U.S. soldiers in a landing craft approaching Omaha Beach, Normandy, on D-Day, June 6, 1944, in World War II. Support ship firing rockets in background. Barrage Balloon overhead in distance. smoke rising from hillside and many troops already on the shore. View from beach as U.S. troops wade from landing craft and make their way around numerous steel obstacles placed on the beach. Two soldiers felled by German gunfire. U.S. troops of the 16th Infantry Regiment sheltering by an overhanging ledge of chalk cliff at the edge of the beach. Warships and landing craft offshore. View from base of protecting chalk cliff as more troops wade ashore. Troops huddled at base of cliff, some still wearing personal flotation gear. They begin to dig in. Soldiers preparing explosives. View from cliff base of fallen soldiers at waters edge and damaged landing craft in the water.
Israeli flag flying from passenger ship Kedmah at Marseilles port. Notice for passengers showing departure and boarding time. People up gangplank. French newspaper headlines reads terrorist activities in Israel. Ships funnel as whistle blown. People waving ship off. Jewish passengers aboard the ship. A building in Europe. Flags and crowds outside the building.
French official arrives by car to officiate at ribbon-cutting ceremony renaming the Avenue d'Orleans as Avenue du General Leclerc, in honor of Général Philippe Leclerc de Hautclocque, who formally liberated Paris, entering along this street, at the head of his French 2nd Armored Division, in 1944. The French official is greeted by a young woman wearing a sash. Members of the French 2nd Armored Division are seen holding unit flags. The official unveils the new street sign on the corner of a building decorated with tricolor bunting. A member of the French 2nd Armored Divison poses on top of a sherman tank, parked in the square. The official cuts a ribbon..
Two U.S. Army 119th Infantry soldiers crawl over hedgerows and pass through fields. (World War II period).
Camouflaged 155 millimeter Long Tom rifles firing. United States Army soldiers take fuses from a case and screw them onto nose shells. Distant view of a burning ammunition dump. Gun crew loads and fires Long Tom rifle. (World War II period).
Elements of the German 21st Panzer Division in action against Allies in Normandy, during World War 2. German Panzer III tanks moving along dirt road. Marder I anti-tank gun moving up. A German officer with binoculars, standing on Panzer V Panther tank, in established position, with shielding and fabric covering and foliage camouflage. The tank firing its 75L70 mm gun. Tank crewman throwing spent shell out rear hatch of the tank. A burning Kangaroo armored personnel carrier with Black Bull insignia and number 54, of the British 11th Armoured Division, 8th Rifle Brigade. German machine gunner firing. A battery of German nebelwerfer rocket launchers firing. Burning vehicles. Machine gun firing from atop a German tank, tracers visible. Sdkfz 251/1 Stuka Zu Fuss, Rocket launcher firing. Explosions and fire.
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