U.S. Airborne units prepare for D-Day Normandy invasion of France in World War 2. Two U.S.Army paratroopers of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (101st Airborne Division) smoke cigarettes as they prepare to board a C-47 Aircraft that will take them to airdrop over Normandy, France. C-47s, painted with white stripes,are seen on the RAF Greenham Common airfield, in England. A column of paratroopers in battle gear, marches from a large hangar, past quonset huts, and a parked glider. Two dogs run along ahead of them. Many groups of paratroopers march across the grass field toward parked C-47 transport aircraft. Several doff their helmets and smile for the camera, as they pass. Officers reads instructions to their respective groups, as they stand beside their airplanes. One sits in the jump door of C-47 tail number 42-100686. The troopers assist one another with their gear, and don life vests.
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.
American paratroopers depart England for the invasion of Normandy, France (D-Day), during World War 2. U.S. paratroopers of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, help each other with their gear, as they stand beside a C-47 aircraft, on RAF Greenham airfield, England. A crew chief cleans the window of the C-47. Two paratroopers, with camouflage painted faces, converse. Three air crewmen, two in leather jackets, pose by the airplane. One, a Lieutenant,holds an oxygen mask and carries a 45 automatic in a shoulder holster. View from inside the cabin, as paratroopers climb aboard the C-47. Lieutenant General Louis H. Brereton, Commander, 9th Air Force, smiles as he offers something to a paratrooper who reaches out from the airplane for it. Brereton laughs and reaches out to shake the paratrooper's hand. The General salutes as the aircraft taxis away and joins a long line of C-47s preparing to take off. Ground crewmen wave to the departing aircraft. The aircraft begin taking off at dusk with their wingtip lights illuminated, bound for the coast of Normandy, France.
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. Four LCIs ( Landing Craft Infantry ) underway. A dim coastline in the background. Sea gulls fly overhead. A British cruiser of the Country Class underway and smoke rises from its stacks. A steel barge being loaded down with heavy gear. An LCT ( Landing Craft Tank ) and an LCM ( Landing Craft Mechanized ) near Normandy beachhead as barrage balloons fly overhead. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank ) on the beach as it unloads heavy equipment. Rough sea breaks over the wreckage at the beach. A cargo ship anchored off the coast of Normandy with a rough sea in the foreground.
Allied fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean towards Normandy, France during World War II. A wrecked LCI ( Landing Craft Infantry ) fleet underway at sea in the background and a rough sea in the foreground. A large group of amphibious craft tied up alongside a mother ship. An LCI underway with bow completely out of water. A Coast Guard patrol boat underway in water. A Task Force off the coast of Normandy with barrage balloons flying overhead. An LST ( Landing Ship Tank) and a patrol boat underway at sea with an LCVP ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel ) underway in the foreground. A French boat near Normandy beach. A steel pier built in water. A Liberty ship with two LCTs ( Landing Craft Tanks) tied up along side. A sunken ship in the background. A city on the beach as barrage balloons fly overhead. The LST ( Landing ship Tank ) with its bow up on the beach as barrage balloons fly overhead.
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.
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