the front bumper. Line of modified jeeps travel along road after completing check ups. Soldiers use hack saws to cut pieces of metal and hand drills to put holes in bumpers where angle iron wire cutters will be fastened. They use files to take sharp edges off the angle irons. A soldier slips washers and bolts on an angle iron and tightens them with an adjustable wrench. (Note: These angle iron vertical rods, mounted on a vehicle front bumper, were meant to cut wires that might be strung across roads to injure or kill otherwise unprotected drivers of open vehicles, such as Jeeps.)
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