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German perspective on Allied attack and German defensive actions during the Allied invasion of Normandy, France.

German newsreel about the D-Day Invasion of Normandy. English narration overlaid by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. German people read bulletin boards and newspapers describing the invasion. A map shows location of England and Germany. Information of assault broadcast in Germany by German radio stations. Announcers shown relaying information at switchboards. Alarm bells ring and German troops in bunkers grab rifles and stand ready to proceed. German antiaircraft guns and artillery fired at incoming Allied aircraft and and explosions seen at night. Allied Airborne troops incoming, according to narration, as nighttime artillery barrage continues. Naval units near mined waters. Germans soldiers in Atlantic Wall fortifications fire artillery and machine guns. Closeup views of German soldier faces, looking determined. Heavy artillery are fired at Allied troop units. Allied naval ships as seen from German perspective on shore in early morning light on D-Day. Shells are loaded into artillery and railroad guns and fired on the Allied warships from German gun emplacements and fortifications on the coast of France. British troops land on shore near the River Orne at the Normandy village of Ouistreham. Heavy bombardment from both sides. Germans examine Allied Landing Craft on the beach. Commentator says the British troops in them were annihilated or taken prisoner. Camouflaged German tanks move into position and fire on invading Allied ground troops. German forces pass wrecked gliders and an Allied parachute hung up in a tree. Allied Airborne troops are shown taken as prisoners by German forces and marched. Pan view of many Allied gliders, some crashed in a large field. British gliders seen. Close views of crashed gliders. German forces roll an intact Allied jeep out of a crashed glider and drive it away. Captured prisoner Canadian troops seen. Shoulder patch of one reads "North Nova Scotia Highlanders", and on another reads "1 Canadian Parachute Battalion Airborne". Interrogation of captured Canadian troops is seen. German holds a prisoner's "Soldier's Pay book". (World War II period).

Location: France
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 9 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046324
D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II.

Allied Invasion of Normandy, France during World War 2. British Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber in flight. Allied paratroopers of 6th British,and American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions jumping from aircraft. Allied troops in gliders being towed across the English Channel. A British pilot in cockpit of aircraft towing a glider. Several gliders descending over French farm fields.Formations of Martin B-26 bombers overhead. Allied Navy warships underway. Scenes on decks of the warships. Navy heavy guns being loaded and fired from Battleships and cruisers. American B-26s and British Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bombers in flight overhead. British spitfire fighter aircraft overhead. U.S. B-26 in D-day stripes. Bombs exploding on German enemy targets. Navy ships bombarding shore. Allied infantry descending rope nets from troop ships. B-17 bombers aloft.Gunner in a B-17. British warship in camouflage bombarding French coast. British spitfire zooming low over landing craft. Allied American and British soldiers in landing craft going ashore at several different Normandy beaches. London, with streets quiet, in early morning, June 6, 1944. Journalists assemble at British Ministry, and a U.S. Army Colonel tells them the invasion at Normandy is underway. The reporters run from the room to file their stories. People reading about it in their newspapers in various cities of the world.

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060097
An aircraft taxis past Vietnamese and USAF airplanes, helicopters and gliders at the Binh Thuy Air Base in Vietnam.

An orientation film for United States Air Force personnel assigned to Southeast Asia. USAF airmen at the Binh Thuy Air Base near the city of Can Tho in Vietnam. A sign board on a gate reads 'Huan Luyen'. Vietnamese airmen lined up inside the compound. They march and salute. Officers guide them and supervise. An aircraft taxis past U.S. and Vietnamese Air Force airplanes and helicopters parked on a runway. A Vietnamese aircraft with the Vietnamese Air Force roundel on the plane. Several USAF Douglas C-47 Skytrains or Dakotas parked on the runway. USAF gliders parked with a guard nearby. A military jeep nearby and a sandbag barricade on the runway. Air Policemen (APs) in a military jeep. 'Air Police' written on the wind shield. An AP mans a machine gun in the back seat. The jeep crosses more jeeps and personnel. Airmen cross a medical van parked outside a dispensary. The dispensary sign outside. (Vietnam War period).

Location: Vietnam
Date: 1967, January 11
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021606
Model of the first glider at Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The Wright Brothers National Memorial (1000 N Croatan Hwy, Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948) at Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. An accurate model of the first glider of Wilbur and Orville Wright. The quarter's building used as hanger and workshop of the brothers. Control of the plane by horizontal and vertical rudders. Various record-breaking flights by Wright brothers from these flyers.

Location: Kitty Hawk North Carolina USA
Date: 1972, April 28
Duration: 4 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036862
187th Glider Infantry soldiers in Sulac, Batangas Philippines during World War 2

A bulldozer levels a road near ravine in Sulac in Batangas province of Philippines. Soldiers of 187th Glider Infantry of United States 11th Airborne Division bypass unleveled ground. They use a narrow ledge to advance.

Location: Batangas Philippines
Date: 1945, April 8
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038672
Aviator Russell Holderman sets a world record for looping-the-loop in a glider at Leroy

Aviator Russell Holderman sets a world record for looping-the-loop in a glider at Leroy. He executes thirty-five turns in his motor less craft in seven minutes and forty-five seconds. Huge crowd gathers to watch him. A man uses binoculars to watch him. Russell Holderman lands after setting the world record.

Location: Leroy New York USA
Date: 1933, September 20
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041406
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