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Paratroopers gather before D-Day (WW2)

Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division and the 502nd Infantry Regiment (502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment) arrive at an airfield for troop carriers in World War II. The troops happily wave with their helmets at the camera as they carry supplies. Some of the paratroopers’ faces are darkened. The paratroopers crowd to hear orders of the day. Some of the paratroopers’ helmets are seen with the distinctive heart shaped symbol of the 502nd Infantry Regiment. Paratroopers put on their life vests (Mae West) and chutes. The jump master gives out last minute instructions. Three paratroopers with blackened faces discuss plans. Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton bids good luck to a paratrooper chaplain and a medical corps officer before the paratroopers board their Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Paratroopers climb aboard the transport plane. General Brereton presents a paratrooper with a rabbit’s foot as a good luck charm Nose of Douglas C-47 Skytrain “That's All, Brother” (N88874) before taking off for Normandy, France on D-Day.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080756
British troops prepare landing craft before D-Day (WW2)

Major-General Thomas Gordon Rennie, Commander of the British Third Division, inspects landing craft preparations on the Solent strait at Gosport, England. Soldiers, vehicles, and supplies crowd on landing craft deck. A tank parks on landing craft deck. LCTs, destroyers, and other vessels anchored a day before D-Day. Barrage balloons flying above the ships. A crewman signals using flag semaphore above the deck. Camera moves to deck where soldiers are seen resting, playing card games, smoking, sleeping, beside vehicles as they wait for departure. A soldier reads a France guidebook. British soldiers reading books and eating and drinking. Some British troops sleep and chat under trucks.

Location: England United Kingdom
Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080759
U.S. Navy ships in the English Channel shortly before D-day during World War II.

A U.S. Navy Destroyer escorts landing craft infantry toward invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. More landing craft infantry are seen in the distance. A U.S. cargo ship, most likely an attack transport ship, is seen with the flotilla. A landing ship, dock (LSD) is shown sailing close by.

Location: English Channel United Kindgom
Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080799
Conversation between U.S. personnel of varying branches before D-day during World War II.

Clip begins showing four U.S. military personnel: A U.S. Army Brigadier General, a Navy officer, an Army soldier, and an Army officer. They are aboard a ship underway in the English Channel for the D-Day invasion of France in World War 2. The camera moves back and forth between the left two men and the right two men, before focusing on the left two men at the end. In the final moments of the clip, the Navy officer points to something off in the distance.

Location: English Channel United Kindgom
Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080800
GIs celebrate VE Day with Nazi enactment in Germany (WW2)

Four U.S. Army soldiers sitting in a field in Germany. A GI sticks his head out from behind a U.S. weapon carrier wearing a Daniel Boone fur hat as he starts a funny, humor skit mocking Nazi German forces. He marches out from behind the vehicle carrying several guns and Nazi daggers for a Nazi enactment. He stands before the group, comes to attention and gives a Nazi salute. The GI displays the various guns and daggers for the audience. He gives a bottle, a gun, a dagger and the hat to the GIs sitting on the ground. GIs smile and cavort as they celebrate VE Day or Victory in Europe Day in World War II.

Location: France
Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020431
Liberation of several French cities from German Nazi troops in World War II.

Marseilles: View of the French port. British, French and American Naval officers examine German demolition of the port town. Officers survey unfinished U-Boat pens. Toulon: Destroyed German ships in the harbor. Bologne: German coastal guns in ruins. Destroyed artillery. Le Havre: Destroyed buildings and ruins in the town. Unfinished German U-Boat pens. Destroyed artillery. Brest: Destroyed buildings and ruins. German soldiers wave a white flag of surrender on September 18, 1944. U.S, Army Major General. W.M. Robertson , 2nd Infantry Division discusses the surrender with German Colonel E. Pietzonka of the 7th German Parachute Regiment. German soldiers assemble in the main square of the city during the surrender operation.

Location: France
Date: 1944, September
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020655
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