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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.

Location: France
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045255
Wright Brothers activities from first flight in 1903 to later demonstrations in 1908

A film on the development of air power of the United States. A still photograph of Orville Wright flying the first aircraft on 17 December 1903 at Kill Devil Hills in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Two men turn propellers and start the engines of Wright "A" aircraft in France. Catapult launching tower behind the aircraft. Spectators in stands during the first public demonstration of Wright Brothers airplane, at Le Mans, France. The takeoff and the flight of Wright Brothers "A" aircraft. Orville Wright and U.S. Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm seated in Wright "A" aircraft at Fort Myer in Virginia. Orville Wright and Lt. Lahm in Wright "A" aircraft in flight over Fort Myer.

Location: France
Date: 1908
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051058
German film giving their perspective on Allied invasion of Europe in World War II

Film opens with slate showing date: 6 June 1944, in World War 2. German newspapers report that combined forces of Britain, and the Soviet Union finally decided to launch their invasion of Europe. Headlines say "Invasion launched at Moscow's orders." A map highlights cities along the coast of France. Formations of Allied warplanes shown in flight overhead. Light signals seen in the dark as German forces send information about the attacks. Closeups of German military men communicating by radio and telegraph. Defense forces are called to battle stations by alarms and announcements. Responding soldiers grab rifles from a rack and rush through tunnels in their fortifications. They climb to man weapons atop their bunkers. Artillery shells being raised by hoists to them from bunkers below. Searchlights scan the dark sky for Allied aircraft, and anti-aircraft guns fire in the night, including a 2 cm Flakvierling 38, four-barreled gun. German forces firing on Allied paratroopers. German sailors aboard destroyers and fast attack "E" boats fire at Allied warships. Daylight scenes of Allied ships and German shore batteries firing at them. U.S. Porter-Class, and Benham-class destroyers firing at land targets in France. German soldiers loading and firing Atlantic Wall coastal defense guns. An allied ship explodes off the coast. More views of German coastal guns firing and another Allied ship hit and exploding. More coastal gunfire.

Location: France
Date: 1944, June
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059370
German paratroopers fight the Allied Forces in a French forest during World War II.

German troops fight the Allied Forces in France during World War II. A map of the Western Front of France. Soldiers of French Commander Joseph Darnand's Vichy French Militia lined up. Captured members of the French underground are marched off. German officers check travel documents on a French highway. A farmhouse is set ablaze in a search for underground members and 'invasion' currency circulated by the Allies. German Field Marshal Günther von Kluge confers with his staff. A German antiaircraft downs an Allied airplane. German paratroopers in fight with the Allied Forces in a forest. Allied ships off a coast.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061105
Officers of the 94th Aero Squadron standing beside different airplanes during World War I

United States Army Air Service (USAAS) 94th Aero Squadron in Toul, France during World War I. April 1918 - Commanding Officer 94th Aero Pursuit Squadron Major John W.F.M. Huffer and French-American pilot Major Raoul Lufbery talk with AEF weekly newspaper "Stars and Stripes" editor Major S. P Adams. Captain David M. Peterson stands beside a Nieuport 28c.1 fighter aircraft,with its "Hat in Ring" insignia on the side. 1Lt. Alan F. Winslow stands beside Lt Rickenbacker's Nieuport #12 and starts walking. Jump to November, 1918 - the remaining officers of the 94th Aero Squadron reunite, including Captain James A. Meissner (C.O.147th Aero), 1st Lt Joseph Eastman, Captains Eddie Rickenbacker (now C.O. 94th Aero) and Reed Chambers, and 1st Lt Thorne Taylor (all 94th) standing beside Rickenbacker's SPAD S.XIII #1 parked in front of a hangar at Foucaucourt Aerodrome, France, November 1918. (WWI,WW1, World War One, First World War)

Location: France
Date: 1918, April
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072183
Free French 2nd Armored Division on deck of a ship sailing to Cherbourg (WW2)

The Free French 2nd Armored Division sails on the English Channel to France during World War 2. View of the English Channel from a vessel carrying Free French troops to France. Soldiers on board sit on deck, some playing card games. Soldiers playing card games on deck. Close shot of Sgt. Julian Andre Arden. A closer view of Sgt. Arden’s military decorations, including four Croix de Guerre.

Location: France
Date: 1944, July 31
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079349
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