Day time life in London at a quiet moment in World War II. British children on swings in a London park on a Sunday afternoon. Boys and girls on a seesaw of the playground. A baby seated on the grass. Children have water from community drinking taps in the park, using a shared communal drinking cup that is chained to the tap.
War correspondents covering World War 2, prepare for the D-Day Invasion. U.S. soldiers in military jeeps, ready to be boarded onto Landing Crafts, approach the dock area in South England. Soldiers on the road. Bars on the jeep bumpers designed to cut wires put up across the roads by Germans. A war correspondent sits with baggage on the road. A dog nearby. An American and a British soldier man a Control Post. They check a correspondent's baggage and bedding. Wes Hanes seated on the baggage. Pete Carroll of Boston, photographer for the Associated Press, smokes a cigarette. Behind him is a sign for the Salmon Leap Public House. They eat K-rations. Hanes on the riverside with a small castle in the background seen through the arch under the bridge. Pete Carroll stepping on stones near the river bank after washing his hands in the river.
War Correpondents covering D-Day Invasion preparations in World War II. The correspondents along with U.S. 101st Airborne Division troops aboard Landing Crafts on the South England coast. Units of the Division on board a craft. A soldier stands up and addresses the troops, imitating Hitler. Soldiers seated and standing aboard the craft.
Allied troops and war correspondents arriving at Utah Beach in Normandy, France not long after D-Day Invasion in World War 2. War correspondents Pete Carroll and Wes Hanes carry equipment across the beach. A ship grounded on the beach in the background. Allied troops, military vehicles and tanks on the beach. Bulldozers clear the road for the troops. Ships anchored and grounded at beach. Barrage balloons in the sky. Soldier drinks water. Military Police personnel dig trenches and fox holes behind a concrete wall. Banner reads: 'Green Beach HQ'. Troops and vehicles at the camp. German soldiers taken prisoner,with hands above their heads. Soldiers and war correspondents at their first Command Post in Normandy. Soldiers seated under a tree. One stands near a stream. U.S. General Joseph Collins talks to his officers. War correspondents including Larry LeSueur and Bob Landry eat and drink at the command post.
Allied ships near Bournemouth, England, during World War 2. Soldiers on Landing Ships at sea. Cliffs off the coast in the water. Soldiers seated near a U.S. flag on a ship. Battleships advance during the day and at dusk. Footage then changes to monochrome and different content: German 'buzz bombs' (V-1) fired by the Germans come flying from the sky. Artillery and machine gun fire by the British troops. British Mosquito fighter aircraft destroy buzz bombs in mid air. A buzz bomb get through and explosion is seen as it impacts. Views of rubble and wounded civilian on stretcher in England, in aftermath of a German buzz bomb attack.
Allied troops in Cherbourg after the Normandy Landings on D-Day in World War 2 . The first official ceremony in France after the Invasion of France. Allied soldiers lined up. A statue in the background. Dignitaries outside a building. U.S. General Joseph Collins presents the French tricolor flag to the Mayor of Cherbourg. Soldiers of the 7th Corps in clean uniforms for the ceremony. French people on the street. Colonel of the Signal Corps with war correspondents including Scripps-Howard Newspapers' Ernie Pyle, Burt Brandt, Cecil Cons, and John Leglinsee
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