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General Dwight D Eisenhower confers with Grand Legion of Honor in North Africa

General Henri Giraud of France and United states General Dwight D Eisenhower inspect Allied troops in North Africa. General Giraud confers Grand Legion of Honor on General Eisenhower as a cameraman records the event. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, May 29
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058676
U.S. Paratroopers preparing, and then departing from England, to airdrop over Normandy during World War II

An airfield in England, filled with Waco CG-4A Gliders and their C-47 tow planes, in readiness for the invasion of Normandy, France, in World War 2. U.S. Army Air Forces intelligence officer briefing C-47 and Glider pilots and crews about conditions expected in the drop zones of Normandy before D-Day in World War 2. Brigadier General James Gavin,Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, giving a final briefing to his paratroopers. A military chaplain holding final religious services for troops. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, visiting paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division, as they prepare to depart on the night of June 5, 1944. U.S.Army paratroopers boarding their C-47 aircraft to depart for Normandy on June 5, 1944. Several are seen tying parapacks of heavy equipment to the aircraft for separate release. Paratroopers of 101st Airborne Division, loading equipment aboard a CG-4A Glider, and getting final briefing from their pilot. Other 101st Airborne troopers don personal equipment on the ramp near their C-47 airplane, which displays paint-striped wings and fuselage. Jumpmaster makes final check of his troopers. The paratroopers boarding their aircraft with heavy loads of equipment. C-47 aircraft take off towing their gliders.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058844
Lieutenant General Brereton with U.S. paratroopers leaving RAF Greenham Common, England to invade Normandy in World War II

U.S. paratroopers depart England, the evening before D-day, to be airdropped over Normandy France, in World War 2. U.S. Lieutenant General Louis H. Brereton, Commander, 9th Air Force, converses with two other officers as they stand by a staff car on RAF Greenham Common airfield, England. He waves a riding crop as he steps into the staff car, which carries three stars on a bumper plate. Scene shifts to the flight line where General Brereton is smoking a cigarette as he converses with American and British officers, standing beside C-47 aircraft number 43-15296. Brereton chats with two paratroopers of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, and shakes hands with one. The C-47, named, "That's All...Brother," taxis forward, along with several others, toward the active runway. Many aircraft are then seen taking off, one at a time, in the dusk, with their wingtip lights on.

Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058880
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean as a U.S. Coast Guard officer looks through binoculars during World War II.

Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. A signal man takes signals out of a flag bag. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank ) convoy underway with the bow of an LST in the foreground. Two officers on the deck of the LST. A man looks through a pair of binoculars. A British LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry ) underway at sea. Men on the bridge of a Coast Guard patrol boat. The flag of the U.S. flies from the mast of a patrol boat with a radar in the background. A Coast Guard officer on the bridge of the patrol boat looks through a pair of binoculars. A Task Force underway in the Atlantic with the bow of a patrol boat in the foreground. British patrol boats tied up alongside a ship with a Coast Guard cutter. The Coast Guard patrol boat and a British patrol boat tied up. A patrol boat getting underway with a cargo ship in the background. An LCVP ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel ) in the foreground.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058884
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean as a U.S. Coast Guard officer speaks into a microphone during World War II.

Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. A Coast Guards officer speaks into a microphone. Two officers on the bridge of a cutter as they talk. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank ) with an LCT ( Landing Craft Tank ) tied alongside. Equipment on the deck of an LCI. A patrol boat with an LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry ) tied up alongside. The patrol boat pulls up along side other patrol boats. The bows of the patrol boats with Liberty ships anchored in the background. A patrol boat underway. Another patrol boat passes in the background. American and Coast Guard flag fly aboard a patrol boat.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058885
American soldiers board LCVPs at pier in Weymouth, county of Dorset, England, prior to D-Day, during World War II

Landing craft ferry Allied troops from pier in English port as they prepare for invasion of France during World War II. Two United States Coastguardsmen pose with members of British Women's Royal Navy Services (WRENS). Some British soldiers seated in a park with civilians on benches in the background. LCVPs ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) tied up at the pier in Weymouth, Dorset. American soldiers are assisted by U.S. Coastguardsmen as they board LCVPs, which pull away from the pier as they are filled (ferrying troops out to transport ships). Several Landing Craft Infantry (Large) are seen in the port, including LCI(L)s 494, 92, and 490. View of Weymouth from a boat flying a green flag, in the bay.

Date: 1944, June 4
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058887